Creative Tropical City Video Report

Many thanks to the Neo for use of their music and sound scape

Creative Tropical City Report

For a PDF version of the project report, follow this link

http://www.cdu.edu.au/sspr/documents/ctcreport.pdf

we invite comments or feedback

How Can CDU Promote CI?

A meeting was held with the research team and members of the NT Government and Charles Darwin University (CDU) to discuss the implications of the report upon their partnership schedule. Clearly the question tabled was "what's next?"

Bill Wade, Head of School for Creative Arts and Humanities at CDU asked:

In terms of education and training, fostering innovation and nurturing intellect through research, what do you see as some key initiatives CDU and more specifically, the School of Creative Arts and Humanities might pursue to help move Darwin’s creative industries forward?

We invite your comments and suggestions.

Successful Launch at NT Libraries

There was a solid showing from those interested in creative industries (CI) and specifically the launch of the creative tropical cities report last Tuesday evening and Wednesday noon. Creative Tropical City: Mapping Darwin's Creative Epicentres helped to establish empirically what many of us may have already believed, namely, that Darwin is already an established creative city and has tremendous potential to move beyond a grassroots CI industry. "The research could very well have shown the opposite, that we just thought we were a creative city," suggested Donal Fitzpatrick, a key member of the research team. When asked why invest in CI in this time of economic downturn, the research team made it very clear that growing CI in Darwin would present a key way to diversify the economy and make it more resilient to the booms and busts of the current resource dependency. The report showed that CI provided a similar if not higher level of employment and flow through benefits to Darwin than the current tourism industry which receives a great deal more focus and investment. The Creative Tropical City Exhibition will continue at the NT Library through to next weekend February 22.

Launch at NT Library - Feb 10-22

Join us at the NT Library / Parliament house for the launch of Creative Tropical City: mapping darwin's creative industries.

6:30 pm - February 10, 2009