Indigenous Cultural and Creative IP
What you will learn
Gain contemporary skills and knowledge for your job now.
Recognising and protecting Indigenous cultural and creative Intellectual Property is key to the continuation, reclamation and revitalisation of Indigenous culture and cultural expression.
Centring Indigenous approaches to learning and creating, this Melbourne MicroCert provides an understanding of Intellectual Property in Indigenous creative and cultural practices with a focus on cultural management.
Itβs valuable for anyone seeking to respectfully engage with Indigenous knowledges, creative arts and music practice and practitioners, and to support the protection and reclamation of Indigenous culture, heritage and creative practice.
Learn to source information with appreciation of interconnectedness
Develop the skills and capabilities to source knowledge with, and for, Indigenous communities while appreciating its relationality and interconnectedness, including with Country, beyond a Western framework. Engaging with diverse case studies, you'll examine protocols of knowledge finding and explore the significance of Country in reclaiming, reviving and restoring Indigenous knowledge and cultural and creative practices in Australia.
Understand how to safely preserve knowledge
Learn different approaches to knowledge safe keeping, including via digital means. Discuss issues and protocols surrounding access, responsibilities and gatekeeping, as well as reflect on the role of unconscious bias in cultural management.
Engage in Indigenous technologies and creative practice
Using making as a way of learning and enacting cultural safety, you'll engage in a weaving activity, plus hear stories about how these skills were learned and reawakened. You'll collect and prepare the weaving material, research and engage with Indigenous technologies from Country, and learn weaving techniques to create an object for gathering. You'll follow cultural protocols throughout and reflect on the making practice.
Who you will learn from
Learn from skilled academics and professional experts who will share invaluable knowledge you can use in your job.
Tiriki Onus
Yorta Yorta man, Pro Vice-Chancellor (Indigenous) and Head of Wilin Centre for Indigenous Arts and Cultural Development
Tiriki is a successful visual artist, curator, performance artist, opera singer and lecturer in Indigenous Arts and Culture at the Victorian College of the Arts. At the Wilin Centre, he fosters innovation in research, development, advocacy and presentation of Indigenous arts and cultural practice. In 2015 he was the inaugural Hutchinson Indigenous Fellow, and is Associate Dean, Indigenous in the Faculty of Fine Arts and Music and co-Director of the Research Unit for Indigenous Arts and Cultures.
Dr Megan McPherson
Senior Lecturer in Art and Intercultural Research
Megan is a settler artist, intercultural researcher and educator, and has taught at university level since 1996. Her focus is in printmaking, textiles and installations, and publishes in the areas of identity, social media use, Indigenous knowledges and pedagogies, and learning and teaching experiences in the creative arts. Megan is based at the Wilin Centre for Indigenous Art and Cultural Development, and the Research Unit for Indigenous Arts and Cultures in the Faculty of Fine Arts and Music.
Sally Treloyn
Associate Professor in Ethnomusicology, Non-Indigenous
Sally (they/them) is a specialist in participatory ethnomusicological research with Indigenous musicians and music. Treloyn was taught to sing and research the public dance-song genre Junba by senior Ngarinyin, Worrorra and Wunambal Elders in the Kimberley in the early 2000s. In the Faculty of Fine Arts and Music at The University of Melbourne, Treloyn teaches through Wilin, co-directs the Research Unit for Indigenous Arts and Cultures and is Associate Dean of Diversity and Inclusion.
More from this series
Take multiple courses to deepen your knowledge, or ask us about stacking toward a full degree.
The Wilin Online Cultural Literacies series
The Wilin Online Cultural Literacies series centres Indigenous approaches to learning and creating. Each micro-credential in the series features an act of material making designed to spark conversation, develop cultural literacies and foster respectful engagement with Indigenous knowledges.
Explore more from the Wilin Online Cultural Literacies series:
- Acknowledgement of Country (Micro-credential)
- Sharing of Indigenous Knowledges (Micro-credential)
- Indigenous Community Research (Micro-credential)
Course details
Want to know more about micro-credentials? Frequently Asked Questions
This course is valuable for anyone seeking to deepen their cultural awareness and engage respectfully with Indigenous cultures and communities.
It's particularly beneficial for teachers and education professionals, arts workers and practitioners, community and cultural development workers, and corporate, business or government leaders.
There are no eligibility requirements.
By the end of this course, you'll be able to:
- Respond to the significance of Country in the continuation, reclamation and revitalisation of Indigenous cultural and creative practices in Australia
- Follow cultural protocols, and demonstrate an understanding of how to use materials and traditional Indigenous technologies from Country
- Critically reflect on and recognise the role of unconscious bias embedded in structural privilege while enacting principles of cultural safety.
This micro-credential runs over six weeks.
Your total time commitment is 42 hours, which includes approximately:
- 9 hours guided learning
- 20 hours independent study
- 13 hours assessment activities.
Assessment:
- A digital portfolio in two parts that presents both a creative outcome and reflective text and video presentations: weaving creative project and cultural management research (100%).
Indigenous cultural and creative IP can be taken as a stand-alone micro-credential or you can complement it with any other course in the Wilin Online Cultural Literacies series.
The series includes:
- Acknowledgement of Country
- Sharing of Indigenous Knowledges
- Indigenous Cultural and Creative IP
- Indigenous Community Research.