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ItemIn the Time of Refuge: A Collection of Writings and Reflections on Art, Disaster and Communities(RUPC, 2021)This timely book offers an expanded understanding of the importance of the arts and communication in dealing with disasters. It is based on Refuge a pioneering program of artist-led events held at Arts House (Melbourne) from 2016-2021 concerned with the intersection of climate change, emergency services and community. Even before the COVID pandemic the financial cost of extreme weather events alone was projected to exceed $39 AUD billion per year in 2050 (Deloitte 2017; Glasser 2019). Imagining a disaster is recognized as a key part in developing responses and mitigating consequences. But building such an imaginary is challenging: communities need to be able to “imagine the unimaginable” in order to prepare for disasters (Fraser et al 2019). Experts in emergency services also recognize that in complex multicultural societies conventional communication strategies are ridden with distortion effects. In the Time of Refuge addresses the imminent urban challenges arising from climate change by focusing on the events and actors involved in Refuge but also by ruminating on the wider changes in the political landscape and the different philosophical ways for approaching the question of time.
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ItemWhite night: city as event(Research Unit in Public Cultures, 2015)The nature of public events are changing as cities evolve. As people move more and more around the world, and information is circulating in increasingly complex patterns and rapid rhythms, the horizons of our urban landscape are also undergoing radical transformation. Urban illumination projects, which have become popular in cities around the world over the last decade, are a particularly visible sign of the ways in which new technologies and forms of public action are being combined to produce temporary transformations of urban space. In this project we seek to examine the impact of a major public event — White Night — in the City of Melbourne. Through this event we witness a significant shift in the location and duration of artistic events as they move to inhabit the urban fabric. But the event is also conditioned by a central expectation that the public can engage and interact with art, and with each other. Is the quality of the art or the public experience more important in defining the event? Or does framing the question in oppositional terms miss the point?
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ItemMulticulturalism and Governance: Evaluating Arts Policies and Engaging Cultural Citizenship: 4 Year Project Report(Research Unit for Public Cultures, The University of Melbourne, 2015)
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ItemUncertainty(Routledge, 2024-01-30)
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ItemThe Plimsoll Inquiry: A Report(Tasmanian College of the Arts, 2015)
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ItemConnecting Audiences: A Manual for Large Screens(The Research Unit in Public Cultures, The University of Melbourne in association with Federation Square, Art Center Nabi & Australia Council, 2015-06)