WMIER WINE & TAPAS EVENING 6-8pm 15th AUGUST
Wednesday 15th August (First day of Conference) following the last session of the day, there will be an opportunity for registrants to convene at Riverview bar and restaurant on Cook Street, Hamilton, from 6-8pm. This evening is sponsored by WMIER and will be a fantastic opportunity to network, discuss topics raised at the conference, and enjoy tapas and wine. This event will be free of charge to registrants.
If you would like to take part in this evening, please RSVP to courtnew@waikato.ac.nz as soon as possible, and also indicate whether you need transport from the Ibis to Riverview (around a 5-10 minute drive) as shuttles can be arranged.
Book Launch!
While enjoying the wine and
tapas at Riverview, we will be treated to a book launch for the exciting new
book ‘Supervising Practices for
Postgraduate Research in Art, Architecture and Design’ edited by Brent
Allpress, Robyn Barnacle, Lesley Duxbury and Elizabeth Grierson.
Supervising Practices for
Postgraduate Research in Art, Architecture and Design offers insights into
supervisory practices in creative and design-based research by academics at
Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT) University, Australia. The book
focuses on practices of supervising candidates who are undertaking postgraduate
research in art, architecture, design and creative writing. It addresses a
decisive shift in the academy towards an emphasis on applied practice-led
research undertaken through project-based investigations. This model
articulates an effective means to conduct research on knowledge both embodied
in, and discovered through creative and design practices. Such knowledge can be
understood in the context of broad socio-cultural changes in which creative and
applied practice is defining and leading cultural, scientific, technological
and creative economies.
The contributors to this book
investigate a range of supervisory strategies and wider concerns to do with
knowledge and its formations. They focus on diverse pedagogical models and
methodologies of supervising practices through applied practice-led research,
exhibitions, ethics, writing, theory and practice, language and design. The
authors are experienced supervisors of creative and practice-led research who
have engaged in scholarly reflections on selective aspects of their supervisory
practices with the aim of providing insight to others regarding what they do,
and how and why they do it. The overall aim of this collection is to open up
dialogue and debate around emerging modes of postgraduate research and
supervisory practice in universities of the twenty-first century.
Royal
Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT) University, Melbourne, Australia
