About VADRG
Research priorities
VADRG's research priorities focus on:
- supporting visiting scholars and artists in residency programs
- postgraduate student/staff seminars and studio critiques; symposia and colloquia on research topics and themes
- student and staff exhibitions of creative works
- student and staff collaborations with industry partners
- staff and student publications and conference presentations
- staff and student attainment of internal and external (nationally competitive) grants.
In 2006 and 2007 VADRG's research project was 'Not – there: The ethics and politics of non-monumental art and design practices for/as public space'. There Forever'
Priority areas are to:
- continue to increase national competitive grant submissions and success rates
- develop a major focus on sustainable societies
- support international research
- support Indigenous research
- extend professional development for early career researchers and emerging research leaders
- develop a web-based presence towards a research and publication portal.
Research areas
The group's main focus is on the development of a dynamic and creative research culture within and across the School of Art, Architecture and Design, the University and the broader professional community. VADRG aims to achieve this through research activities and outcomes in the following areas, based on members' expertise and interest:
Experimental art and design research
Installation art and performance art
Public art and design practice and criticism
Landscape architecture; Collaborative art & design practice; Digital art and design imaging.
Cross-cultural and Indigenous art and design theory
Australian/ urban landscape; indigenous and Pacific rim cultures, cross-cultural migration.
Gender Theory: gender issues in contemporary art and design
Art and design pedagogy
Development of pedagogical strategies that can be applied to facilitate postgraduate research outcomes and the acquisition of research subsidies.
Research methodologies
'Action research' theory and practice.