2016 ACUADS Conference: Adaptation
29 – 30 September 2016
QUT Creative Industries Faculty, Brisbane
Art and design schools across Australia navigate a range of cultural and economic forces. The pedagogical and research agendas of the University environment create one set of pressures that art schools need to adapt to – along with concomitant financial and administrative constraints. External industry structures and commercial aims create another set of compulsions. The art and design school is continually asked to define itself against and adapt to the conditions of its environment, a pressure that often runs against the studio’s spirit of enquiry and value as a pedagogical space. In the context of these complex forces, what is the morphology of the contemporary art and design school?
Call for Papers
The 2016 ACUADS Conference will consider adaptation of various qualities and extents, as entities, processes and approaches that are conditional, grafted, contoured, nested or composite.
We invite papers from academics, art teachers and postgraduate students on topics relating to adaptation, interconnection, hybridity, survival, symbiosis, and habitat as they affect the theory, practice and pedagogy of contemporary art and design. Papers and roundtable proposals are sought that address topics including, but not limited to:
Survival practices: considering art, design and the anthropocene
Arranged marriages: amalgamations and mergers
Praxical models: connecting theory, practice, exegesis
Critical studio models: the contemporary art market and the academy
Methodologies: hybrid processes in the studio, lab and workshop
Disciplined and undisciplined approaches: connecting practices, fields, methodologies, audiences.
Common spaces: teaching and practice
In addition to the above-mentioned themes and topics, papers are welcomed from HDR students that relate to their specific research projects and curiosities.
Abstract submissions should comprise 2 pages as follows:
Paper title, author, affiliation, phone, email, brief biographical details (100 words). Please indicate if you are willing to act as a referee of abstracts and whether you wish to have the paper refereed. Please indicate if you are eligible for a Postgraduate Scholarship (see below).
Paper title, 250 words, up to 5 keywords.
Please submit to Charles Robb via acuads2016submissions@qut.edu.au by Friday 6 May 2016.
Postgraduate Scholarships
Three scholarships of $500, funded by ACUADS, are available for postgraduate students. Eligible students (full-time HDR, <$40,000 annual income) may put funds towards registration, accommodation and/or travels costs. Recipients will be selected from abstracts marked as eligible.
Conference website and further information
https://www.ivvy.com/event/ACUADS/
http://acuads.com.au/conference/2016-conference/