Indigenous Cultural and Creative IP
Indigenous Cultural and Creative IP
Recognising and protecting Indigenous cultural and creative Intellectual Property is key to the continuation, reclamation and revitalisation of Indigenous culture and cultural expression. Centring Indigenous approaches to learning and creating, this Melbourne MicroCert provides an understanding of Intellectual Property in Indigenous creative and cultural practices with a focus on cultural…
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Recognising and protecting Indigenous cultural and creative Intellectual Property is key to the continuation, reclamation and revitalisation of Indigenous culture and cultural expression. Centring Indigenous approaches to learning and creating, this Melbourne MicroCert provides an understanding of Intellectual Property in Indigenous creative and cultural practices with a focus on cultural management. It’s valuable for anyone seeking to respectfully engage with Indigenous knowledges, creative arts and music practice and practitioners, and to support the protection and reclamation of Indigenous culture, heritage and creative practice. Learn to source information with appreciation of interconnectedness: Develop the skills and capabilities to source knowledge with, and for, Indigenous communities while appreciating its relationality and interconnectedness, including with Country, beyond a Western framework. Engaging with diverse case studies, you’ll examine protocols of knowledge finding and explore the significance of Country in reclaiming, reviving and restoring Indigenous knowledge and cultural and creative practices in Australia. Understand how to safely preserve knowledge: Learn different approaches to knowledge safe keeping, including via digital means. Discuss issues and protocols surrounding access, responsibilities and gatekeeping, as well as reflect on the role of unconscious bias in cultural management. Engage in Indigenous technologies and creative practice: Using making as a way of learning and enacting cultural safety, you’ll engage in a weaving activity, plus hear stories about how these skills were learned and reawakened. You’ll collect and prepare the weaving material, research and engage with Indigenous technologies from Country, and learn weaving techniques to create an object for gathering. You’ll follow cultural protocols throughout and reflect on the making practice.
Skills and learning outcomes: By the end of this course, you’ll be able to: Respond to the significance of Country in the continuation, reclamation and revitalisation of Indigenous cultural and creative practices in Australia; Follow cultural protocols, and demonstrate an understanding of how to use materials and traditional Indigenous technologies from Country; Critically reflect on and recognise the role of unconscious bias embedded in structural privilege while enacting principles of cultural safety.
EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTION
Established in 1853, the University of Melbourne enjoys an outstanding reputation with world rankings, consistently being placed as Australia’s leading comprehensive research-intensive university, and is one of the world’s top 50 (as per Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2015 – 2016 and Academic Ranking of World Universities 2015). There are over 80 different undergraduate study areas and over 270 graduate courses at Melbourne for students to choose from. The University has extensive global networks and has seven campus locations across Melbourne and rural Victoria.
