Creative Agency Research Lab

The Creative Agency research lab is a hub for transdisciplinary studies of creativity across the education lifespan.

We are an international network of researchers, educators, creative practitioners, and industry professionals who share a commitment to creativity as a catalyst for social change in response to global challenges.

Our members are actively developing new ways to address the most pressing issues of our times, including Creative Education and Learning Sciences, Creativity and Generative Technologies, and Climate-responsive and Creative Futures.

We specialise in co-developing creative pedagogies and methodologies in collaboration with schools and cultural organisations, working closely with children, young people and diverse communities of all ages to co-create educational and cultural benefit, impact, and transformation.

As a gathering place for creative research and social innovation across educational, cultural, community, industry, and governmental sectors, the Creative Agency research lab offers an inclusive and visionary space for re-imagining what creative education and work can be in the 21st century.

Creative Education Futures Consortium

Creative Agency is also the home of the international Creative Education Futures Consortium.

There is a pervasive lack of cooperation and coordination between sectors in Australia and abroad to address urgent global challenges that creativity and creative skills are required to solve. This consortium brings together leading scholars in a wide range of disciplines including Education, Arts, Creative and Cultural Industries, Health and Wellbeing, STEM, Humanities, and Social Work. All are committed to developing a more collaborative approach to addressing these challenges, working across sectors in a holistic and linked-up manner, across industry and higher education.

Research Nodes

Creative Education, STEM and the Learning Sciences

This node transforms teaching and learning by bringing critical transdisciplinary perspectives to bear on the intersections of creativity, design, STEM and the new learning sciences.

Creativity and Generative Technologies

This node focuses on transforming education through attention to AI and creativity in teaching and researching the creative mindsets that emerge alongside generative digital innovations.

Creative Engagement and Social Impact

This node investigates how creative engagement for individuals and communities initiates, supports and extends social cohesion, economic sustainability, health, employment and cultural tourism. The node supports using arts and creative methodologies as a process of collecting and reporting data to illuminate text and statistics.

Creative Resilience and Wellbeing

This node focuses on strengthening education across the lifespan through a commitment to healthy communities, building resilience and fostering wellbeing through creative research and educational innovation.

Featured projects

Sweet Enough

PhD candidate and artist Rose Agnew’s exhibition Sweet Enough considered sugar from a feminist perspective, examining its complex history, uses and roles.

Young Creators’ Lab

The ACMI + RMIT Young Creators’ Lab celebrates digital developers aged 10–16 and invites them to showcase their projects at ACMI each year.

Vital Arts: Skilling young people for their futures

Vital Arts focusses on the skills young people need to flourish in the face of climate and technological disruption.

#theSTEMproblem: Exploring Problem Based Learning in School-Based STEM Education

#theSTEMproblem positions teachers as co-researchers with a deep understanding of their school contexts to examine their practice within this context.

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Contact Creative Agency

Interested in collaborating with us or joining the mailing list? Contact Professor Daniel X. Harris.

Professor Daniel X. Harris

daniel.harris@rmit.edu.au

Creative Agency Research Lab