On 24 November Sir George Cox, a celebrated UK design policy expert and former Chariman of the UK's Design Council, came to Brisbane to address industry leaders and senior government figures. Sir George is best known for The Cox Review on Creativity in Business, which explored design as both a cross-link between creativity and innovation, and as a crucial economic enabler and critical business innovator.
Read more about Sir George's Luncheon Presentation on Queenslandersign's website: 
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Image courtesy of Sir George Cox



Sir George Cox: Designing More Innovative, Productive Businesses, Brisbane

Dr Peter Sutton is an Affiliate Professor at the University of Adelaide (Earth & Environmental Sciences) and the South Australian Museum (Anthropology). He is a Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia, and is located at the South Australian Museum, where he writes on the social and cultural history of the Wik people of Cape York Peninsula. Dr Sutton is an anthropologist and linguist. He has lived and worked with Aboriginal people in remote areas of Cape York Peninsula and the Northern Territory, and in urban and rural centres, since 1969, and has worked with the Wik people since 1976. He has assisted with more than 6O Indigenous land claim cases in many different parts of Australia from 1979 to 2O11. He is also an  uthor/editor of 13 books, and has published over 2OO academic and other papers, mainly in the fields of Aboriginal land tenure, languages, art, and Indigenous policy. He is the recipient of the 2O1O John Button Prize for political writing for his book The politics of suffering: Indigenous Australia and the End of the Liberal Consensus.


CIAF SYMPOSIUM 2011 - Dr Peter Sutton

Dr Maura Reilly is Professor and Chair of Art Theory at the Queensland College of Art, Griffith University. As founding curator of the Sackler Center for Feminist Art at the Brooklyn Museum, Dr Reilly conceived and launched the first exhibition and education space in a US museum devoted exclusively to feminist art, during which time she organised numerous exhibitions, including the critically acclaimed Global Feminisms (2OO7), co-curated with Linda Nochlin, and the permanent reinstallation of The Dinner Party by Judy Chicago (2OO7). She has taught art history at Tufts University and Pratt Institute, has been a regular contributor to Art in America, and has worked in the Education  department at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. Dr Reilly has held senior curatorial positions at the American Federation of Arts and at Location One, both in New York City, where she organised major exhibitions related to feminist and postcolonial theory.


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