The Point Cook Pop Up School event was held in September 2018 and was a day for the community to celebrate local knowledge and learning. Our video of the event captures some of the highlights.
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PACT: Portable Art Connections Toolkit
Portable Art Connections Toolkit (PACT) is a kit for creating a collective experience of making stories and artwork about the things that matter to you and your community.
PACT provides tools for building creative agency and ethical storytelling, wrapped up in a hi-vis kitbag. It packages a starter set of props with a detailed user manual, prompting people to work together to make and share stories about things that are important to them. You can follow the workshop plan from the manual, or adapt it to use whatever elements are useful to your group and situation.
The user manual includes introductory information and a sequence of four workshops. There is an overview page for each of the four sessions, which expands out into a set of activities and discussion prompts to help activate the kit and facilitate the group’s collective experience. Each PACT artkit comes with six print copies of the user manual included and is suitable for use suits use with up to five participants, plus a facilitator. If you plan on working with a larger group, add more kits.
PACT aims to make visible how the practice of creativity is an enabler of personal, social, and collective agency. It was designed for young people aged 12 – 21 who have an interest in art or creative production of any kind, but you can use it with older or younger people too.
We’re giving away 200 artkits free of charge (including postage within Australia), so pop over to our website to find out more & request a kit! We’re hoping people will also use the website as a space to share images or blog about things they’ve done using the kit.
Vist us: www.pactup.org
Request the PACT artkit or start a conversation using the contact form on our About page.
The Story of the Disability Pride Mural in Footscray
Public Pedagogies Institute Conference 2018
November 22-23
Footscray, Melbourne
Social Activism and Public Pedagogies
Thursday November 22, 1.30-3.00pm
The Disability Pride mural project was led by Larissa MacFarlane and created by a large team of contributing artists. Barely a week after hundreds of hours were spent putting up the mural, the creators were shocked to find it had been removed.
Presenters Debbie Qadri and Larissa MacFarlane will tell the extraordinary story of the Disability Pride Mural in Footscray (the first of its kind in Australia), of its accidental removal . . . days later, and subsequent re-instatement!
This presentation will explore the meanings of the mural for the artists involved in making it, as well as how the art creates public pedagogy reflecting diverse experiences of disability.
View the Mural:
If you get a chance while at the conference or on your way, please take a look at the mural. It is located between Footscray Station and the Campus at:
Telstra Exchange building, 201 Nicholosn St Footscray
Google Map
For more information about the mural see:
https://melbournefringe.com.au/event/disability-pride-is-back/
Continuing the theme of social activism this presentation will be followed by:
Activist Art as Embodied Public Pedagogy for Social Change
by Shalin Krieger
Social Movement as Public Pedagogy: The Case of Adivasis
by Alankrita Chhikara
This session will include both a local and international focus around activist art, social movements, and public spaces.
This session is part of:
Public Pedagogies Institute Conference 2018
November 22-23
Footscray, Melbourne
Activist Public Pedagogies for the Post-Truth Moment
We are very excited to share the abstract for Jake Burdick’s Keynote presentation for the 2018 Public Pedagogies Institute conference:
Beneath Reason:
Activist Public Pedagogies for the Post-Truth Moment
The contemporary cultural and political landscape across the globe has been characterized as post-truth, a term that signifies both the ascendance of ideology-as-knowledge and the outright dismissal of any claims stemming from intellectualism, inquiry, or empirical evidence that does not align with the dominant position. As such, spaces of formal education, which trade heavily in these currencies of knowledge, have lost much of their effectiveness as sites of questioning and resistance. In this talk, I provide a brief overview of the post-truth moment and its seduction of educational spaces, and to respond, I discuss approaches to activist public pedagogies and historical knowledge traditions that have operated beyond reason-based forms of critique and protest. Bringing these concepts into dialogue, I discuss how we might reconceptualize activism via its affective, embodied, imaginative, and aesthetic approaches to ethical living and cultural difference.
Jake Burdick will be the Keynote speaker on Day One of the Public Pedagogies Institute Conference on November 22, 2018.
Transmissions—knowledges and public spaces
Public Pedagogies Institute Conference 2018
November 22-23, Footscray, Melbourne
Point Cook Pop Up School
Coming up on September 1, 2018 our next Pop Up School will take place in Point Cook!
Our Pop Up Schools are created in the communities in which they take place to present and share the unique learning and teaching that exists in each location.
This event will showcase many exhibitions of learning and teaching, from the past, present and future from Point Cooks’ community members. The days activities will include music, dancing, story telling, games and much more.
No bookings required. All welcome!
From 12.00 onwards there will be stalls and workshops to visit and performances to watch.
Follow Facebook @wynlearnfestival for more details.
- DATE
- TIME
- LOCATION
- Basketball Court opposite Target Car Park, Point Cook Town Centre, Off Murnong St, Point Cook
- COST
- FREE
Towards a Footscray Curriculum
The Public Pedagogies Institute has published a new book based on the research undertaken as part of the Footscray Pop Up School.
