Course Title: Cultural Production Project

Part A: Course Overview

Course Title: Cultural Production Project

Credit Points: 24.00


Course Coordinator: Associate Professor Marnie Badham

Course Coordinator Phone: +61 3 9925

Course Coordinator Email: Marnie.badham@rmit.edu.au

Course Coordinator Location: Building 6 Level 5

Course Coordinator Availability: By appointment


Pre-requisite Courses and Assumed Knowledge and Capabilities

It is recommended that you take this course at the same time as OART 1103 Working in First Peoples contexts: creative partnerships and cultural production. 


Course Description

In this course, you will develop a cultural production project (real or simulated) utilising expansive methods and adaptive strategies. Within the context of cultural production, you will learn how to ethically approach: 

  • communication with diverse stakeholders and needs
  • partnership negotiation and community engagement
  • application of creative and conceptual frameworks 
  • project planning and realisation 

You will develop skills and knowledge in how to negotiate, align and reconcile aesthetic interests of stakeholders, apply critical frameworks, work within policy constraints, and foster cultural partnerships across a range of cultural and social frameworks.  

Through consideration of the historical and contemporary contexts and precedents for your project, and by developing a process of critical self-reflexivity, you will expand your ideas of cultural production, curation, arts management and in local, national and international contexts. 


Objectives/Learning Outcomes/Capability Development

This course contributes to the following GC213 Graduate Certificate in Creative and Cultural Production Program Learning Outcomes:  

  • Critically reflect on diverse approaches to cultural production in community and institutional scenarios, including First Peoples contexts. 
  • Engage and collaborate respectfully with diverse stakeholders, both locally and globally, to innovate, create and problem solve in a range of social and cultural contexts. 
  • Apply cultural production knowledge(s) and skills to make ethical and evidence-based decisions, actively challenge assumptions and develop, creative solutions. 
  • Employ professional and interpersonal skills, including the creative use of digital strategies to effectively and responsibly negotiate and communicate. 


Upon successful completion of this course, you will be able to:  

1. Critically evaluate key conceptual frameworks within the field of cultural production.  

2. Investigate inclusive, generative and culturally responsive planning and communication approaches to collaborating with communities and organisations.  

3.Develop new creative methods, concepts, materials and technologies in the creation and implementation of a project.  

4.Critically reflect upon your work and the work of others by applying a global contemporary creative arts perspective.


Overview of Learning Activities

Through lectures, workshops, tutorials, reading groups, critiques, and discussions you will explore critical debates and multiple perspectives within contemporary creative arts and media, and identify key examples of creative practice relevant to your project.  

You will be actively engaged in developing a real or simulated industry project which may involve fieldwork, site visits and discussions with industry stakeholders. 

Delivery will be a combination of intensive face-to-face and online classes. 

Learning activities and assessments may involve individual or group work. 

This course provides career development learning opportunities that include engaging in real-world projects with community and industry partners, and/or simulated projects based on professional contexts.   


Overview of Learning Resources

RMIT will provide you with resources and tools for learning in this course through our online systems. 

There are services and resources available to support your learning through the University Library. The Library provides guides on academic referencing and subject specialist help as well as a range of study support services. For further information, please visit the Library page on the RMIT University website and the RMIT student website.


Overview of Assessment

You will be assessed on how well you meet the course learning outcomes and on your development against the program learning outcomes. Feedback will be given on all assessment tasks. 

Assessment Tasks 

Assessment Task 1: Project Proposal 30% (equivalency 1000 words/10-minute presentation), CLO1, CLO2, CLO3 

Assessment Task 2: Project in Progress Presentation 30% (15-minute presentation) CLO2, CLO3 

Assessment Task 3: Project Summary and Critical Reflection 40% (equivalency 3,000 words), CLO3, CLO4 

If you have a long-term medical condition and/or disability it may be possible to negotiate to vary aspects of the learning or assessment methods. You can contact the program coordinator or Equitable Learning Services if you would like to find out more. 

Your course assessment conforms to RMIT assessment principles, regulations, policies, procedures and instructions.