Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts (PICA)

 

Growing Future Innovators Phase 1

Fogarty Foundation partnership with PICA

Speakers at the launch of the Scoping Study including Annie Fogarty (rt)

Through support from the Fogarty Foundation, Growing Future Innovators is a study into the potential for contemporary arts organisations to profile the theory and practice of innovation through learning programs for schools.

The primary aim of the study is to generate, trial and evaluate the most effective mechanisms for promoting the culture and dynamics of innovation to young people and teachers within primary and secondary school contexts and across arts and non-arts disciplines.

An intended outcome is the creation, discussion and public dissemination of guidelines, exemplars, and rationales for how arts organisations and schools, in Australia and beyond, can work together to grow future innovators. In doing this, the research partnership addresses how we might build an innovation workforce through arts and education.

The year-long scoping study has currently been completed by Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts and Edith Cowan University with additional support from the Department of Culture and the Arts and the Department of Education.

Currently, the Foundation is supporting the implementation of a pilot program with a number of metropolitan and regional primary and secondary schools.  This will form the realisation of the Growing Future Innovators pilot program from 2011-2013.

The Fogarty Foundation contribution goes beyond the financial support until 2013 as it has provided leveraging to other funding sources, including Rio Tinto.

Last updated: December 2010