Lightning Talks
Blue Mountains City Council (BMCC) Household Sustainability Toolkit
BMCC’s Household Sustainability Toolkit prototype provides an interactive dialogue with practical mechanisms, encompassing the technological, environmental, and cultural considerations to enable change at community level.
Writing about Albums: Ed Kuepper’s Honey Steel’s Gold
John will discuss the creative decisions he made writing this book, which is “that close” to being sent to the commissioning editor at Bloomsbury. Literature or music journalism? Popular music history or personal essay? And what about the structure?
Garage Graphix and the Untold Stories of Western Sydney
This talk centres on a current research project that explores the digital archives of Garage Graphix; a community-based art, design, and screen-printing organisation that was based in Mt Druitt between 1981 and 1998.
Climate Custodianship for Change (with Madison Shakespeare, Caelli Brooker)
This presentation reflects on the process and outcomes of an Indigenousled creative workshop. This collaborative project explores the nexus between First Nation Custodianship of Climate and cultural activism.
Climate Custodianship for Change (with Madison Shakespeare, Caelli Brooker)
Through the lens of networked media environments we ask: what are the conditions needed for an app to support belonging and identity for children and family networks in Out-of-Home Care?
Skateparks: Trace and Culture
This study explores both anti-social and pro-social aspects of skateparks, where traces of use reveal the complex relationships that occur with and within these youth orientated spaces.
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From Living Labs to Lively Labs
The Living Lab started with storytelling for sustainability, documenting stories on WSU campuses such as South Vineyard Creek, involving students, researchers, practitioners. In the follow-up iteration, Lively Labs, Vincent Tay and I are collaborating with scientist Alexie Papanicolaou and a team of researchers and lecturers working with students to communicate a range of research projects.
Fiji’s Pacific Fusion
This collection, Fiji’s Pacific Fusion, is an integration of our unique Pacific culture in Fiji. This line also showcases the plus size category that is dedicated to the beautiful men and women of the Pacific. Decorated, accessorised and hand-painted with the vibrant colours of the Pacific’s flora and fauna, deep blue sea to turquoise lagoons and the lush green vegetation of the coconut palms to celebrate Pacific Fusion.
The Writing Zone
The Writing Zone is a mentoring program for emerging writers and arts workers from Western Sydney, hosted by WSRC. Melinda will share Ghost Cities, a video celebrating the TWZ 2021 anthology launch, and reflect on the program’s ambitions and successes.
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Writers in Parramatta, the Sydney Review of Books and Writing Gender: Public Engagement @ WSRC
TKate will present a snapshot of three public programs housed in the Writing & Society Research Centre. All are deepening community engagement with writing and literature, while contributing noisily to local and national debates about the social power of writing.