Welcome to our Metaverse: New Directions in Sustainability

The arts provide education possibilities to transform personal, social and cultural dimensions. It is essential we interrogate the positive outcomes of arts rich experiences as we strive to create a more sustainable way of living amidst a growing recognition of systemic inequities and the need for change.

Conference presentation Placemaking and digital data sites for a sustainable arts education(s) for Creative Convergence 2021, The Canadian Network for Arts & Learning.

Chief Investigators:

A/Prof Mark SelkrigDr Kathryn Coleman, and Dr Emily Wilson

“Metaverse Map Base Image,” An Arts Education imperative: New directions for sustainability, accessed December 7, 2021, https://omeka.cloud.unimelb.edu.au/arts-education-imperatives/items/show/9.

The Metaverse Map is an interactive visual cartography of the key exhibition and repository platforms that constitute the research metaverse for An Arts Education imperative: New directions for sustainability (2021). Using the map as a wayfinding instrument, audiences can direct themselves across the research network and refer back to it for guidance.

Jessica Laraine Williams, Dr Kathryn Coleman, Amanda Belton, and Neda Sajadi. Metaverse Galleries Walkthrough (2022), from the ‘An Arts Education imperative: New directions for sustainability’ project. Melbourne Graduate School of Education, University of Melbourne. First shown at ‘Small Data is Beautiful: Analytics, Art and Narrative’ symposium, February 2022.

As artist in residence, my key contribution to the project was the collaborative curation and design of interactive, 3D virtual spaces hosted on Mozillla Hubs.

https://doi.org/10.26188/16564848.v1