Turning Learning Upside Down: Public Pedagogies Institute Conference 2017

Interconnecting public, learning and research.Public Pedagogies Instituteaims to provide a platform for engagement and collaboration between practitioners, researchers and organisations working in the areas of learning and teaching in the community or outside formal education institutions.

Public Pedagogies Institute

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Turning Learning Upside Down: Teaching and Learning Beyond the Classroom
We understand public pedagogies to be the many sites in which teaching and learning occurs in the community and outside formal institutions. These may include museums, libraries, neighbourhood houses and community centres as well as in the arts, through community engagement and public history.
This conference seeks to engage people who participate in learning and teaching in practice, research and the evaluation of public pedagogies and presents a platform for exchange on the challenges, achievements and best practice in this field.
We welcome a range of submissions – informal presentations, academic papers, workshops, screenings – and encourage a diversity of sectors to participate in two days of ideas-sharing and networking.
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The conference will be held over two days, from Thursday November 23 to Friday November 24.
Registration 
The one Registration fee of $100/60 includes open attendance at both days of the conference, with lunch and refreshments provided, as well as an annual membership to the Public Pedagogies Institute. You can choose to attend on one or both days at the same rate. The cost has been kept to a minimum to make attendance as accessible as possible.
There is also the option of purchasing a ticket to the conference dinner on the evening of Thursday November 23 in Footscray for an additional $30 for those that wish to attend.
Conference Keynote Speakers
Our keynote speakers will present in the morning of day one and two of the program with a related panel discussion to follow:
Keynote Speaker – Day One, Thursday November 23 
Margaret Wertheim
Margaret Wertheim is an internationally noted writer, artist and curator whose work focuses on relations between science and the wider cultural landscape. The author of six books including “The Pearly Gates of Cyberspace,” a history of space from Dante to the Internet, and “Physics on the Fringe,” she has written for the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Washington Post, Aeon and many others. With her twin sister Christine she founded the Institute For Figuring, a Los Angeles-based practice devoted to the aesthetic and poetic dimensions of science and mathematics. (<A HREF="http://theiff.org/" DATA-MSYS-CLICKTRACK="0" REL="nofollow noopener noreferrer">theiff.org</A>.) Through the IFF, she has created exhibitions for the Hayward Gallery (London), Science Gallery (Dublin), MASS MoCA (MA), and Art Center College of Design (Los Angeles). The Wertheim sisters’ Crochet Coral Reef project is the largest participatory art &amp; science endeavor in the world, and has been shown at the Andy Warhol Museum (Pittsburgh), Museum of Arts and Design (New York), Deutsches Museum (Munich), the Smithsonian (Washington D.C.), and elsewhere. Margaret’s reef TED talk has been viewed more than a million times and translated into 22 languages. 
Margaret’s presentation will be based on the following: 
Art, Science and Figuring the World
Welsh writer Merrily Harpur has written that: “the duty of artists everywhere is to enchant the conceptual landscape.” It may not be the duty of scientists to produce conceptual enchantment, but in this talk Margaret Wertheim will propose that this is one of the goals scientists and mathematicians achieve. In 2003, Wertheim founded the Institute For Figuring, a Los Angeles-based enterprise with her artist-twin-sister Christine that’s dedicated to “the poetic and aesthetic dimensions of science and mathematics.” The IFF can be conceived of as a “play tank” – a new kind of practice for exploring creative public engagement with topics ranging from geometry and topology, to physics, computation, and biological form. Here, Wertheim will discuss how imaginative speculative play practices can provide insight into the realms of math and science for citizens of all ages. From a worldwide project to model coral reefs using the art of crochet, to building giant fractals from tens of thousands of brightly colored business cards, Wertheim’s work offers experiences for playing with ideas.
Find out more: <A HREF="http://crochetcoralreef.org/" TARGET="_blank" DATA-MSYS-CLICKTRACK="0" REL="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Crochet Coral Reef</A><A HREF="http://theiff.org/current/" TARGET="_blank" DATA-MSYS-CLICKTRACK="0" REL="nofollow noopener noreferrer"> The Institute for Figuring</A>
Keynote Speaker – Day Two, Friday November 24
Liss Gabb
Liss Gabb is creative producer, director, curator in the field of participatory arts and social justice. Over the past 20 years Liss has developed a socially engaged practice that is based on working in partnership with communities that experience structural disadvantage. Liss provides the artistic leadership for cohealth Arts Generator, an award winning, participatory arts space that is a division of cohealth, one of Australia’s largest community health providers. Under Liss’s leadership the program has become an award winning, multi-arts program that serves communities in eight LGAs in the West and Inner North of Melbourne. Arts Generator’s unique model of engagement and cutting-edge artistic outputs are presented regularly at national and international forums and conferences. Liss holds a Masters of Art (Art in Public Space) from RMIT University, that focuses on the ability of the art created with communities to tell difficult stories and its potential to shift the contours of society through empathic thinking.
Visit the <A HREF="https://cohealthartsgenerator.com/" TARGET="_blank" DATA-MSYS-CLICKTRACK="0" REL="nofollow noopener noreferrer">cohealth website</A> to find out more. 
 
Further information about the event and the Public Pedagogies Institute is available on <A HREF="http://www.publicpedagogies.org" TARGET="_blank" DATA-MSYS-CLICKTRACK="0" REL="nofollow noopener noreferrer">our website</A>.
 
This conference is organised with the support of Victoria University and Deakin University.
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Victoria University: Footscray Nicholson Campus

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