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Research School of Humanities and the Arts · ANU College of Arts and Social Sciences
Drawing on models of collaborative ethnography and arts this course introduces students to storytelling as a collaborative method of cultural research as it applies to fields such as museum practice, anthropology, art and design. The course will use experiential project-based learning to guide students through a cycle of collaborative cultural research and production of a product for public display or dissemination. Beginning with a grounding in the influences and practices shaping ‘the collaborative turn’ across a broad range of disciplines, the course will support students to identify and design collaborative research and production processes, identify and address ethical issues and processes of feedback with collaborators, and complete and reflect upon a cycle of collaborative production of a cultural research product.
Project proposal and preparation of a variation to a Human Research Ethics Committee protocol - methodology & impact discussion (800 words)
Learning outcomes 1, 2, 3
Project documentation and critical reflection journal (1000 words)
Learning outcomes 2, 3, 4, 5
Edited interview draft (1500 words)
Learning outcomes 4, 5
Research Project and Display (2500 words)
Learning outcomes 1, 4, 5
A total of 130 hours consisting of a) 36 contact hours comprised of a 3-day intensive (21 hours) completed before the commencement of semester (typically during orientation week, which is the week before semester commences) and 5 x 3 hour workshops over the semester and b) 94 hours of independent research, reading and project work by students. Other Information Please note this course involves a 3 day intensive which is completed before the commencement of semester (typically during orientation week, which is the week before semester commences) and subsequent 3-hour workshops either weekly or fortnightly.
Haviland, M. (2017). Side by Side? Community Art and the Challenge of Co-Creativity. London: Routledge. Preliminary Reading Bishop, C. (2006). The Social Turn: Collaboration and its Discontents. Artforum. Breunlin, R., Himelstein, A., & Nelson, A. (2008). "Our Stories, Told By Us:" The Neighborhood Story Project in New Orleans. In R. Solinger, M. Fox, & K. Irani (Eds.), Telling Stories to Change the World (e-book edition ed.): Taylor & Francis; Routledge. Haviland, M. (2017). Side by Side? Community Art and the Challenge of Co-Creativity. London: Routledge. Lassiter, L. E. (2005). The Chicago Guide to Collaborative Ethnography. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Narayan, K. (2014). How Native Is a "Native" Anthropologists. In L. Laphere, H. Ragone, & P. Zavella (Eds.), Situated Lives (pp. 23-41): Taylor and Francis. Sprague, Q. (2014). Collaborators: Third Party Transactions in Indigenous Contemporary Art. In I. Mclean (Ed.), Transculturation and Indigenous contemporary art: Cambridge Scholar Press. Stout, N. (2014). Bootlegged: Unauthorized Circulation and the Dilemmas of Collaboration in the Digital Age. Visual Anthropology Review, 30(2), 177-187.