Laminations

BACKGROUND: LAMINATIONS was a 'creative research event' that included a symposium and curated exhibition showcasing creative transdisciplinary research practice. It is part of 'Ocean Connections,' a research capability initiative auspiced by the Collaborative Research Network (CRN), focusing on the role concomitant production, or creativity, plays in the production of place. For the exhibition component, Paul Carter - as part of Material Thinking (with Edmund Carter) - curated 10 projects showing current and emerging creative research, and capacity building oriented research and practice being carried out at Charles Darwin University. The exhibition included Carter's projects produced in collaboration with various researchers: Involutes, Kelp, Scarborough Edge: a creative template and Fragile Environments. CONTRIBUTION: LAMINATIONS brought together 'offcuts' of current research into the phenomenon of place-making. The hybrid exhibition and symposium, at Charles Darwin University, demonstrates the creative presentation of research, to enable access and communication of research findings to a wide range of audiences and think innovatively about not only research practice, but also about short and long-term outcomes. LAMINATIONS featured 4 of Carter's research projects that overall demonstrated his ongoing investigation into the idea using creative arts and its implications for new forms of regional governance models (that can also incorporate performative and other creative traditions of placemaking), and in this way, contribute to discussions about regionally valuable research. SIGNIFICANCE: This project was supported by research funding (out of $5 million total) from the Federal Government as part of the CRN program, which formed a partnership between Charles Darwin University and 3 other national Universities. In addition to the exhibition and symposium, a catalogue was produced which examined each project in critical detail.