Creative practitioners are increasingly pushing beyond disciplinary boundaries by engaging in counter-historical projects and investigations. These approaches range from challenging official records and historical accounts to researching social and environmental issues.

In this course, you will work in groups with community partners to create public-facing stories, campaigns and resources about local issues and contexts. You will explore the potential for creative practices to contribute to public discourse and to intervene in public space.

You will be introduced to interdisciplinary understandings and frameworks related to creative practice as a form of civil action. Learning activities will expose you to creative and analytical investigative methods and aesthetics, while readings and lectures will support critical approaches to partnership work, investigative aesthetics, and art as a social practice. The course emphasises responsible and ethical approaches to collaborative work and will guide you in responsibly translating your project work to public-facing settings.

This course includes Industry Partnered Learning (IPL) in the form of a Work Integrated Learning (WIL) activity, where you will work with community partners to produce a public-facing outcome.

This course is part of the Major and Minor: World-centred Photography and Major: Photography.