The City after Dark: The Governance and Lived Experience of Urban Night-Time Culture. The stimulation of a 'night-time economy' can deliver to Australian cities great cultural, social and economic benefits, or result in social disruption and disputation, assaults, and serious injuries that drain public criminal justice and health resources. By increasing understanding of the experience, production and regulation of urban night-time cultures in a major metropolitan centre, this innovative Project ....The City after Dark: The Governance and Lived Experience of Urban Night-Time Culture. The stimulation of a 'night-time economy' can deliver to Australian cities great cultural, social and economic benefits, or result in social disruption and disputation, assaults, and serious injuries that drain public criminal justice and health resources. By increasing understanding of the experience, production and regulation of urban night-time cultures in a major metropolitan centre, this innovative Project will contribute to the development of urban policies attuned to specific Australian circumstances. It will promote the long-term cultural, social and economic sustainability of diverse urban after-dark leisure spaces, and the safety and protection both of leisure participants and neighbouring areas and communities.Read moreRead less
Culture Circuits: Exploring the International Networks and Institutions Shaping Contemporary Cultural Policy. This comparative Project will analyse the international export and exchange of cultural policy discourses and personnel, and their local consequences. The Project will provide a sophisticated understanding of cultural policy formation and the primary relations between culture, governance and nation shaping its development and orientation in Australia. In analysing significant external in ....Culture Circuits: Exploring the International Networks and Institutions Shaping Contemporary Cultural Policy. This comparative Project will analyse the international export and exchange of cultural policy discourses and personnel, and their local consequences. The Project will provide a sophisticated understanding of cultural policy formation and the primary relations between culture, governance and nation shaping its development and orientation in Australia. In analysing significant external influences on Australian cultural development, the Project will aid in the creation and maintenance of a distinctive national culture, so enabling the formulation of cultural policy that is attuned to specific Australian circumstances and better able to play a productive and strategic role in Australia's social and economic development.
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Creative Tropical City: Mapping Darwin's Creative Industries. This research will improve our knowledge and understanding of the creative industries in Darwin. It will provide a strong evidence base for the development of policy options for growing the creative industries in Darwin. And it will interrogate national and international creative industry policy frameworks for their applicability to Darwin.
Places in Transition: A Case Study of Cultural Planning in an Australian City. The overwhelming majority of local governments in Australia are developing cultural plans and placemaking strategies. Despite claims that cultural planning can achieve an ever-expanding range of social, aesthetic, economic and cultural objectives, there has been little systematic academic research investigating these claims, their framing assumptions, or the shifting relationship between place, social change, culture, ....Places in Transition: A Case Study of Cultural Planning in an Australian City. The overwhelming majority of local governments in Australia are developing cultural plans and placemaking strategies. Despite claims that cultural planning can achieve an ever-expanding range of social, aesthetic, economic and cultural objectives, there has been little systematic academic research investigating these claims, their framing assumptions, or the shifting relationship between place, social change, culture, art and policy within specific localities. Through a combination of policy analysis, case study and ethnographic research, this innovative interdisciplinary Project will explore cultural planning at both micro and macro levels. The Project contributes to international debates concerning the formation of cultural policy priorities and practices.Read moreRead less
Bridging worlds, linking cultures: an electronic planning tool for the Western Sydney region. This project aims to address, theoretically and practically, goals and demands for cultural planning in the information age. It will develop principles and procedures for using the immense power of digital resources within a framework that is aware of the richness and diversity of societies, communities and cultures, integrating subjective and objective data holistically into local government planning p ....Bridging worlds, linking cultures: an electronic planning tool for the Western Sydney region. This project aims to address, theoretically and practically, goals and demands for cultural planning in the information age. It will develop principles and procedures for using the immense power of digital resources within a framework that is aware of the richness and diversity of societies, communities and cultures, integrating subjective and objective data holistically into local government planning processes. It will use Geographical Information Systems (GIS) digital infrastructure to develop new information architecture, new interface designs and new strategies to interrogate and use available databases and information systems relevant to regional strategic cultural planning in Greater Western Sydney.Read moreRead less
Creative Suburbia: A Critical Evaluation of the Scope for Creative Cultural Development in Australia's Suburban and Peri Urban Communities. Creative industries enterprises are increasingly important to Australia in a global knowledge-based economy. They account for 5.5% of national income, and recent work has shown they are 50% bigger than first estimated. But much research and policy assumes that these enterprises only take place in inner urban environments. This project will examine the work ....Creative Suburbia: A Critical Evaluation of the Scope for Creative Cultural Development in Australia's Suburban and Peri Urban Communities. Creative industries enterprises are increasingly important to Australia in a global knowledge-based economy. They account for 5.5% of national income, and recent work has shown they are 50% bigger than first estimated. But much research and policy assumes that these enterprises only take place in inner urban environments. This project will examine the work patterns of creative enterprise workers in the outer suburbs of Brisbane and Melbourne, investigating how these enterprises work outside of inner city zones. Such work will enable a more empirically grounded understanding of creative enterprise dynamics, so that the creative and economic potential of these activities are better realised.Read moreRead less