Ⓥ 2.1 Creative Placemaking
Tracks
Track 1
Monday, June 24, 2024 |
1:30 PM - 3:00 PM |
Plaza Auditorium |
Overview
This session will be livestreamed from Brisbane for virtual delegates
Speaker
Dr Matthew Riley
Senior Lecturer
RMIT University
SP: Playing to be in Dja Dja Wurrung Country: A Learning Program Creating Locative Games
1:30 PM - 1:45 PMAbstract
This paper examines the design and delivery of a learning program with First Nations students, their teachers, community, and non-Indigenous educators that created experimental locative games in the Dja Dja Wurrung region of Bendigo in Victoria, Australia. We discuss the programs experiential, place-based and relational ways of learning and how these were enacted through a reflexive approach embedded in local community and cultural engagement and participation. The games are analyzed in relation to how players connected to Country through playing in Country, demonstrating how their situated and embodied interactions invited a multisensorial engagement with place to support social and physical well-being. The program is critically reflected on as a case study for a two-way learning approach supporting young First Nations people’s connection to, and expression of Country through locative games as place-making experiences.
Biography
Dr Matthew Riley is a Senior Lecturer at RMIT University. His practice and scholarship in experimental and speculative design, art practice and critical forms of play has been recognised in exhibitions, events and conferences in Japan, United Kingdom, Portugal, France, Austria, Finland and Hong Kong. Riley’s creative practice in playable art, urban play, mixed reality games and interactive experiences has been shared in venues, organisations and events including Playable City, Tarra Warra Museum of Art, ACMI, Freeplay, Monash University Museum of Art and Experimenta. With Uyen Nguyen and Max Piantoni, he is a co-founder of the experimental play collective YomeciPlay.
Mrs Uyen Nguyen
Lecturer, PhD Candidate
RMIT University
Co-presenter
Biography
Uyen Nguyen is animator, designer and lecturer at RMIT University who develops sound-based works, public art, interactive installations, experimental games and urban play. As a PhD candidate Nguyen is researching how play can be harnessed as a design strategy for interaction with sound. Collaborating with leading artists, game makers, creative producers, research partners and cultural organisations, her gallery-based and site-specific works have been shared in national and international venues, events and exhibitions including Experimenta, Tarra Warra Museum of Art, DiGRA, Freeplay and ACMI. With Matthew Riley and Max Piantoni, she is a co-founder of the experimental play design collective YomeciPlay.
Dr Anastasia Tyurina
Senior Lecturer, Academic Lead Learning and Teaching (Design)
Queensland University of Technology
PIC: Spirit of the Maranoa
1:45 PM - 2:00 PMAbstract
The action of drawing or mark making has been used for tens of thousands of years to trace human perceptions of surrounding environments, to make sense of or make evident what is physically there, and to imagine other geographical or historical perspectives. The human need to link, connect and find relations to things, even though they may be disparate, are core to this project’s investigations. Such an analogical application ties together the phenomena that are both visible and invisible to the human eye, a way to express ourselves in relation to familiar and unfamiliar experiences. Drawing is a way of seeing these interconnections through the methodology of chance, such as the technique of frottage which reveals a surface that can be interpreted physically, historically, and culturally. The action of embedding marks across a paper surface is a visceral, physical, and gestural method using both haptic and auditory senses. It allows the drawer to absorb the echoes, sounds, and tactile experiences from their environs.
Frottage was therefore used by Yimbaya Maranoa (Arts Collective) formerly known as the Remapping Mitchell Arts Collective in a collaborative session during its camping residency at Mt Moffatt in 2023. The area is a profoundly significant place for Gunggari People and is part of the Carnarvon Range, headwaters of the Maranoa River and a recharge site for the Great Artesian Basin.
Frottage was therefore used by Yimbaya Maranoa (Arts Collective) formerly known as the Remapping Mitchell Arts Collective in a collaborative session during its camping residency at Mt Moffatt in 2023. The area is a profoundly significant place for Gunggari People and is part of the Carnarvon Range, headwaters of the Maranoa River and a recharge site for the Great Artesian Basin.
Biography
Dr Anastasia Tyurina is a new media artist and designer who works with emerging technologies, visual communication, scientific imaging, photography, and creative coding to create immersive interactive and visual-led digital experiences that promote social change, better health, and well-being. Anastasia is currently the Academic Lead for Learning and Teaching and Senior Lecturer in Visual Communication at Queensland University of Technology.
Dr Jude Taggart Roberts
Co-facilitator
Yimbaya Maranoa (Arts Collective)
Co-presenter
Biography
Jude Taggart Roberts earned a 2015 Doctorate in Visual Art, researching drawing and print methods to explore the histories of unseen inland watersheds like the Great Artesian Basin. For two decades, she lived and worked in the Maranoa, later moving to Brisbane to tutor drawing and print media. Currently, Jude creates art in regional areas, connecting with river communities to enhance understanding and appreciation of inland water environments.
