Australian Council of
University Art & Design Schools
36th Annual Conference
8th November 2024
In the spirit of reconciliation ACUADS acknowledges the Traditional Custodians of country throughout Australia and their connections to land, sea and community.
Art and Design serve as catalysts for revitalisation by stimulating economic development, engaging communities and preserving culture, renewing physical spaces, fostering innovation, promoting social cohesion, and supporting environmental sustainability. Art and Design are also imperative in connecting us with one another and the world around us.
The 2024 ACUADS Conference embraces the theme of Regeneration, Repair, and Care:
Regeneration reflects our capacity for resilience and adaptation, inspiring inventive and transformative practices.
Repair underscores the importance of addressing systemic issues, rebuilding communities, and fostering stronger connections within our institutions and societies.
Care highlights the significance of creating nurturing and inclusive environments and interactions, prioritising the well-being of all involved.
2024 Conference Convenors
Dr Janelle Evans, University of Melbourne
Professor Mitchell Whitelaw, The Australian National University
Associate Professor Veronika Kelly, University of South Australia
Keynote Speaker
Pro Vice-Chancellor Indigenous Education, UNSW
Christine Evans is a Wiradjuri woman with cultural connection to the Mudgee region of NSW and is Pro Vice-Chancellor Indigenous Education at the UNSW. Chris specialises in the representation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander knowledges in school and higher education curriculum using culturally responsive models of engagement. A former secondary visual arts teacher, Chris taught in NSW state and independent schools for over ten years before teaching on visual arts education and Aboriginal education programs at UTS. Chris uses Indigenous research methodologies and arts-based practices in her research that focuses on Indigenous representation in educational processes.
Chris is a member of the Board of the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, chairs the MCA Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Advisory Group and is represented on the Indigenous advisory groups of several cultural institutions and organisations including the National Library of Australia. She has been an active member of local and regional Aboriginal Education Consultative Group for many years.
[Image used with permission from Tiffany Garvey and Melitta Hogarth]
Join us on Zoom – please use the passcodes provided if necessary.
For assistance joining the sessions please email admin@acuads.com.au
Opening and Keynote
11:00am – 12:00pm AcDT
Passcode: 372082
Conference Opening
Acknowledgement of Country
Keynote speaker – Associate Professor Christine Evans
BREAK
12:00 – 12:15PM AcDT
Session 1, Stream A
12:15 – 1:45pm AcDT
Reflections
Passcode: 014607
Transformed Indigenous spaces to contested colonial places through toponyms (Roundtable)
(Re) Imagining Regional Futures: Designing With Community in a Changing Climate
Trying Cultural Identity: A Practice-based Acculturation Journey
More-than-critique
Session 1, Stream B
12:15 – 1:45pm AcDT
Pedagogies
Passcode: 059458
Seven minutes to an authentic response: How generative writing practice can both decentre curriculum and resist the generic seductions of AI generated text.
How can a teaching artist utilise visual arts practice to give voice to the experience of Third Culture Kids, to promote empathy and an understanding of the complex factors that influence their transnational identity formation and wellbeing?
Co-creative regeneration of a school community nature space: using participative pedagogies to support the care and well-being of adolescent boys.
Teaching innovation and accreditation as regenerative drivers for curriculum development: lessons from a Master of Architecture program
BREAK
1:45 – 2:15PM AcDT
Session 2, Stream A
2:15 – 3:45pm AcDT
Practices
Passcode: 144732
From D.I.Y. Aesthetics to Do-It-Together Ethos: Care Ethics in Feminist Art Practice
Cultivating connivance with landscape: deepening care through immersive creative arts research
Repair as an act of care in participatory design research
Exploring Regeneration through Design for Social Impact
Caring for our future selves: Reflections on a caring design research methodology
Session 2, Stream B
2:15 – 3:45pm AcDT
Bodies
Passcode: 827005
Endurance Performances via Sculptural Objects: Crip Materiality as Care for the Disabled Artist.
Material Comfort, Embodied Care in Queer Community
Provocations: design and the socio-materialities of dynamic climates in the everyday
Socially Engaged Design: From Care for the Environment to Pluriversal Politics
BREAK
3:45 – 4:00PM AEDT
CLOSING AND PLENARY
4:00 – 4:30PM AcDT
Passcode: 483402
Plenary and Closing remarks
ACUADS Awards announcements
Acknowledgements