Making Histories:Towards multimodal youth histories of Australian cities. Collaborative Project: Deakin & RMIT
Making Histories:Towards multimodal youth histories of Australian cities. Collaborative Project: Deakin & RMIT
Funding
2019: Major Grant Development funding (Deakin Faculty of Education) - Deindustralisation, schooling and inequalities in the city of Geelong (with Merinda Kelly) - $10 000 over 2019) | Funder: School of Education
2024 Vice Chancellor’s Award: WJC Banks Award for Distinguished Contributions to Teaching and Learning with Associate Professor Jo Raphael Dr Fiona Phillips ($8,000)
Design Week - Arts Learning Lab | Funder: Hopkins W.W. & R.M | Grant ID: CONTR2024/0015
Geelong after dark public spaces, exhibition spaces, event spaces and installations research project.
Geelong Gallery Project - It's the Little Things | Grant ID: CONTR2019/01178
Hands-on Heritage at the National Wool Museum.
May 2021-Nov 2021: REDI Research Development Grant (Eve Mayes, Julianne Moss and Merinda Kelly): Trans-itioning cultural and educational institutions in a time of de/re/industrialisation ($9424) | Funder: REDI Research for Educational Impact
Melbourne Zoo Exhibition and Research - Planet or Plastic. | Grant ID: CONTR2020/00154
Performing transition: Socially engaged art and the immanent pedagogical encounter in the de/re/industrialising city
Sustainable Strategies Geelong Gallery
Towards multimodal youth histories of Australian cities: | Funder: REDI
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Immigration MuseumEditor/Contributor(s)
Moss J, Mccandless TStart date
2025-11-30End date
2025-11-30Research statement
Background Diverse national images and understandings of urban communities are key to creating a fairer, democratic, and more inclusive society. Diasporic and migrant young people are disproportionately impacted by this exclusion from official histories, impeding progress toward the Australian Government’s cultural inclusion and social cohesion priorities (Department of Home Affairs, 2024). The ‘Making Histories’ project addresses this problem using documentary photography as a vehicle for young people to create their own histories and representations of Melbourne and Geelong. Contribution Working in partnership with schools, archives and museums, the project will create new historical images of Australian cities which reflect the diversely situated realities of urban life for today’s young people. Visual representations of cities are closely linked to national identity and public histories and can communicate the “civil intention” (Azoulay, 2012) of a shared history and future which forms the basis for a pluralist ethics and a cohesive society (Edling et al, 2020). Diverse ways of documenting Australian cities by youth in contemporary urban contexts will contribute to current archives often dominated by settler colonial representations. Significance This project establishes significant new intersections at the cutting-edge of research in education, youth studies, and photography by supporting young people to become part of the broader cultural discourse and infrastructures related to the visual representation and historicisation of life in Australian cities. Youth historians will be encouraged to become leaders in their communities by making histories through documentary photography to be exhibited and discussed in public contexts including the Immigration Museum and a public sysmposium with other youth historians, teachers, academics, cultural leaders and museum curators and educators.Event
Youth Historians Symposium and ExhibitionPublisher
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