CAMERON ROSE - RESEARCH

DESIGNING RESEARCH IMPACT FOR SOCIAL INCLUSION

The book chapter Designing Research Impact for Social Inclusion co-authored with Dr. Catherine Flynn describes how design methodologies can be incorporated into social science research to provide greater impact for diverse audiences and marginalised communities.

"The immediate benefits to designing research impact for social inclusion will be to create multiple channels of communication to a diverse range of stakeholders for improved services and education....the interdisciplinary relationships formed through this collaborative approach can create new partnerships, networks and expertise that can be applied to future projects."

VICHEALTH HOSPITALITY DRINKING CULTURES

In collaboration with Turning Point, the Animating Alcohol Culture Change project will produce animations to both tell the story of male drinking culture in the hospitality industry and provide strategies for harm reduction. The VicHealth funded project will be launched in July 2021 across Victoria.

DESIGN RESEARCH DOCUMENTARIES

Design research documentaries are an effective method to investigate people and place. A well produced design research documentary facilitates all stages of design development by generating insights, visualising ideation, prototyping and testing. It records and tells the story of design development from discovery to delivery.

View a short video introduction here.

NEAMI IDENTITY TOOL

An individual's personal identity is central to understanding ourselves and our place in the world. It can also be difficult to describe and articulate. An identity tool was co-designed with community mental health organisation Neami Group. A review of current tools was undertaken followed by co-design workshops and prototype testing in Melbourne, Brisbane and Perth. The Neami Identity Tool will be used during interviews with consumers to enhance mental health services.

LIVING SPACES PRATO

Living Spaces Prato used ethnographic documentary to explore the lived experience of the residents, workers and visitors of Prato, Italy. The project was an Australian-Italian collaboration that produced five short documentaries by Australian architecture students. The videos are design research documentaries and the method could be applied to many design research methodologies. For an in-depth description and analysis of the project please refer to Ethnographic Documentary as a Translator of Architecture and Urban Research.

The Living Spaces Prato documentaries can be viewed here.

DIGITAL BRIDGES

The Digital Bridges Network (DBN) links filmmakers and media artists in Australia and South Korea to explore social and community issues relevant to both countries. This first project explored the experience of aging through video and virtual reality. The DBN investigated the common challenges aging populations face, and how we can celebrate the lives and legacy of elder Australians and South Koreans.

The DBN was funded by a DFAT Australia-Korea Foundation research grant and was conducted in partnership with Korean National University of Arts.

Go to Digital Bridges Network

REASONS FOR USE PACKAGE

This research investigated how communication design could translate a therapeutic instrument into an online resource that facilitates therapeutic conversations with consumers to explore issues relating to the interaction between their mental health and alcohol and/or other drug use. The Reasons for Use Package was developed by Simon Kroes and Kevan Myers at Nexus, St. Vincent's Hospital Melbourne. The online version needed to not only increase access to the tool, but also embody the spirit of the interaction through its UX design.

Launched in 2018, it is available for use by social workers, clinicans and others involved in drug/alcohol and mental health services. It was funded by a St.Vincent's Hospital Catalyst Grant and developed with fellow communication design researchers Mark Guglielmetti and In Dae Hwang.

See https://reasonsforusepackage.com/

SOCIAL RESEARCH AND ANIMATED DOCUMENTARY

Animated documentary has been identified as an effective means of capturing and disseminating social research. The Straight Up project investigated the lived experience of carers and people with mental health and substance abuse issues. Edited audio interviews were edited and animated, expressively communicating the lived experience of carers and consumers.

Other research using animated documentary includes the My Life Now project that advocated for children with parents in the criminal justice system and OzChild that explored the promotion of foster care.

The My Life Now project was the subject of the journal article Animating Social Research Findings co-authored with Dr. Catherine Flynn

POETIC DOCUMENTARY AND VISUAL ANTHROPOLOGY: REPRESENTING INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY

This PhD research considered the politics and the aesthetics of representation of people with an intellectual disability and their carers. Disability in film and video has gone through many incarnations. Early cinema portrayed disability as something to be feared or cured. Later films such as My Left Foot (1989) celebrate an individuals triumph over their disability. Rainman (1988) highlights the extraordinary abilities some people with an intellectual disability possess. But in documentary not all people with an intellectual disability have a story that conforms to these narratives. Indeed some disability advocates object to the representation of disability as a tragedy to be overcome through heroic effort.

Stylistically the films use a poetic mode of representation; particularly useful as many of the film's subjects were unable to tell their story in their own words. So instead of being told their story by others the films evoke their lives through sound and image.

This research has produced two major projects, the videos and exhibition for the Kew Cottages History Project and the What Next? series of documentaries. It also resulted in the book chapter 'Poetic Documentary And Visual Anthropology: Evoking The Subject' in Material Inventions: Applying Creative Arts Research edited by Estelle Barrett and Barbara Bolt.

The exegesis is available at academia.edu

RESEARCH PROJECTS AND PUBLICATIONS

Book Chapter

Rose, C. and Flynn, C. (in press) ‘Designing Research Impact for Social Inclusion’ in P. Liamputtong (ed.) Handbook of Social Inclusion, Research and Practices in Health and Social Care, New York: Springer.

Rose, C. 2014. ‘Poetic Documentary and Visual Anthropology: evoking the subject’, in E. Braithwaite and B. Bolt (eds.) Material Inventions: Applying Creative Research, London: I.B. Tauris.

Journals

Rose, C., Alexander, J. and Grassi, S. (2020) ‘Ethnographic documentary as a translator of architecture and urban research: perspectives on an Australian-Italian intercultural experience.’ The Design Journal.

Rose, C. and Flynn, C. 2018, ‘Animating social work research findings: a case study of research dissemination to benefit marginalised young people.’ Visual Communication.

Conference Proceedings

Rose, C. 2006. ‘Haiku and the teaching of digital imaging to non-art and design students.’ ACUADS Conference proceedings , Melbourne, Victoria.