Increasingly, the ability to successfully share creative artefacts is underpinned by three central and overlapping activities: creative artefact/service production by skilled practitioners; their connection to and participation in a networked society and their ability to develop complex and novel forms of reciprocity.
Such forms of contemporary practice are iterative in their reliance on personal expertise, civic participation and a genuine commitment to knowledge sharing. As a result, new forms of creative production are better situated within environments with a vested interest in engaging in all three activities. Museums offer trusted authoritative environments through which to explore new models of collaboration, knowledge production, dissemination and communication. Using emerging cases as a starting point, this talk explores the connections between creative producers and museums as it expands on the theme of the triple helix (Parry, 2014) and identifies ways in which knowledge production and communication can lead to innovative creative and commercial outcomes.
Bio: Professor Angelina Russo is the Associate Dean Research in the Faculty of Arts and Design at the University of Canberra. Prior to this she was Director, Higher Degrees Research in the School of Media and Communications (RMIT) (2010 – 2013) and a Chief Investigator in the ARC Centre of Excellence in Creative Industries and Innovation (2005 – 2011). Her research practice explores the intersections between cultural collections, media, and design. She has research partners in major cultural institutions around the world and supervises candidates across a number of different subject areas which are drawn together through their investigations into new modes of knowledge production in museum studies and communication design. She is recognised for the research and practice which she has undertaken in social media for museums and innovative participatory practices. She is currently developing a new stream of research which draws together design and making communities with museums. Angelina is a co-founder and Director of Museum3, a not for profit organisation with over 4000 members.