Welcome to the first issue of the Craft Australia Research Centre journal craft + design enquiry. The journal aims to advance high quality research undertaken by craft, design and related sectors by publishing research on specific themes and areas. Papers…

Alkaliphiles  are a class of extremophilic microbes capable of survival in alkaline (pH roughly 8.5-11) environments, growing optimally around a pH of 10. More than 100 alkalotolarent  bacteria were isolated from water sample of mula-mutha river. Majority of the isolates were gram positive, motile rods except…

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In this paper, I offer an explanation of my own working art practices as set within the context of the spaces of the archive and presented as a series of questions arrived at through action, illuminated in turn by anthropological…

Using National Museums Liverpool (hereafter NML) as a case study, this paper will examine the challenges facing the museum as it begins to respond to the development of migratory practice.  For the purpose of this paper I intend to define…

This paper addresses the ethics of inter-cultural collaborative art practice from an Australian perspective, through examining aspects of the project, Weaving the Murray. Anthropologist Deborah Bird Rose in her recent book, Reports from a Wild Country; ethics for decolonisation (2005)…

This paper describes a practice-led research project undertaken in Australia in 2006, in which I sought to explore the relationship between radical changes in cultural/geographical environment and the production of unique forms of material culture. In this case the shift…

This essay serves as an introduction to five papers first presented at a conference held in the UK in 2006. Migratory Practices called on scholars and practitioners to report on crossings between the fields of anthropology, art, craft and design.…