On cleaning up old email I found these cursory ideas in 2013 when I was invited to Curtin.

Here are notes I jotted down as part of a sketch for a Centre of Excellence idea but here I am only listing the (then) resources

WE HAD (in 2013)…

• Specialties in Film Screen Journalism Architecture Media Internet Studies Library and Information Studies..
• Access to GLAM (*Galleries Libraries Archives Museums•an onsite Gallery)
• A Library that wants to develop a research field
• New Visualisation Facilities and iVEC partnership (all 4 WA universities)
• A new Visualisation Degree/Connective Media area /Curtin Data Visualisation Facility (one display installed already.)

MAIN MISSION

• Integrating Humanities research with new tools and new ways of communicating and sharing with audiences
• Creating tools and case studies to show humanities scholars and organiSations how to make convincing visual arguments
• Developing, maintaining analysing and advising how these tools methods and projects are best used/taught/deployed

AREA

• Developing tools and methods to help scholars make visual arguments
• Train curators and visualisation specialists in contextual technical and humanistic skills and competencies
• Evaluate whether tools and content best suits specialist and generalist audiences
• Provide single entry point for interested industry and NGOs to contract projects and employ staff

OPPORTUNITIES

• New intellectual precinct Curtin town
• New science museum, expansion of Perth and entertainment industry
• Urban visualisation and idea prototyping, digital humanities
• New forms of curation and collaborative technologies
• New low-cost means of design prototyping and production, community hosting, online and on demand printing and creation, the internet of things, multimedia and creative archives..

LOOKING BACK

Now 9-10 years later, after a UNESCO chair (first for the University), involvement in the Computation Institute, grants, talks, workshops, involvement in other research centres and institutes, and a fairly long list of publications, completed PhD theses, grants, and some key projects (camera tracking in 3D, photogrammetry, mixed and augmented reality, Linked Open Data, GIS apps and systems, serious games and virtual environments), I look back at this and think about what happened in the end , my part, what didn’t eventuate, and why. The ideas aren’t useful any more (at least in their original form) but the reasons why some of them were not developed is worth pondering a bit further, maybe in a new post.