Art+ Education

Arts + Education Research

Neo in collaboration with Collingwood College and The Photo Futures Lab, 2018, Photograph, Image Courtesy of Neo

Fostering the conditions for art and education to thrive through interdisciplinary research.
The processes of art and education have much in common – both have the potential to inspire, critique, educate and bring about change. Our research focuses on the intersections between artistic practice and education. We ask how artists/educators foster conditions for creativity and creative learning to thrive; and how to re-imagine educational systems that enable learner agency, engagement, autonomy, critical reflection, intelligent discernment, and transformation. We explore how core elements of the creative process can be deployed to imagine and reimagine new possibilities for learning and practice in both education, community and public-sector settings, as well as society more broadly, in order to build a stronger, healthier, more equitable and sustainable society.

Research Projects

Visual Stories

The Photo Lab: Collingwood StudioIndia, Shanghai, China, urban space, absence, fieldwork, city, art practice, haptic methods, practice-led research, multi-sensory experience, art, urban environment, sites of absence, environment, cities, Absence and the city, New York, 2015, USA, Libby Wallace, Varanasi

STEAM Horizons

Arts Based Social Enterprise and Marginalised Young People’s Transitions

Research Theme Leaders

David Forrest

David Forrest PhD is Professor of Music Education in the School of Art at RMIT University where he is the program manager of the MA (Arts Management). He is a Fellow of the Australian Society for Music Education and an Honorary Life member of ASME. His research areas include doctoral education in the arts, curriculum and policy in education, and the Russian composer and educator Dmitri Kabalevsky.
david.forrest@rmit.edu.au

Professor Kit Wise

Professor Kit Wise has held senior educational leadership roles since 2008, including Associate Dean Education in the Faculty of Art Design & Architecture at Monash University, and Director, School of Creative Arts, University of Tasmania. He has engaged in an advisory capacity with creative arts schools on course design and interdisciplinarity, including LaSalle, Singapore, Massey, New Zealand and Banff, Canada. He is Chair of the Executive Council of ACUADS (Australian Council of University Art and Design Schools) and Secretary for the Deans and Directors of Creative Arts, Australia.
kit.wise@rmit.edu.au

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