2. Welcome to the
Queensland Academy
for Creative Industries
(QACI).
Our aim is to be the
world-class learning
environment of choice
for the aspirational
creative generation.
Clever, Creative, Global
3. To do this we have to break free from the patterns
of the past and draw from new influences, people
and disciplines.
We are telling our story, the story of Clever and
Creative Students and the massive impact that
they will have in the 21st Century Global Economy.
Our learning and teaching environment
is at the intersection of practice that is at the
heart of creative industries:
• Knowledge
• Creativity
• Innovation
• Enterprise
• Product
• New Forms
• Design
• The Arts
For us, they are a source of creation,
inspiration, challenge and provocation.
We are calling on these key emphases
to create something fresh in education.
4. The 21st Century
Global Economy
Members of the 21st century
economy share spaces where
knowledge, creativity and
innovation are key economic
drivers and the raw materials for
enterprise and entrepreneurship.
The world is now flatter and we have the opportunity
to see further than ever before.
We share ideas with people from other sectors of
knowledge, industries and countries.
Clever
Creative
Global
5. “Creative Industries
include all sectors
where design,
content and creativity
form the basis of
competitive
advantage on global
economic markets.”
J. Flew,
21st Century Learners, 2005
8. Creative
Industries
The Creative Industries operate at
the intersection of the arts, business
and technology. They leverage
artistic creativity, entrepreneurship
and technological innovation to
create goods and services that
are widely sought after and highly
valued. They encompass the fields
of performance, communications,
design, media, publishing and
information technology.
They are central to the world we
experience, the ideas we discuss
and the innovations that shape
our lives.
12. Human
Creativity –
the ultimate
economic
resource
We are living in an era of
rapid social, technological
and economic change.
Information, ideas
and innovation power
our world.
It’s the time for creative responses
to the questions of our time.
New forms of work are calling for
new sorts of skills and capabilities.
Clever students need to
have their creativity valued
and nurtured so they can
drive the new economy.
13. “If services and
human capital are
the focus of future
economies (rather
than natural resources
and land values),
then creating and
innovation are
core assets.”
Richard Florida,
The Rise of the Creative Class, 2003
16. Clever Careers
The future world of work is a
place of great opportunity for
those with enterprise, flexibility
and adaptability.
Our graduates skills will allow them to move
between, and within, careers. They will design and
shape their career portfolios. Their commute will be
global, not local.
Some possible professions and areas of
practice for our graduates are:
• Design (all facets)
• Architecture, environmental and urban planning
• Electronic publishing and information design
• Advertising and marketing
• Law and commerce
• Broadcast media, journalism and publishing
• Performance and entertainment
• International relations
Our graduates will
reshape traditional
careers and disciplines.
They will create pathways
not follow them.
17. “A company’s most
important asset isn’t
raw materials, transport
systems or political
influence. It’s creative
capital – simply put,
an arsenal of creative
thinkers whose ideas can
be turned into valuable
products and services.”
Florida, R and Goodnight, J,
Harvard Business Review
20. Like-minds
QACI attracts a diverse range of students
from a variety of high schools. While there
is not a typical person who is attracted
to the Academy, they share similar
attributes and areas of interest:
Clever
They are seeking a rich and rigorous academic
curriculum and learning experiences that challenge
their previous learning. They want to learn with
like-minded peers and have an exchange of ideas
with people who hold different sorts of expertise.
Creative
Our students demand an environment where the
culture is designed to foster creativity, innovation
and enterprise. Our students have demonstrated
creative potential through Visual Arts, Film, Music,
Design & Technology, Film and New Media and
Theatre, and they wish to develop their skills in
these areas.
Global
Our students see learning as borderless. They
value ethics and social responsibility. They seek
experiences of other cultures to enhance their
understanding and perspectives.
They think globally but act locally.
21. “Without tradition,
art is a flock of
sheep without
a shepherd.
Without innovation,
it is a corpse.”
Winston Churchill
24. Empowerment +
Engagement =
Extraordinary
Education is at the heart of
global change and opportunity.
Our Academy is equipping
Queensland’s high-achieving
students to thrive and lead in
the 21st century.
It is an age of great challenge but, also a time of
tremendous opportunity. We are equipping students for
these times with customised technologies, an innovative
pedagogy and a new approach to learning of a creative
and enterprise-based curriculum.
QACI is the catalyst for the new
ways of seeing, knowing, doing
and being that will underpin life in
the 21st century.
25. “We all have the
extraordinary
coded within us,
waiting to be
released”
Jean Houston
27. agination and
We use creativity, im
ate products
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techn
eeds
that satisfy human n
28. A new approach to
education
QACI provides a pathway for students who are
seeking:
• a rich and rigorous academic curriculum to
extend their learning
• a community of like-minded peers and a flow
of ideas between people with different sorts of
expertise
• an environment where the culture is one
specifically designed to foster creativity,
innovation and enterprise
• to develop their creative potential through Visual
Arts, Film, Design & Technology, Music, Theatre
Arts and Multimedia.
