Changemakers
Passionate about the development of the social innovation landscape in Australia, and with diverse professional experiences ranging from facilitation and public speaking to communications and event management, I am currently Projects Director for Collaborative Consumption in June 2010. Collaborative Consumption describes the big shift from hyper-consumption in the 20th Century to new forms of sharing, bartering, lending, swapping and renting in the 21st Century reinvented by online platforms and social networks. Prior to this, I spent two years as Communications Manager for a national architectural practice, and have also helped the Australian Social Innovation Exchange (ASIX) with communications for its inaugural Social Innovation Camp in March 2010. More recently, I have been collaborating on Gennio.org, a web-based social enterprise generator and marketplace, and she also acts as the Australian connection for MakeSense.org, a social business connecting social entrepreneurs worldwide through the web. I was Managing Director of The Brightest Young Minds Foundation in 2009 and am currently on their Advisory Board. With a Bachelor of Creative Industries (in Creative Writing and Theatre Studies) from Queensland University of Technology (2004), I also completed a Graduate Certificate of Business in Philanthropy and Nonprofit Studies from QUT in 2009 and am currently enrolled in a Master of Applied Innovation and Entrepreneurship from The University of Adelaide.
Gavin Artz is the CEO of the Australian Network for Art and Technology (ANAT); a national body bringing together creative innovation, science and technology.
Through extensive financial and operational management experience across multinational corporations (Coinco and Royal Vendors) and community not for profit organisations, Gavin has developed a passion for governance and strategy. He will graduate with an MBA from the University of South Australia in August 2010, holds a BA from La Trobe University in Politics and has started down the long CPA road.
At ANAT Gavin is involved in developing transdisciplinary research and development opportunities focusing on the creative; from the arts through to the sciences. Working closely with Academia but separate from it gives Gavin a unique perspective, taking in creative practitioners, research, government and business. He currently serves on the MEGA SA working group, where he lectures and provides business development mentoring to participants of this University accredited entrepreneurship masterclass series. He is company Secretary for the Australian Design Alliance which has a membership of peak bodies from architecture and urban planning, through graphic design and the arts.
Gavin actively advocates for new approaches to creative commercialisation to both government and business and developed the concept of Ancillary IPs. He has written and presented on IP and commercialisation both in Australia and internationally.
PHD Candidate | Urban Research Centre
Lecturer | Industrial Design | School of Engineering
I am part of the team organising the first Australian Social Innovation Camp. I have worked in the areas of online community engagement for a number of years and with people from all over the world. The projects I have been involved in have taken me to some of the most remote areas of the world where I have been able to learn more about the differences that still exist in our world. I decided to concentrate my working life looking for ways to connect people that want to help others. I am very excited seeing how the interest in social innovations continues growing in Australia and around the world
I work with communities and NGO's interested in social change in outer-Western Sydney. My particular interet is in the uses of social media for powerful story-telling about people's lives and the scope for those stories to change other lives in turn. (Anyone else admire Studs Terkel?)
Senior Lecturer and Director of Teaching and Learning at UTS School of Design. Visual Comm. Designer in London for 15 years before emigrating to Australia.
I was recently invited to Parsons New School for Design in NY to do a week of seminars for staff on teaching and learning. It reminded me that there are many students working on 'cool' projects 'dreamed up' by academics all over the world when real and important problems don't get the design attention they deserve.
I have been a sessional staff member teaching Professional Management for Artists and Designers, and Business Practice for Artists and Designers since 2005. Since July 2009 I have been working in AAD to establish a multidisciplinary research and professional practice studio. The aim of the studio is to provide experiential learning opportunities through client focused projects, and the facilitation of multidisciplinary research that informs student and professional studio practice in Art, Architecture and Design. Design thinking will be the core methodology of project activity and research facilitated by the studio. Design Thinking isn't the exclusive realm of designers or a single specialist body of knowledge. Design Thinking involves the development and engagement of collaborative teams that cross disciplinary boundaries enabling the application of multiple lenses to consider and address a problem.
In August 2004 I commenced a PhD, at the Australian Institute for Social Research, The University of Adelaide. The PhD is part of an Australian Research Council Linkage project which involved the South Australian Government’s Department of the Premier and Cabinet, Strategic Projects Division. My thesis aims to increase our understanding of the relationship between academic discourse on the value and role of creativity in regional economic development and policy discourse and instruments in South Australia that seek to support and foster a culture of creativity.The title of the PhD thesis is 'Thinking Logically, Acting Creatively: Ideas for fostering the development of a Creative Economy in Adelaide'. Since 2004 I have also undertaken consultancy projects that have worked with regional communities to understand their creative communities and work on ways in which they can support their growth and sustainability. From August 2008 to June 2009 I was employed by Arts SA as the Principal Adviser in the Public Art and Design Program.
My career working in the Arts and Design sector started upon graduating from the South Australian College of Advanced Education (now UniSA) in 1987 with a Degree in Design (Ceramics). In 1998 I accepted a year long studio tenancy at the JamFactory St Peters, and in 1999 I established my home-studio based ceramic design practice producing work for exhibition, retail, undertaking public art commissions, and designing/prototyping /manufacturing handmade tiles and producing tiled furniture for Freedom Furniture and Myer Grace Bros.
From 1999 until 2004 I was Executive Director of Craftsouth Centre for Contemporary Craft and Design Inc. Craftsouth is a-not-for-profit Industry Association of over 300 designer/makers and artists in South Australia.
Prior to working at Craftsouth I undertook Postgraduate studies in Innovation and Entrepreneurship at the University of Adelaide. As part of this course I worked with the JamFactory to investigate the feasibility of developing a Product Management Unit that would work with JamFactory studio tenants to develop viable production ranges, assisting them in the business side of the product development process including negotiating design licenses for the production to be outsourced to manufacturers.
Senior Lecturer, School of Design Studies, College of Fine Arts at The University of New South Wales.
Have a passion for enterprise and creating businesses that sustain… sustain socially… sustain environmentally… sustain financially…
Currently working in financial services with a deep personal interest in First World Micro-Finance, Peer to Peer Lending, and Lending Circles.
Have mentored 100s of New Start Entrepreneurs via the New Enterprise Incentive Scheme (NEIS) at the Eastern Suburbs Business Enterprise Centre.
With a comprehensive background across Private Enterprise, Government, and Not-For-Profit Organisations, I've worked with organisations including the Western Australian Tourism Commission, Australian Opera, and St.George Bank.
My greatest inspiration to work in the context of social enterprise has come from my time working with Steve Lawrence at WorkVentures (the founding partner of initiatives including JobFutures & Social Ventures Australia).
Right now: co-founder and a principal partner at Quantum Compass Coaching - a boutique coaching practice based in Sydney, Australia. Here we maintain a focus on assisting Business owners established in their enterprises for three years or more. We also provide business advisory and coaching for new start or intending entrepreneurs.
New-ish to community services work, interested in innovation, keen to learn more.
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