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Tramjatra

Tramjatra is a transdisciplinary research project that brings together artists, designers and the tramways communities of Melbourne & Kolkata to explore their cities through the medium of tramways.

The research has led to the publication of Tramjatra: Imagining Melbourne and Kolkata by tramways, edited by Mick Douglas, co-published by Yoda Press (India) and RMIT University Press (Australia) 2005

In the context of increasing debates about sustainability and the impacts and processes of globalisation, tramjatra makes new connections through a public arts practice of inter-cultural dialogue. Over the past decade Kolkata's struggling tramways have faced persistent threat of closure and the operation of Melbourne 's tramways has been privatised and automated. By traveling between two different urban realties, tramjatra provokes both a local and global engagement in the culturally enriching and environmentally sustaining contribution that tramways can make to these cities.

Invention Intervention

Edited by Mick Douglas. Foreword by Leon van Schaik and Martin Woolley Melbourne: RMIT School of Architecture + Design 2000

Set against the backdrop of contemporary enthusiasm for innovation, Invention Intervention gathers together recent research and project work associated with RMIT University Industrial Design to explore how the design discipline acts to create and invent, what motivates and guides such efforts and what benefits and consequences may arise from them in light of issues of sustainability.

Contributions by Lyndon Anderson, Craig Bremner, Mick Douglas, Peter Downton, Jonathon Duckworth, John Gertsakis, Barry Hudson, Anthony Kitchener, Brad Marmion, Marie Sierra, Soumitri Varadarajan, Malte Wagenfeld.

Mick Douglas is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Architecture + Design at RMIT who works between the fields of art and design. He is the editor of a forthcoming book on the arts research project; Tramjatra: Imagining Melbourne and Kolkata by Tramways.

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