The publication is available for free download and will be of interest to educators, researchers, as well as the local community. Print copies will be made available upon request.
Towards a Footscray Curriculum
Karen Charman, Mary Dixon, Robyn Bellingham,
Mathew Thomas, Jayson Cooper
Public Pedagogies Institute, 2017
“The knowledge of a community often goes unrecognized.”
Werribee Pop Up School
Recently the Public Pedagogies Institute held a Pop Up School in Station Place Werribee on September 1, 2017. This event showcased the breadth of knowledge in the Werribee Community. The Institute was invited to curate this event as the key activity to launch the annual Wyndham Learning Festival.
Like its predecessor the Footscray Pop Up School, the Werribee project has also consisted of interviews with members of the Werribee community around the theme of significant knowledge in Werribee. These interviews will continue into the new year and will be published as ‘Toward a Werribee Curriculum.’
Discussion is now under way for a similar project in Point Cook in 2018. If you are interested in a Pop Up School in your suburb or town please contact the Public Pedagogies Institute.
Art, Science and Figuring the World
The Public Pedagogies Institute is very excited to announce the Keynote Speaker for our 2017 conference will be Margaret Wertheim, of the Crochet Coral Reef project and the
Institute For Figuring.
Margaret Wertheim is an internationally noted writer, artist and curator whose work focuses on relations between science and the wider cultural landscape. The author of six books including “The Pearly Gates of Cyberspace,” a history of space from Dante to the Internet, and “Physics on the Fringe,” she has written for the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Washington Post, Aeon and many others. With her twin sister Christine she founded the Institute For Figuring, a Los Angeles-based practice devoted to the aesthetic and poetic dimensions of science and mathematics. (theiff.org.) Through the IFF, she has created exhibitions for the Hayward Gallery (London), Science Gallery (Dublin), MASS MoCA (MA), and Art Center College of Design (Los Angeles). The Wertheim sisters’ Crochet Coral Reef project is the largest participatory art & science endeavor in the world, and has been shown at the Andy Warhol Museum (Pittsburgh), Museum of Arts and Design (New York), Deutsches Museum (Munich), the Smithsonian (Washington D.C.), and elsewhere. Margaret’s reef TED talk has been viewed more than a million times and translated into 22 languages. In 2016, she was granted the AxS Award from the Pasadena Arts Council, for contributions to art and science, and the American Association of Physics Teachers award for public science communication – the first woman to given this honor in 10 years. She has been a Discovery Fellow at the University of Southern California (2012) and a Vice Chancellor’s Fellow at the University of Melbourne (2015), and is currently a Phd. candidate at Deakin University.
Margaret’s presentation will be based on the following:
Art, Science and Figuring the World
Welsh writer Merrily Harpur has written that: “the duty of artists everywhere is to enchant the conceptual landscape.” It may not be the duty of scientists to produce conceptual enchantment, but in this talk Margaret Wertheim will propose that this is one of the goals scientists and mathematicians achieve. In 2003, Wertheim founded the Institute For Figuring, a Los Angeles-based enterprise with her artist-twin-sister Christine that’s dedicated to “the poetic and aesthetic dimensions of science and mathematics.” The IFF can be conceived of as a “play tank” – a new kind of practice for exploring creative public engagement with topics ranging from geometry and topology, to physics, computation, and biological form. Here, Wertheim will discuss how imaginative speculative play practices can provide insight into the realms of math and science for citizens of all ages. From a worldwide project to model coral reefs using the art of crochet, to building giant fractals from tens of thousands of brightly colored business cards, Wertheim’s work offers experiences for playing with ideas.
Find out more:
Crochet Coral Reef
The Institute for Figuring
Public Pedagogies Institute Conference
Turning Learning Upside Down
Footscray, Melbourne
November 23 – 24 , 2017
Footscray Pop Up School
The Public Pedagogies Institute invites everyone to join us for a free one day event:
Footscray Pop Up School
Maddern Square, Footscray
Saturday, November 19th, 12pm – 4pm
Click here to view the Program
Click here to learn more about our Performers and Participants
The inaugural Footscray Pop Up School is a free community event that celebrates the various ways of learning and teaching from the people of Footscray. This local event will feature performances, workshops and exhibitions by L2R Next Gen, 100 Story Building, the Footscray Historic Society and much more!
Presented by the Public Pedagogies Institute, the Footscray Pop Up School event was established to research how knowledge is perceived and valued geographically in Footscray. “We consider the stories and memories from the Footscray community members to be very valuable in recognising the knowledge the community holds and how that knowledge can be shared with others”, says researcher and president of the Public Pedagogies Institute, Dr Karen Charman.
Suitable for all ages, this event will inform and engage participants through a series of interactive activities.
Get your groove on with a dance workshop hosted by local stars L2R Next Gen, try your hand at the lost game of Trugo, and engage in quirky conversations with the Weekly Ticket Guy to hear how he can turn dialogue into songs.
