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Link to papers from the Fourth Pillar Conference
Papers from the Fourth Pillar Conference are now available from the Cultural Development Network website. These include papers presented by eminent speakers and arts and culture experts from around Australia. Included are a number of papers by City of Port Phillip representatives
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Papers from the Beyond Cultural Policy Symposium
The papers from the Beyond Cultural Policy symposium have been published in two formats. A selection of papers has been published in the Cultural Vitality supplement to the Autumn 2004 edition of the journal Overland. Remaining papers are available on below as pdf format documents.
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Donald Horne: Repertoires for Being Human
Donald Horne believes that the concept of a pluralist society is fundamental to cultural vitality and that a workable code of tolerance between differing and conflicting groups is fundamental to social harmony. He suggests that the idea of 'cultural repertoires' of ways of thinking and acting may be more engaging than the idea of a 'culture', enabling us to speak of the cultivation of curiosity and wonder, creative engagement, pleasure in variety, pursuing things for their own sake, developing the mutual and productive sides of the human potential and accepting contrasting ways of being human.
As to the deployment of a cultural perspective, Horne distinguishes between four useful ideas. The first is that since all plans for action are simultaneously economic, social and cultural, taking cultural perspectives into account is a practical necessity. The second is that any policy should be examined for its 'cultural factor', its opportunities to help enrich ways of life. The third is a specific concern for people to have a chance to create things for themselves, becoming producers as well as consumers. He then speaks of the special concern with 'the imaginative world of the intellect and the arts', on which he suggests three 'rights': the right of citizens to engage with the heritage of past intellectual and artistic activity, the right of citizens to engage with new intellectual and artistic activity and the right of citizens to engage in their own forms of intellectual and artistic activity.
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Jon Hawkes: Governance and Engagement
Jon Hawkes reconsiders some of the ideas developed in his publication The Fourth Pillar of Sustainability, Culture's Essential Role in Public Planning.
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John Montgomery: Cultural Quarters, Examples And Success Factors
Using the example of the Temple Bar precinct in Dublin this paper reviews the concept of the cultural quarter as an approach to urban regeneration. It considers the policy objectives of making such designations, the approach to 'making' places which are deemed to be more rather than less artistic and cultural in the broader senses of the word, and the methods and mechanisms for implementation and ongoing management. The paper is in effect a review of practice, and draws heavily on case studies and experiences from the Temple Bar project to illustrate how such projects can be managed and what they can achieve.
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Barbara Norman: Cultural Vitality - Can it be Planned For?
The richness of a community can be found in its cultural vitality. Including the cultural dimension into the planning and design of a city or region is essential to long term sustainability. The question is can it be planned for and if so how? Successful examples of facilitating cultural vitality will be presented for discussion.
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Peter Browning: This is not an Arts Policy.!! Putting Culture and Creativity First
In this presentation I will outline how Brisbane City Council has managed to move a step further in locating culture and creativity as central to urban policy. The presentation will outline the policy framework and the assumptions and tensions underpinning its development. In addition I will outline the new policies implementation strategy, levers for change, lead projects, key questions and challenges in shifting the weight of tradition.
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Dr Chris Dew: Material Culture/Migration Landscape/Merri Creek
The paper uses the example of the Merri Creek path in inner Melbourne to raise questions about history, migration, the environment and urban planning. A close look at the material culture of the area reveals a large and varied group of stakeholders with differing interests and investments in their public spaces.
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Dr Lisanne Gibson: Cultural policy and the built environment- Cultural Vitality for Who?
This paper will challenge the assumptions of 'cultural planning' that cultural animation programs (of the type common in Australia to date) will enhance levels of social inclusion. Through analysis of culturally driven regeneration and urban development programs the paper will discuss some of the tools (including the development of cultural icons, public art programs, and community art programs) used to construct 'cultural precincts'. Just what is governments' main rationale for the development of cultural precincts? To what extent are such cultural precincts connected to local community and cultural industry needs? It is suggested that a real, not rhetorical, whole of government approach is the only way in which the field of culture can be managed in a way which is culturally and economically sustainable and politically and socially defensible.
