MIECAT’s Professional Doctorate in Therapeutic Arts Practice course is delighted to host our Arts-based Research Festival once again. For five days, we will immerse ourselves in spaces where arts materials, modalities and forms are embedded into research.
The festival’s public events (Tuesday and Wednesday) include: a workshop on sensual film encountering (Regenerative Intimacies); a research training evening on designing meaningful encounters with AI (Sam Hains); a fireside chat following a return from the 2026 ECArte conference (Kim Swan); a presentation on tracing the secret lives of cities (Lachlan MacDowall); and a further research training event, focusing on befriending ethics in auto|also-ethnography.
There is no cost to attend these events. However, please register by following the QR codes on the event-specific pages of the programme. You will also see whether events are online, on-site, or hybrid.
This year, we will be back at the MIECAT studios, 374 George St, Fitzroy, Melbourne.
Thursday–Saturday will see our doctoral community–students and candidates, supervisors, alum, MIECAT staff and invited guests– gather to support our Years 1-4 student/candidates as they present their research inquiries to date. These presentations are hybrid.