Vision & Mission
Vision
To provide a trans-disciplinary platform to integrate artistic and creative practice into research, development and enterprise across science, technology, communities and industry.
Mission
To engage with art, science and technology to enable and influence culture, community and economic developments by:
- Building and participating in robust, resilient networks that exist to identify and pursue new opportunities in trans-disciplinary practice and inspiration.
- Supporting creative practitioners by identifying pathways for innovative and trans-disciplinary practice.
- Assisting creative practitioners to achieve financially sustainable practices that have important and positive economic impact.
Definitions
Creative practitioners: People with experimental, future-focused and trans-disciplinary mindsets who engage with new ideas and technologies by articulating a process of discovery and letting innovation emerge.
Trans-disciplinary: A whole ecology of creative and productive activity leading to creative practice being embedded within culture, community and economy. This requires:
- Industry (producers/manufacturing/business)
- Researchers – i.e. creative practitioners (thinkers/experimenters/researchers)
- Investment (finance/funding/commercialisation)
- Government & community (civic innovation/infrastructure)
- Services (legal/accounting/marketing professionals)
- Media
Trans-disciplinary includes the conceptual dimensions of Supra-disciplinary and Extra-disciplinary.
Supra-disciplinary: This is where professional and amateur knowledge engages and crosses over to enrich trans-disciplinary practice.
Extra-disciplinary: When looked at from a trans-disciplinary perspective the new joint disciplines create an as yet unknown and unexpected discipline; a different way of viewing knowledge.
