Creative Flourishing

Welcome to Creative Flourishing, a podcast that dives into the latest creative arts research and practice and asks how engaging with this might aid in human flourishing and have a positive impact upon our wellbeing. Each episode profiles a different form of creative practice, journeying from curating exhibitions at the Venice Biennale through to creative writing responses to apocalyptic futures and everything in between. Creative Flourishing is produced through the Research Centre in Creative Arts and Human Flourishing at the University of Queensland, with funding support from the Faculty of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences.

Creative Flourishing is a arts podcast hosted by Unknown Host, with 5 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80.

Unknown Host hosts Creative Flourishing, a arts show with 5 episodes published.

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  Episode #2

  Digital Infrastructure and Australian Literature

  Sep 27, 202632 minS2

  Did you know that the oldest digital humanities project in Australia is the AustLit database? This database of Australian literature and storytelling operates on a networked data model and has over one million work records. In this episode you’ll hear from AustLit Director Maggie Nolan, Gamilaraay scholar and BlackWords coordinator Dominique Chen, and creative writer, researcher, and AustLit user Matt Bapty. You’ll learn about how this piece of digital infrastructure can reshape our understanding about creative writing in Australia, and about the different datasets and projects it houses, from Blackwords, to the Australian Drama Project, to the in-development Women in Brisbane project. This definitive biographical and bibliographical database not only documents Australia’s literary culture but also makes connections between agents and works. It generates possibilities for future creative arts research and practice, including via the AustLit Creative Writing fellowships, which since recording have been funded by the Copyright Agency and will lead to two new creative works arising out of the AustLit database. This episode is hosted by Emma Cole, and edited and mastered by Anthony Frangi. Matt Bapty is the Creative Flourishing research assistant. AustLit is available through subscribing libraries, schools, educational institutions, and other organisations and can be accessed online here .

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  Grief and Creativity

  Aug 30, 202639 minS2

  How does art represent grief? And how can making art help us process trauma? Creative Flourishing returns for Season Two to explore how connecting grief with creativity can help us to find purpose, meaning, and connection in the midst of suffering and pain, preserving vulnerability and emotion and allowing us to be alive, rather than numb, to the full spectrum of our experiences. Join creative writer Lesel Dawson and filmmaker Jimmy Hay to discuss how creativity can help us process grief and visualise the unnameable. You’ll hear about the work of the Good Grief Festival, Lesel and Jimmy’s collaboration on the film Lost Property, and the way they move between their work as scholars and creative practitioners whilst navigating a field that can cut close to the bone. This episode is produced in partnership with the University of Bristol’s Centre for Grief Research and Engagement. The episode is hosted by Emma Cole, and edited and mastered by Anthony Frangi. Matt Bapty is the Creative Flourishing research assistant. Details about the Good Grief festival are available here. The film Lost Property can be watched here. You can read about the Bristol Centre for Grief Research and Engagement here. You can also read Lesel's recent article 'Grief, Creativity, and Ambiguity: The 'as if' of Artistic Play' here .

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  Episode #5

  Museums and Inclusivity

  Feb 4, 202635 minS1

  <p>Museums are archives which preserve objects that define historical and cultural events. We visit museum exhibitions to learn about the world's present and past and to come face-to-face with artefacts that played a role in history. But what happens when these artefacts only tell part of a story, or give one demographic's perspective? How do we fill these gaps in the archive, to make museums inclusive spaces where all demographics can see themselves reflected?</p> <p> </p> <p>This episode dives into a reverse collecting project which originated from a gap in Queensland Museum's collection relating to maternity and m...

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  Episode #4

  Medea in Exile

  Jan 11, 202659 minS1

  <p>During the first two decades of the twenty-first century, Australian audiences encountered Greek tragedy in mainstage theatres in domesticated adaptations more than in any other format. Medea was a popular source text, whether in Wesley Enoch's adaptation, which collides Euripides' and Seneca's material with a narrative about intergenerational cycles of violence in Indigenous Australian communities, or Kate Mulvany and Anne-Louise Sarks' pressure cooker of a play, where audiences watch the last hour of Medea's children's lives play out in real time. This episode explores a new Australian adaptation of Medea which explodes the myth out in the opposite direction...

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  Sounding Symmetries

  Dec 11, 20250 minS1

  <p>Symmetry is all around us. Since the time of the ancient Greeks, from the legend of Pythagoras through to Galileo and Descartes, it has been theorised through science and embodied through music. But how are the creative arts responding to symmetry today? Can the concept help communities to flourish, enriching them through the arts whilst educating them about maths?</p> <p>In this episode mathematician Artem Pulemotov and musicologist Denis Collins join host Emma Cole to discuss how the concept of symmetry can bridge the divide between arts and science. We explore Artem and Denis' unique partnership and how...

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