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Dr Michael Kennedy: Culture and the Sustainable Peninsula
Michael Kennedy's passion is 'joined up government', moving from 'silo-based' approaches to a community-focused model which addresses social, economic and environmental objectives in a 'connected' way. This, he argues, is 'more than a little bit different', requiring a paradigm shift of both political and organisational levels, as the Mornington Peninsula Shire is doing with its 'Sustainable Peninsula' approach.
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Jenny Macaffer: The Hope Chest - In Search of the Human Spirit
Optimism and hope are central to the health and well being of individuals and communities. Growing hope and caring for the future is a process of discovery and unfolding. The session aims to provide an introduction to the various forms of expression that hope takes in our lives and our communities and to emphasise the role of hope on our path to positive growth toward health and happiness. The value of hope is often overlooked and undervalued. Signs of hope can help us to explore and articulate our dreams and visions. Working for collective hopes and dreams in partnership with others can help us to carry our aspirations forward together into the future.
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Dr Chris McAuliffe: Acknowledging Subcultures
This presentation considers the role of subcultures and their contribution to the cultural richness of communities. Operating away from the mainstream and sometimes in direct opposition to it, subcultures play an important role in defining a community's cultural aspirations. Significant cultural shifts in the mainstream often have their origins in subcultural practices. Can an environment conducive to flourishing subcultures be influenced by policy makers or do they, because of their essentially organic structures, avoid the influence of cultural bureaucrats?
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June Moorhouse: From Property to People to KPI's: Fremantle's Experience Managing Culture
This paper gives an insider's view of life, culture and local governance since the 1960's in beautiful, historic Fremantle, WA. Fremantle has transformed over the past 40 years from a run-down, rough port city to a prized location offering a cosmopolitan life style and significant real estate investment opportunities. How did it happen? What effect has all this change had on the community and its culture? Tracking the process of gentrification and examining the key role of local government in Fremantle's development during that time, June Moorhouse offers a personal insight into this fascinating community and a critique of the approach taken by Council's past and present.
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Irene Verins: Victorian Health Promotion Foundation
A model of health which values the socioeconomic determinants of health provides an ability to work across diverse sectors, deconstruct policy and program silos, and work towards the creation of a common language and framework for action. Using VicHealth's Mental Health and Wellbeing Conceptual Framework, this session will explore the links between arts participation, cultural vitality and health through the example of the Arts in Local Government for Mental Health and Wellbeing Scheme: a programmatic response initiated by VicHealth and implemented in 16 rural and metropolitan municipalities.
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Bronny Burger: Tranceplant - Synthesising Cultural and Environmental Aspirations
This paper considers the experience of Tranceplant, a group of people from all walks of life who seek to combine re-vegetation or other environmental work with music, performance, art and dance. It will address how organisations can engage with the aspirations of creative and diverse communities. More specifically it discusses what inhibits and enables community projects to get off the ground and how the positive potential of subcultures within our community can be harnessed. It asks how governments can help these projects to develop. What are the positives and negative sides of working with bureaucracy and finally how can organisations—more specifically Tranceplant—contribute to the community's engagement in important policy issues.
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James Nagy, Fair Go For Rock Music: Rock and Roll Aint Noise Pollution
Melbourne has a world-class music industry, underpinned by a vibrant and diverse live music culture. Bands and performers play throughout the metropolitan area every night of the week. This cultural asset is under threat due to the issue of environmental noise pollution. Across the city music venues are scaling back, or eliminating entirely, their live music operations due to the threat of fines or license suspension. Each closure restricts the opportunities for new talent to be nurtured. The effects will cascade through the industry and the cultural life of the city for years to come. This is happening on a case-by-case basis. There needs to be a broad community discussion of the cultural impacts of this situation.
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Stacey Anderson: The Newcastle Experience
Newcastle is a city consciously reinventing itself and has recognised the importance of replacing the nation wide perception of the city as a monoculture - that of a Steel City. With the decline in the manufacturing sector issues of urban renewal, community cohesion and unemployment need to be addressed for the city to successfully reinvent itself into a new image of a vibrant, diverse, sustainable regional city with a great future. Cultural policy and planning are key tools in the on-going facilitation of this growth.
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Beyond Cultural Policy: Biographical notes on presenters
