Susan Davis- CQ University Noosa Hub

Event date: 1 Mar 2010 - 30 May 2010

 

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This project will build contemporary stories through utilising different arts & new media to engage children, young people & community in documenting stories and art works which focus on significant trees in their area.  School students, teachers and CQ University education students will engage with local history and stories (Indigenous, post settlement, contemporary) & work with artists and museums to create digital content.  The opportunity to work with leading international arts and multi-media company, C & T (from the UK), will enable the project to connect with an international audience and build capacity within the creative arts and education sectors on the Sunshine Coast.  Tree-Mappa 2.0 will be linked to C & T’s 2010 project 'Mappa Mundi 2.0' – contemporary digital versions of what were medieval maps of the world.

Tree-Mappa 2.0 will be managed by Sue Davis from CQ University, a lead agency for pre-service teacher education in the Sunshine Coast Region.   Sue is a lecturer in education and the arts and over the past five years has researched and staged projects which have explored using the Internet and pervasive technologies for enacting drama.  Sue met the C & T team at the international IDEA Congress in Hong Kong in 2007 and the IDIERI drama research conference in Sydney in 2009.  She has been impressed by the innovative work C & T conducts with schools and is excited about working with C & T on this international collaboration.  TreeLine artists will be invited to connect with this project and to explore ways to work with schools to create digital content.

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