Contribute to the history of Footscray by bringing along your school photographs to the Footscray Historic Society – you can see how time has changed when you compare your school photos with those from the 19th century.
Release your creative writing genius inside a small grove of trees with Footscray’s 100 Story Building. Their animated facilitators will work with you to make ridiculous street signs to take over the square!
“100 Story Building’s programs open up and demystify the creative process, celebrating initial ideas, rough drafts and finished products in equal measure. In our workshops mistakes become opportunities for stories to take new directions. We engage our participants in their learning by handing over creative control, and providing a platform for them to share their ideas.” – Lachlann Carter, CEO and Program Director at 100 Story Building.
Throughout the day, there is a Memory Space for interested attendees to be interviewed about their understanding of knowledge, learning and teaching in Footscray. The anecdotes collected will be recorded and contributed towards the research project, Educational Consciousness, conducted by Deakin University.
Bring along a picnic, your family, and enjoy a day filled with fun. There is something for everyone!
On Saturday 19th November at Maddern Square – come learn a skill, take home a piece of knowledge and contribute to the future of education in Footscray!
What: Footscray Pop Up School
Date: Saturday 19th November 2016
Time: 12pm – 4pm
Where: Maddern Square, 2 Chambers Street FOOTSCRAY
Hashtag: #footscraypopupschool
All welcome!
PROGRAM
STAGE
12.00 PM
Instrumental music by David Wells
12.25 PM
Spoken Word Performances on Loss and Grief by local artists Gabriela Georges, Steve Smart and Marilyn King
12.50 PM
Bản Sắc Tôi (My Own Self) song by The New Age live
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1.00 PM
Official Launch: Welcome to County & Smoking Ceremony by Aunty Carolyn Briggs
1.30 PM
L2R Next Gen Dance Performance and Workshop
2.20 PM
Hip Hop music by Ayour Paul aka ASF
2.35 PM
OUT REACH – Benchmark Crew & Motley Hip Hop Performance and Rap Workshop
3.10 PM
Afrovasion Afrobeat/Dancehall Performance and Workshop
WORKSHOPS + ACTIVITIES
12.00 PM – 2.00 PM
Footscray Trugo Club Revival
12.00 PM – 2.00 PM
Roving Interview-Thematic Songs Performance by the Weekly Ticket guy, David Wells
1.00 PM – 3.00 PM
Prep to Grad 2 students from St. John’s Catholic Primary School facilitating a Discovery World!
2.00 PM – 4.00 PM
Ownlife Skateboard Workshop
12PM – 4PM
A series of children’s drop-in activities by 100 Story Building which includes making your own street sign, mapping the galaxy, soapbox and their amazing Comics vending machine!
12.00 PM – 4.00 PM
Knitting & Craft drop-in workshops by local women from the Footscray Library Knitting Group
12.00 PM – 4.00 PM
Message Stick Wood Carving
12.00 PM – 4.00 PM
A series of Vietnamese and Australian childhood games by the Dual Identity Leadership Program Alumni
12.00 PM – 4.00 PM
The Circle Book of Childhood Stories by Debbie Qadri
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12.00 PM – 4.00 PM
Memory Space, an installational research interview about knowledge, learning and teachings from Footscray. Conducted by Deakin University.
INSTALLATIONS + EXHIBITIONS
EVERY FACE HAS A PLACE
Art show exhibition by students from Footscray Primary School
FOOTSCRAY SCHOOL HISTORY MAP
School artefacts and interactive map by the Footscray Historical Society
BEFORE I DIE I WANT TO…
Interactive chalkboard installation by Gabriela Georges
DON’T EVEN TRY & BE HERE
Paste-up photographic installation by Cohealth arts generator‘s Liss Gabb
Learn more about our Performers and Participants
Event Map below (click to enlarge):
On Thin Ice
Charlotte Clemens’ exhibition On Thin Ice – an exhibition of work
drawing on experiences of families with drug addicted members – recently took place at the Chapel Gallery at Abbotsford Convent in Melbourne.
On Thin Ice represents the experience of supporting a family member through problematic drug dependence and it’s associated pain. Charlotte chose to use the exhibition as a place to discuss the need for drug law reform in Victoria and Australia.
All the proceeds are being donated to the work of UnitingCare Regen, an alcohol and drug treatment centre in inner north Melbourne. Regen runs family support groups, which On Thin Ice highlights as fundamental to providing meaningful assistance to others struggling with alcohol and drug use.
To find out more about the work of artist Charlotte Clemens visit her website.
Speakers at the launch included:
Charlotte Clemens, Artist
Maggie Somerville, musician and friend of the artist, performing ‘The Waiting Game’
Laurence Alvis, Chief Exective Officer of UnitingCare Regen.
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Ash Blackwell, Co-Founder of Students for Sensible Drugs Policy Australia.
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Amanda Olle, Gallery Curator at the Good Shepard (Carmen Curtin Centre) Chapel, Abbotsford.
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