Art and design schools across Australia navigate a range of cultural and economic forces. The pedagogical and research agendas of the University environment, along with concomitant financial and administrative constraints, create one set of pressures. External industry structures and commercial aims create provide another. As art and design schools adapt to, and define themselves against, these environmental conditions, a pressure that often runs against the studio’s spirit of enquiry and value as a pedagogical space may be produced. In the context of these complex forces, what is the morphology of the contemporary art and design school?

The 2016 ACUADS Conference will consider adaptation of various qualities and extents, as entities, processes and approaches that are conditional, grafted, contoured, nested or composite. We invite papers from academics, art teachers and postgraduate students on topics relating to adaptation, interconnection, hybridity, survival, symbiosis and habitat as they affect the practice and pedagogy of contemporary art and design. Papers and roundtable proposals are sought that address topics including, but not limited to:

  • Survival practices: considering art, design and the anthropocene
  • Arranged marriages: amalgamations and mergers
  • Praxical models: connecting theory, practice and exegesis
  • Critical studio models: the contemporary art market and the academy
  • Methodologies: hybrid processes in the studio, lab and workshop
  • Disciplined and undisciplined approaches: connecting practices, fields, methodologies and audiences
  • Common spaces: teaching and practice

Papers are also welcomed from HDR students that relate to their specific research projects and curiosities.

ABSTRACT GUIDELINES
Abstract submissions should comprise 2 pages as follows:

1)    Coversheet: Paper title, author, affiliation, phone, email and  brief biographical details (100 words).
Please indicate if you are willing to act as a referee of abstracts and whether you wish to have the paper refereed.
Please indicate if you are eligible for a Postgraduate Scholarship (see below).

2)    Abstract: Paper title, 250 words, up to 5 keywords.

Please submit to Charles Robb via acuads2016submissions at qut.edu.au by Friday 6 May 2016.
The Conference Committee will advise authors of the acceptance or otherwise by Friday 27 May 2016.

Postgraduate Scholarships

  • Three scholarships of $500, funded by ACUADS, are available for for HDR students. Eligible students (full-time HDR, <$40,000 annual income) may put funds towards registration, accommodation and/or travel costs. Recipients will be selected from papers marked eligible. Successful recipients will be notified by Friday 27 May 2016

For further information please contact Charles Robb, acuads2016 at qut.edu.au

FULL PAPER GUIDELINES

  • Accepted papers that are nominated for refereeing will be submitted to the Conference organisers for ‘double-blind’ peer review. Papers that successfully undergo the double-blind refereeing process will be published on the conference website.
  • Completed papers to be submitted by Friday 29 July 2016.

Cover Sheet

  • Provide a cover sheet with paper title, author, affiliation, phone, email and brief biographical details (100 words).

Preparation of Papers
Please note the following requirements:

  • For blind peer review, remove author’s name and affiliation
  • Papers should not be more than 3000 words
  • Text 11 point, Arial, 1.5 spaced with headings in bold
  • Use single quotes, double within quotes