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PL :: Making Creative Places

ARCHITECTURE + PHILOSOPHY PUBLIC LECTURE SERIES 2006 SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE AND DESIGN, RMIT UNIVERSITY

MAKING CREATIVE PLACES
Dr Anna Hickey-Moody (Education, Monash University) Thursday, 12 October 7:30pm in RMIT Theatre 8.11.68 (Enter via Swanston St: Bldg 8, level 11, theatre 68 - to the right of the lifts)

This lecture explores the work of two UK based organizations, each of which looks to develop a creative society and foster creativity in young people. I take up Deleuzian concepts of spatiality to explore the work of two UK arts companies which seek to foster creativity in young people. In contemporary cultural formations, such creativity is often reduced to a social, economic and subjective signifier of health or wealth. As Deleuze and Guattari (1994: 10) wryly note:

Œconcepts [like creativity] are products that can be sold. Š the one who packages the product, commodity, or work of art has become the philosopher, conceptual persona, or artist¹.

PL :: Contemplating Violence in Indonesia

Contemplating Violence in Indonesia
The 4th annual Herb Feith Lecture, 30 Nov 2006
Herb Feith Foundation,
Monash University, Melbourne, Australia

Lecture by Ruth McVey, 30 November 2006.
6.00pm refreshments for 7.00pm start ,
Thursday 30 November 2006,
Iwaki Auditorium, ABC Southbank Centre, Corner Sturt Street and Southbank Boulevard, Melbourne

Dr McVey is Emeritus Reader in Southeast Asian Politics at the University of London. She received her PhD in Government at Cornell University and subsequently held positions at Yale University, the