Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning UNESCO Observatory

9.00 - 9.20 am

Welcome to Country

Carolyn Briggs is the authorised Elder of the Boonerwrung Elders Land Council Aboriginal Corporation and works closely with her own and other Aboriginal communities. Her achievements include establishing Australia's first Aboriginal childcare centre and being Steering Convenor of the South Eastern Lands Council. As a youth and welfare officer Carolyn has worked on Community Development for the State of Victoria and developed employment strategies for indigenous employment in the State Government sector (a Department of Premiers & Cabinet appointment). She is a former director of La Trobe University's Aboriginal Tertiary Support Unit, Bendigo and in Bendigo also set up the Djawurrung Cultural Community Centre. Carolyn has served as a mediator with the Equal Opportunities Commission and was seconded to work with the Federal Attorney-General as head researcher for Victoria on the Muirhead recommendations to the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Deaths in Custody. Currently Caroline works as a restaurateur and land management consultant.

9.30 - 10.00 am

Keynote Presentation

Camilla Ella - The Women's Circus

Topic: The Women's Circus is a vibrant community organisation which has developed a reputation for engaging women who have survived sexual abuse, assisting them to reclaim their bodies and to build self esteem. Through a circus training program opportunities for women include circus skills, artistic literacy, performance and non-performance skills. Up to 200 women train with Women's Circus across the year. The Women's Circus Outreach program provides an avenue for promoting circus as a model for social change and in the last 3 years has engaged with over 40 other community partners who are also focused on well-being, diversity and community participation.

10.00 - 11.15 am

Education and the Arts

James Hardie Theatre
Chair: Robynne Bett. Murdoch University  WA.

• Lois Peeler: An arts program for Aboriginal youth "using the arts and cultural practices in new and fruitful ways."
• Michelle Stevens: Kindred Circus Project. Ten Pitjantjatjara children went to Christmas Island to do a collaborative circus show called "Rare Earth" with the Christmas Island children. Presentation of documentary.
• Jan Deans: Building reciprocal and respectful relationships through the arts.
• Dr Pam James and Susan Barclay: Art can be Wallpaper when its not the Main Game: the place and use of art collection in hospitals.

11.45 - 1.00 pm

Arts, Health Care and Social Therapy Session One

James Hardie Theatre
Chair: Andrea Lewis. Disability in the Arts, Diasadvantage in the Arts (DADAA ) WA.

• Bronwyn Platten, Kathryn Yates & Michail Kagioglou: 'Pathways' An innovative approach to the use of participatory art practice in Primary Care.
• Rénald Navilly: From Little Things big Things Grow.
• Sarah Woodland: "Moving On: Drama with adult survivors of childhood trauma and abuse."
• Dr. Barbara Davis: The art part of Indigenous Health Promotion: a hermeneutic reflection.
• Ursula Dutkiewicz: Circus art and community adds a colourful balance to life.

2.00 - 3.30 pm

Arts, Health Care and Social Therapy Session Two

James Hardie Theatre
Chair: Jan Deans. Senior Lecturer, Graduate School of Education and Director, Research and Demonstration Early Learning Centre. The University of Melbourne, VIC.

• Geoff Webb: Examples of practice from VicHealth's funded arts & health work over the past ten years and the challenges we face in measuring the outcomes.
• Robynne Bett, Ralph Raulker, Chris Skinner: Emotional Intelligence in the workplace. What we can learn from the performing arts.
• Julie Gross McAdam: The role the arts can play in the wellbeing of older individuals living in the community and in care.
• Emma Watkins: "An artistic approach to mental health recovery with young people."
• Rosa McManamey, Jan Sparkes: Arts, Health, Community Resilience and healing: Responding to natural disaster.

3.30 - 4.15 pm

Public Space and the Built Environment Session One

James Hardie Theatre
Chair: Dr Martin Fowler. Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning, The University of Melbourne, VIC.

• Professor Steffen Lehmann: Interdisciplinary models for collaboration between artists and architects:empowering community, inspiring urban renewal.
• Kevin Ndungu, Robert Chittleborough, Angelique Brett, Eleanor Fenton, Fiona Lew, Nayan Puri, Matt Choot, Michael McManus: The Gichocho project – Design of a health, skills training, arts and cultural education facility for community empowerment and enhancing opportunities for women and girls in semi-rural Kenya.
• Jo Swift: Kids Undercover Creative Solutions for Youth Homelessness – the Bungalow program.

9.30 - 10.00 am

Keynote Presentation

Maud Clark AO CEO and Artistic Director of Somebodys Daughter Theatre Company Inc.

Topic: The partnership between arts, health and education and their success in forging a unique approach known as "the creative model" due to the driving leadership of the arts.

10.00 - 11.15 am

Cross Cultural Arts Programs

Chair: Lindy Joubert. Director UNESCO Observatory, Senior Lecturer Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning, The University of Melbourne, VIC. 

• Michelle Chiller and Lisa Parris: The Torch Project and the reigniting model and its impact on individuals and organisations across communities.
• Dr Pamela Zeplin: Art or therapy? A trojan horse in the art school gallery.
• Kisnaphol Wattanawanyoo: Art as a mechanism of youth and community development in Thailand.
• Robert Brown: Coming Closer: Engaging children with Indigenous stories and storytellers.
• Kate Ferguson: Participatory process in the design and construction of health facilities, Papua New Guinea.

11.45 - 1.15 pm

Strategy and Methodology Session One

Chair: Dr Pamela Zeplin. Head: Art and Design History and Theory, South Australian School of Art, University of South Australia.

• Dr Margaret Kelaher: Developing a theoretical framework for understanding arts and health.
• Dr Steve Curry Ethics in the CADS Evaluation: Opportunity Not Limitation.
• Dr Roslyn Foskey: Beyond Staging Data: Interactive theatre in Mature Men Matter as a Multi-metaphorical and multidimensional Learning Environment.
• Katherine Moline: A reconceptualisation of health policy from the perspective of strategic design.
• Andrea Lewis & Natalie Georgeff: The Disseminate.
• Victoria Johnson: CADS project's engagement with the Torch project - perspectives on research process and outcomes.

2.00 - 2.30 pm

Strategy and Methodology Session Two

Chair: Dr Pamela Zeplin

• Raoul Craemer: What can Economics bring to the Arts and Community Health Debate?
• Eliza Muldoon: Promoting Participatory Arts-Re-envisioning structures that support arts practices with non-professional artists.

2.30 - 4.00 pm

Public Space and the Built Environment Session Two

Chair: Professor Steffen Lehmann. Chair: School of Architecture and the Built Environment, The University of Newcastle NSW.

• Dr Martin Fowler: Magical Limits and Burning Questions.
• Naomi Berman: Therapeutic Passage – Point Nepean Quarantine Station and the Identification of a Diaspora Community.
• Yash Srivastava and Ken Blair: Caring for the (He)Art of Seniors Communities: the facilitating role of architects in creating culturally active communities.
• Roger Alsop & Darren Steffen: The Diversionary Space Project at Melbourne's Royal Park Hospital; simple pure sound waveforms to sonically excite a specific space in the short-term dementia ward of the RMH.
• Merrin Phoebe Eirth Victorian College of the Arts VCA, Celia Roach VCA/Royal Melbourne Hospital, Jan Sharrock Royal Melbourne Hospital, Chris Cochius Victorian Tapestry Workshop: The Healing Threads Project: the Tapestry Image - Research and Respond.