Please join us for the book launch of:

Community, Culture, Commerce: The intermediary in design and creative industries

A new monograph written by Jock McQueenie, Marcus Foth, and Greg Hearn, published by Palgrave Macmillan.

Tuesday, 4 June 2024, 4pm for 4.30pm start
QUT Creative Industries Precinct, Z9, Room 607, cnr Musk Ave and Kelvin Grove Rd, Kelvin Grove QLD 4059, map and parking >
Refreshments provided. Please indicate your dietary requirements when you register.

As digital environments become increasingly individualised, instant, ubiquitous, and disintermediated, this book demonstrates the continuing relevance of intermediaries at the intersection of design, creativity, community engagement, and corporate social responsibility. The authors examine intermediaries as enablers of mutual benefit and offer a proactive, interventionist, and holistic approach to intermediation practice that steps beyond design thinking. By means of case studies that employ the 3C project design methodology—Community, Culture, Commerce—the authors provide an accessible introduction to intermediation at the nexus of theory and practice and signpost new opportunities for researchers and practitioners in the post-COVID environment.

With a short keynote address by Professor Ingrid Burkett, Director of the Griffith Centre for Systems Innovation (formerly The Yunus Centre), Griffith University

Ingrid Burkett is a social designer, designing processes, products and knowledge that deepen social impact and facilitate social innovation. She is passionate about developing more effective ways to foster 'the business of social impact'. With qualifications in design, social work, economics, and business, much of Ingrid’s work has focussed on addressing complex problems – from place-based inequities to shifting how we invest and contract better for deeper impact. Ingrid has particular expertise in the design of economic processes and products and is recognised internationally for her work in community finance, social investment, social procurement, social enterprise, and not-for-profit sustainability. She is Past President and Honorary Ambassador of the International Association for Community Development and continues to be committed to fostering deep local and international dialogue about designing innovative and participatory methodologies for regenerative futures.

McQueenie, J., Foth, M., & Hearn, G. (2024). Community, Culture, Commerce: The intermediary in design and creative industries. Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 978-981-99-7888-5.