Discovery Projects - Grant ID: DP0452831

Funding Activity

Website
http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/API/grants/DP0452831

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

Island Perspective: A critical examination into Tasmania's internationally recognised regional identity through the contribution of its contemporary studio furniture, 1970-2003. Contemporary studio furniture in Tasmania has a leading national reputation, and international recognition. This project will investigate the practice of the best of contemporary Tasmanian studio furniture to interpret its social and economic history as a reflection on an island culture. The outcomes will be a consolidated body of unique, hitherto undocumented knowledge from the 1970s to the present, which explores identity and place throught the diversity of individual design philosophy and furniture production. The significance of this knowledge will be its contributuon towards a dialogue between political, cultural and environmental positions on an island identity within a global context.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 2004

End Date: 12-2007

Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects

Funding Amount: $204,000.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Visual Arts and Crafts | Visual Arts And Crafts Not Elsewhere Classified | Design History And Cultural Theory

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

The creative arts |

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