Learning at the Queensland Academy for Creative
Industries will specifically focus on the elements for
success in the 21st century.
We call this our
Nexus
Paradigm.
New standards
Identifying and building on strengths and talent of
individuals underpinned by a world-class academic
curriculum.
New momentum
Increased learning networks, networks of networks
and learning partnerships with university and
industry leaders.
New outlooks
Connecting with the creative knowledge economy,
planetism, ethics, enterprise.
New attitudes
Shared input, shared responsibility, new ways of
doing business with and for students.
New control
Earned autonomy, self-management, peer
recognition and support are intrinsic forms of
motivation.
New media
Engagement with the digital world in new and
creative ways.
New realities
Flexibility, adaptability, sustainability, creative capital
and life balance.
29. “If our young people can
learn to cross borders
of all types – disciplinary
borders, geographical
borders, relational borders
– they are more likely to be
successful in the world of
21st century work.”
Erica McWilliam, 2008,
The Creative Workforce: How to launch
young people into high-flying futures
30. The International
Baccalaureate
QACI is one of the three Queensland Academies.
This cutting edge senior schooling initiative lets Queensland’s
clever and creative students experience a new form of learning,
campus life and study.
The Academies all offer the International Baccalaureate
Diploma as their core curriculum. The IB program offers a
broad-spectrum, rigorous curriculum, while also presenting
opportunities for specialty.
The IB takes an international approach to education, developing a
global citizenship perspective where students are inspired to create
a better world through intercultural understanding and respect.
www.ibo.org
31. Learner
Profile
The aim of all IB programs is to develop internationally
minded people who, recognising their common
humanity and shared guardianship of the planet,
help to create a better and more peaceful world.
IB learners strive to be:
• Inquirers
• Principled
• Knowledgeable
• Caring
• Critical Thinkers
• Open Minded
• Communicators
• Well-Balanced
• Risk Takers
• Reflective
34. Our
Learning
Environment
The Academy learning ethos
is one of Engagement and
Empowerment resulting in an
environment where the student
emotionally and intellectually
connects.
Engagement through:
• Rigorous curriculim – I.B.
• Digital Immersion
• Creative Industries
• Artistic praxis
• Cultural understanding
• Borderless learning
Empowerment through:
• High care
• High collaboration
• High challenge
• High expectation
35. “Individual creativity
is stimulated by the
work, ideas and
achievements of
other people.
We stand on the
shoulders of others
to see further.”
Sir Ken Robinson,
Out of Our Minds: Learning to be Creative, 2001
37. High concept –
High touch
Problem-solving
Direction
and support
Self-management
Co-creation
Risk-taking
Learning to learn
Dynamic teams
More
38. Accelerated
Real-time
Learning
Our students have access to the
sharpest minds in their fields and
the most advanced tools of learning.
The Queensland Academies are partnered by
Queensland’s leading universities which deliver
advanced experiences for our students.
Our students are gaining real time and active access
to commercial practices that are working within
the digital and cyber environments.
All of these relationships create new
and dynamic opportunities for students
and teachers. We learn from industry
and hopefully industry will learn
new things from us.
It’s a union of like-minded curious
people who are answering the
challenges and questions of now
and tomorrow.
39. “The challenge of
education in this
century is to equip
young people to
aim further ahead
of a faster target.”
Mark Warschauer,
The paradoxical future of digital learning
42. Developing the Individual
Our graduates will be:
Global influencers
Internationally aware pathmakers who lead
with cultural sensitivity toward a future vision.
Learning inspired
Critical and motivated thinkers, responsive
and receptive to challenge and dedicated to
achievement.
Entrepreneurial and enterprising
Risk-takers who understand and value ideas
and the possibilities they can open.
Ideas architects
Analytical problem-solvers, innovative and
creative, making something concrete from
their imaginations.
Life-designers
Self disciplined, resilient and well-rounded
early adaptors; focused yet flexible.
Ethically and socially responsive
Principled and caring practitioners who in
their work and lives display an awareness
of self and others.
43. “We need more
than anything to
foster globally
minded young
people.”
Richard Florida,
The Rise of the Creative Class, 2003
44. The vision
for the future
It’s often said that education is the key to the future. It is.
But a key can be turned in two directions. Turn it one way and you
lock resources away; turn it the other way and you release them.
In education as in business, it’s no longer enough to read, write
and calculate. We won’t survive the future simply by doing better
what we have done in the past.
In the future, we must learn to be clever and creative.
Clever, Creative, Global
45.
46. We hope that you have been engaged and interested
in the Queensland Academy for Creative Industries.
It is a place for innovation, inquiry, ideas and inspiration
and this publication should give you a sense of that.
47. Queensland Academy
for Creative Industries
Kelvin Grove Urban Village
Ph: 07 3552 9333
Email: the.principal@qaci.eq.edu.au
Web: www.qaci.eq.edu.au
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