Ms Helen Hardess
Member
Griffith University
Co-presenter
Biography
Helen Hardess is a Meanjin-based interdisciplinary visual artist. With a strong interest in materiality, assemblages of objects, stop motion animation, and acoustic ecology, her spatial practice works at the intersections of other-than-human agencies, the “age of humans”, and colonial legacies. In 2022 she completed a Bachelor of Visual Art (Honours) at Queensland College of Art.
Mrs Vernessa Fien
Co-facilitator
Yimbaya Maranoa (Arts Collective)
Panelist
Biography
Vernessa Fien is based in the Maranoa and descendant of both Gunggari and Bidjara. She is a creative who facilitates a women’s cultural group, Wandering Spirits. Art is a significant part of the Aboriginal culture, and Vernessa is passionate about using this to help promote the importance of understanding and acknowledging First Nations people and custodians of cultural heritage.
Dr Troy Innocent
RMIT Future Play Lab
P: Play About Place: Expanding the Impact of Indigenous-led Creative Placemaking After COVID
2:00 PM - 2:45 PMAbstract
This panel explores new approaches to placemaking through the development of urban play projects led by Indigenous practices that connect with and entangle knowledge with place. Cases studies discuss affordable and engaging experiences that activate existing public spaces, a typology and methodology for analysing the impacts of urban play, and a comparative study of urban play in Narrm/Melbourne and Ōtautahi/Christchurch. Impacts of these projects include First Peoples storytelling experiences, city activation post-pandemic, community engagement, and the potential of ‘creative placemaking’ to make cities more inclusive and resilient post-pandemic.
Biography
Dr Innocent connects people and place through urban play. Working with the city as a material, his work traverses the analog and digital spaces we live in. He calls his approach to speculative design ‘reworlding’ as it reimagines the creative, linguistic, cultural, social diversity of our world. Innocent is creator of 64 Ways of Being, an innovative augmented reality platform for listening, playing and exploring cities through new eyes, and leads a three-year study on post-pandemic impacts of creative placemaking.
Dr Hugh Davies
RMIT University
Panelist
Biography
Dr Hugh Davies is an artist, curator, and researcher. Working across digital media, academic scholarship, and creative practice, he explores the social, cultural, and political dimensions of games and play in the Asia Pacific region. Davies recently exhibited a series of North Asian divination games at Hong Kong’s Centre for Heritage, Art and Textiles and curated a collection of videogames at the inaugural exhibition of Hong Kong’s M+ Museum of Visual Culture. Davies has co-authored two books: Understanding Games and Game Cultures (2021) and Exploring Minecraft, Ethnographies of Play (2020). He is currently a researcher in Chinese Platform Studies at RMIT in Melbourne, Australia, and is president of the Chinese Digital Games Research Association (CDiGRA).
Mrs Uyen Nguyen
Lecturer, PhD Candidate
RMIT University
Co-presenter
Biography
Uyen Nguyen is animator, designer and lecturer at RMIT University who develops sound-based works, public art, interactive installations, experimental games and urban play. As a PhD candidate Nguyen is researching how play can be harnessed as a design strategy for interaction with sound. Collaborating with leading artists, game makers, creative producers, research partners and cultural organisations, her gallery-based and site-specific works have been shared in national and international venues, events and exhibitions including Experimenta, Tarra Warra Museum of Art, DiGRA, Freeplay and ACMI. With Matthew Riley and Max Piantoni, she is a co-founder of the experimental play design collective YomeciPlay.
Dr Matthew Riley
Senior Lecturer
RMIT University
Panelist
Biography
Dr Matthew Riley is a Senior Lecturer at RMIT University. His practice and scholarship in experimental and speculative design, art practice and critical forms of play has been recognised in exhibitions, events and conferences in Japan, United Kingdom, Portugal, France, Austria, Finland and Hong Kong. Riley’s creative practice in playable art, urban play, mixed reality games and interactive experiences has been shared in venues, organisations and events including Playable City, Tarra Warra Museum of Art, ACMI, Freeplay, Monash University Museum of Art and Experimenta. With Uyen Nguyen and Max Piantoni, he is a co-founder of the experimental play collective YomeciPlay.
Aramiha Harwood
Co-presenter
Biography
Dr Aramiha Harwood is a Māori Ngāpuhi writer, researcher and gamer who grew up in Country Victoria. He publishes Tabletop games (through Mana Press) with a focus on indigenous concepts of mana and narrative storytelling. His research has involved a diverse range of topics: identity theory and agency, cultural precincts, international education and student wellbeing, Māori diaspora, and the role of Place and Gaming in Indigenous knowledge/s. He is a Research Fellow in the Play About Place project within the RMIT future play lab.
Session chair
Leah Barclay
Discipline Lead of Design
University of the Sunshine Coast
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