Landcare PlaceStories

The Landcare PlaceStories Project is an exciting three-year national and international arts and environment sector partnership planned for 2008-2010. The goal is to work with rural and regional communities across Australia to improve their viability and sustainability in economic, environmental and social terms, by making better use of key cultural assets (stories, histories, knowledge, networks).
 
Over the last two years, Feral Arts has been consulting with Landcare networks and other stakeholder groups (Arts Queensland, Australia Council, local arts organisations, local government, schools, traditional owners, and a number of state government agencies) exploring the potential of digital storytelling systems in responding to social, economic and environmental challenges and opportunities facing rural communities. The Landcare PlaceStories Project forms part of a larger Australia Council and Arts Queensland funded community cultural development program aimed at seeding innovative and sustainable digital storytelling communities within (and across) a range of sectors including environment, education, health, arts and community. The Landcare PlaceStories Project builds on the success of Dalrymple Digital Landcare – a series of small scale demonstration digital storytelling projects with rural communities in Dalrymple Shire in north Queensland. We have been partnering with the Dalrymple Landcare Committee (DLC) in testing prototypes of PlaceStories – a digital storytelling software system being developed by Feral Arts.
 
The strategy underpinning the Landcare PlaceStories Project is to create a dynamic, environment-focused digital storytelling network, connecting rural communities across Australia and internationally and empowering them to engage in a wide range of social, economic and environmental challenges.
 
Over the next three years Feral Arts and Landcare will be rolling out the use of PlaceStories throughout Australia and internationally.  
 
2007 – Queensland (Dalrymple Landcare Committee)
2008 – Queensland (14 NRM regions)
2008 - New South Wales, South Australia (pilot projects)
2009 – Qld, NSW, SA (all NRM regions)
2009 - all other states (pilot projects)
2010 – National (all NRM regions) & international (pilot projects)

For more information on Landcare PlaceStories contact:
Chloe Tanner e: chloe@landcare.org.au
Kevin Guy e: kevin@feralarts.com.au
 
 


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