World Creativity SummitNewcastle UK

30 Oct-2 Nov 2009

Professor Elizabeth Grierson

RMIT University

Melbourne Australia

Sustainable

creativecapabilities

The Research ProjectThe Research Project

“Creative researchers work with imagination and insight, engaging knowledge of the histories of their field, as well as skills and technologies of practice as primary research tools. As they imagine, construct, read, write or perform, they work creatively with materials, technologies or bodies (abstract or physical), situating creative moments within the genealogies of practice, and revealing something about the world and themselves in the process. As they construct discourses of creativity

they are constructed by those same discourses” (Grierson & Brearley, 2009, p.18)

The Research ProjectThe Research Project

Working with creative arts researchers; Identifying discourses of creativity;. Telling stories of doctorate journeys; Working across arts & industry (art / health);Working across arts & industry (art / health); Identifying artists’ ways of working and

“being” as creative knowledge workers; Identifying “sustainable creative capabilities”

for a globalised world economy.

Looking acrossthe terrain of

recent researchI have done

Books 2007, 2008, 2009

Creative Arts Research: Narratives of methodologies and practices

Elizabeth Grierson & Laura BrearleyRotterdam: Sense Publishers, forthcoming 2009

Thinking through Practice: Art as research in the academy

Lesley Duxbury, Elizabeth Grierson & Dianne Waite RMIT University, 2007 online, 2008 hard copy.

Ways of Researching in Creative Arts

Ways of Framing Creative Research;

Ways of Knowing & Being; Ways of Looking & Listening; Ways of Acting & Reflecting;

Ways of Analysing; Ways of Constructing;

Ways of Proposing; Ways of Performing;

Ways of Learning from Creative Research

Ways of connecting

to build this project

Communities of Practice - Doctorate journeys

Sharing experiences

• Working together with reciprocal rights and responsibilities

• Discursive & trans-disciplinary projects in creative practice

• Collaborative models

• Sustainable practices to keep creative ways of knowing and being productively alive

Looking forwardsustainable arts -

sustainable creativity

Political Contexts of Globalisation

and arts

Sustainable Citiesthrough creative arts practices

Institutional roles

ROLE OF ACADEMYand ARTS

Diverse ways of researchingArt academy in Seoul Korea

Kaywon High School of ArtsKorea

Drawing studio RMIT University

Melbourne

New Zealand

Taiwan

Spatial identities

Hong Kongurban markets

Shanghai China

Australia

Walking the terraincreative solutions

innovationssustainability

Risks & Challenges

The project seeks creative arts practitioner-researchers’ input -

sharing narratives of doctorate journeys, research projects between arts and industry,

sustainable economic, social and cultural lives through the arts.

contribute your case studies

Sustained practicesSustainable practices

Systematic Questioning

Articulation of creativity through practice

Sustaining creativity

Beyond the horizon

We stream into the unfinished, the unbegun, the possible…..