Community Cultural Development Research Projects
The following list indicates the breadth of CCD student and staff inquiry. The projects are presented within the key areas of public policy and interest.
Community Strengthening
- Creative Collaborations case study publication (Sue Clark and Alison Richards)
- Youth dance research project (Postgraduate student Matt Morse)
- Retirement Village art and living museum project (Masters student Sue Hartigan)
- Bute Utes project as Creative Collaborations case study (Regional Arts Victoria and Donna Jackson)
- Such Fertile Ground environmental art installations project as Creative Collaborations case study (Regional Arts Victoria and Donna Jackson)
- Small Town Big Picture project as Creative Collaborations case study (artist Craig Christie)
Housing/Urban Renewal
- Atherton Gardens Choir as Creative Collaborations case study (Graham Pitts)
- North Richmond Arts and Culture program as Creative Collaborations case study (Rosalie Haswell)
Multicultural Communities
- Timorese community choir (Postgraduate student Carmelita Gomes)
- African drummer/dancer/arts initiatives (Lamine Sonko)
- Sudanese young men as story telling/drama project in Dandenong (Masters student Shahin Shafaeie)
- Ethnic Artist's ongoing scholarships (Sue Clark and Harold Mitchell Foundation)
- Vietnamese community Cultural Democracy program analysis (Masters student Tony Le Nguyen)
- Eating the City ethnic arts project as Creative Collaborations case study (Jane Crawley/City of Melbourne)
- African future training links (Sue Clark)
- Timorese future training links (Sue Clark)
Arts & Education
- Creativity pilots/Fawkner HS boys photographic project (Richard Jones)
- Prisoners arts in education project (Richard Jones)
- New models/innovations (Masters student David Everist)
- On line research project (Lachlan MacDowall, Richard Jones, Sue Clark)
- Enchanted Murray River project as case study in (Annie Edeney)
Health & Wellbeing
- Vic Health CAD research (Richard Jones, Sue Clark and Lachlan MacDowall)
- Somebody's Daughter Theatre as case study (Maud Clark)
- Sacred Space in hospitals for palliative care (Masters student Efterpi Soropos)
Indigenous Communities
- The Torch as Creative Collaborations case study (Steve Payne)
- Indigenous women's arts program (Postgraduate student Paola Morabito)
- Cultural mapping model for Indigenous land rights negotiations (Postgraduate student Jadah Milroy)
- Indigenous school children's project (Postgraduate student Tara Prowse)
- Indigenous women arts (Masters student Robyn Thompson)
Justice
- CCD praxis research (Dean Merlino)
The Arts, Nature and the Environment
- Wilderness and nature trail project (Postgraduate student Lynden Costin)
- Labyrinth installation & local planting project (Postgraduate student Heather Lorraine Plazier)
- Reconstruction of Tuvalu village/environmental awareness project (Postgraduate student Emanuela Santani)