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INITIATIVES PROVIDED BY ORGANISATIONS TO HELP TOWNSVILLE’S CREATIVE UNDERGROUND

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INITIATIVE: Mapping Places Made for Townsville’s Creative Underground

Active September 1, 2024 to October 31, 2024

Provided by

We want to discover all the places across Townsville where the creative underground can create, connect, learn, innovate… 

Participants are encouraged to: Seek and use ‘third places’ in Townsville where the creative underground can create, connect, learn, work on their projects, pursue dreams and ideas…  Update the places database on the creative underground website . . .

One research task is to map the ‘third place creative ecosystem’ across the city of Townsville, and creative underground research participant, Lynn, suggested transforming the research task into a collaborative initiative for the creative . . .

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INITIATIVE: STE(a)M for ASD – Regular Community Catchup (Program Design)

Active July 30, 2024 to August 31, 2024

Provided by Urban Maker

The aim is to generate a program which enables the ASD community to network and socalise around making and creating within a MakerSpace environment. A general overview is as follows: The intent is to provide a place where young (and old) minds can . . .

To meet likeminded people, both at the child and adult level within their local community Understand the benefits of a local MakerSpace for learning STE(a)M topics, and for those who home school, be introduced to a free community resource that can . . .

Urban Maker (Andrew Schubert) is the initiative designer.  Initially Andrew aims to develop a simple model that leverages Library MakerSpace resources, including consumables, and engaging a group of volunteer parents/ASD participants to help drive . . .

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INITIATIVE: Improving Social Inclusion Pathways for Low-Income Families in Townsville through Place-Based Creative Collaborations

Completed (legacy) March 1, 2024 to August 30, 2024

Provided by DakTech, Queensland University of Technology, State Government of Queensland

This initiative was created to help Townsville’s creative underground (i) battle loneliness and social isolation, (ii) meet diverse peers and connect with resources from industry, so that (iii) more people, particularly from less fortunate . . .

Participants for this initiative are required to interact with others to design and do projects. Project ideas are inspired by a participant’s purpose, dreams, ideas, and struggles in life. Examples of projects already making progress include a video . . .

This program initiative and participatory research project is aligned with the QUT Digital Media Research Centre’s ARC Linkage project (LP190100677) on “Advancing digital inclusion in low income Australian families”, which is in partnership with The . . .

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