biophiliarts
value-adding:Country, culture and creativity
Artist: Dore Stockhausen
Land Art Walking Trails, Italy
Arte Sella:Contemporary Mountain!
In the remote Northern Italian Alps a small community has transformed their local economy by developing Land Art Trails that attract artists and walkers from around the world.It has formed a network with partners across Europe.
Link:Bravo Arte Sella:Contemporary Mountain!
Text: JOMO Image:Arte Sella/Contemporary Mountain
Co-design Solves Wicked Problems
by Professor Michael Trudgeon
Through ‘co-design’ a crafted and uniquely configured response can be developed that enables all stakeholders to share in and understand the problem.Collaboration and negotiation creates a synthesis of elements and produces nuanced ideas so that all understand the the benefits and the risks.
Link: The Value of Co-Design
by Prof. Michael Trudgeon.Artist:Dore Stockhausen
Creativity Future Proofing Regions
Text: JOMO
Text: JOMO. Image BOHO Steampunk Glass
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The role of creative skills in the evolution of our future economy needs to become mainstream knowledge. Creative skills are some of the least likely to be supplanted by automation and they have been integral to fast-growing industries over the last decade.” Prof. Stuart Cunningham
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Link: Creativity: Future Proofing Regions
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Indigenous Spatial Knowledge
"Country means much more than land, it is their/our place of origin in cultural, spiritual and literal terms. It includes not only but also skies and waters. Country soars high into the atmosphere, deep into the planet crust and far into the oceans..our belonging, nurturing and reciprocal relationships come through our connection to Country".
Link: Dr Danièle Hromek - Defining Country
Artist: Ray Thomas
Design Tunnel in Japan Wilderness
Has Regional Economic Impact
In places of remote and regional wilderness artists are sensitive to conservation issues. MAD creates a tourism destination with a 21st century WOW factor“.In forests, oceans and mountains these "museums without walls" transform local communities and attract high-end international tourists.
Uplifting Creativity as Industry
Text: JOMO 2022
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Artist: John Kelly
In an increasingly homogenized world, regions need to tell a story about themselves that’s distinctive and exciting. A review of governance and policy settings that strengthen Gippsland's cultural identity and the creation of a regional framework that values, integrates and supports its creative and cultural industry, is well overdue.
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Link:Uplifting Creativity & Culture as Industry
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Gippsland - It's Time To Rethink
​Text: JOMO Mar.2022
"So, what are the kind of questions we need to ask? What are the conversations we need to have?"
“There has never been a more critical time for the industry to work together i.e., for government to come to the sharp end of the market with small business operators and their communities. The recently updated Gippsland Tourism Management Plan Towards 2030 [i] reflects a return to ‘business as usual.’ Destination Gippsland has a complex task working in step with a host of powerful government stakeholders and their competing policy agendas. It’s a Byzantine web of Local, State and Commonwealth government agendas. Regional Tourism sits at the intersection of Indigenous sovereignty, regional development priorities, public land and parks management, diminished local education services, and ‘the elephant in the room’, forestry management."
Link: Gippsland: It'sTime To Rethink
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E.G Co-design lab Inc. Collective
Our mindset is multi-sensory, educational, conservation-minded, respectful of First Nations Country & culture & nourishing to both mind & body.
Our Values
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We value community. Each community has its identity - its history, stories, culture and its brand of resilience.
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We value inclusiveness by listening to all who have a stake in the regeneration of land, biodiversity, culture and community
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We unleash the power of creativity: imagination, ideas,complex problem solving, skills & knowledge
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We value diversity. We create safe and trustworthy settings that observe protocols and enable sharing of ideas and knowledge across disciplines, cultures, ethnicity, age and gender identities
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We respect truth and reconciliation: the need to acknowledge the beauty and ugliness of our history; our First Nations need to regenerate culture, language and share knowledge.
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We are mindful of ongoing trauma that results from catastrophic events. We draw on our innate connection to Country/Nature and Creativity for recovery as individuals, communities and industry.
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We seek strategic pathways to enhance skills, hatch businesses and create jobs. Our vision is a thriving regional economy that supports First Nations, their autonomy and economic prosperity; that leverages off tourism operators and their services; that conserves rich biodiversity and an abundance of growers, citizen scientists, entrepreneurs, makers and creators.
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