Lindy Joubert was a senior lecturer in Architecture at the University of Melbourne for 28 years (semi-retired 2020 and now Senior Fellow). Lindy’s academic activities are action-based research with collaborative partners. With student and professional groups, Lindy organised the concept design and development across 12 countries for education, health and cultural facilities and structures, including the Cook Islands; Mua Island, Torres Strait; Papua New Guinea; Gichocho, Kenya and for the Maasai Kenya. ‘Samiland’ for the Sami people in Finnish Lapland; the Tiwi Islands; Auroville, India; Los Palos cultural Centre, East Timor (Community Development Vice Chancellor’s Award and over one million dollars in funding granted in partnership with NGO). Lindy has had forty national and international exhibitions of paintings, six in New York City. She is the editor-in-chief of the UNESCO Observatory peer reviewed e-journal; an editor of the UNESCO Observatory Global Village Reading Series for Kidz Book Hub; writes and presents research papers and her edited book Educating in the Arts – the Asian Experience, Twenty-four essays is published by Springer and currently preparing six sequels: Educating in the Crafts – the Global Experience.

• Section 1 Tradition and Aspiration.- Invisible Menders – The Convict Women Who Made the Rajah Quilt.- Learning from Craft.- Custodians of Culture in the Global Market.- Section 2 Cross-Cultural Traditions.- Macassan Influence on Arnhem Land Material Culture.- Section 3 The Woven.- In Her Hands: Bilum Weaving in Papua New Guinea.- Weaving Their Way to Self-Sufficiency.- Al-Sadu Textile Research Project.- Section 4 The Carved.- Learning to Carve Wood in the Trobriand Islands.- Section 5 The Fired.- Firing Sculpture and Its Public Interactions.- Section 6 The Educational - Research and Development.- Contextual Learning – Craft and Design in Technical and Vocational Education.- Educating in the Crafts: The Role of Research Organisations in Continuing Craft Traditions.- Crafting Higher Education in the UK: Tensions Between Policy and Practice.- The Impact of Creative Learning on Young People’s Wellbeing.- Learning Craft through Educational Research Projects – reflectionfrom Thailand.- Section 7 The Digital.- Towards Digital Craft.- Chiang Mai Digital Craft: The Craftsman and Digital Technology.

Lindy Joubert was a senior lecturer in Architecture at the University of Melbourne for 28 years (semi-retired 2020 and now Senior Fellow). Lindy’s academic activities are action-based research with collaborative partners. With student and professional groups, Lindy organised the concept design and development across 12 countries for education, health and cultural facilities and structures, including the Cook Islands; Mua Island, Torres Strait; Papua New Guinea; Gichocho, Kenya and for the Maasai Kenya. ‘Samiland’ for the Sami people in Finnish Lapland; the Tiwi Islands; Auroville, India; Los Palos cultural Centre, East Timor (Community Development Vice Chancellor’s Award and over one million dollars in funding granted in partnership with NGO). Lindy has had forty national and international exhibitions of paintings, six in New York City. She is the editor-in-chief of the UNESCO Observatory peer reviewed e-journal; an editor of the UNESCO Observatory Global Village Reading Series for Kidz Book Hub; writes and presents research papers and her edited book Educating in the Arts – the Asian Experience, Twenty-four essays is published by Springer and currently preparing six sequels: Educating in the Crafts – the Global Experience.

• Section 1 Tradition and Aspiration.- Invisible Menders – The Convict Women Who Made the Rajah Quilt.- Learning from Craft.- Custodians of Culture in the Global Market.- Section 2 Cross-Cultural Traditions.- Macassan Influence on Arnhem Land Material Culture.- Section 3 The Woven.- In Her Hands: Bilum Weaving in Papua New Guinea.- Weaving Their Way to Self-Sufficiency.- Al-Sadu Textile Research Project.- Section 4 The Carved.- Learning to Carve Wood in the Trobriand Islands.- Section 5 The Fired.- Firing Sculpture and Its Public Interactions.- Section 6 The Educational - Research and Development.- Contextual Learning – Craft and Design in Technical and Vocational Education.- Educating in the Crafts: The Role of Research Organisations in Continuing Craft Traditions.- Crafting Higher Education in the UK: Tensions Between Policy and Practice.- The Impact of Creative Learning on Young People’s Wellbeing.- Learning Craft through Educational Research Projects – reflectionfrom Thailand.- Section 7 The Digital.- Towards Digital Craft.- Chiang Mai Digital Craft: The Craftsman and Digital Technology.

Lindy Joubert was a senior lecturer in Architecture at the University of Melbourne for 28 years (semi-retired 2020 and now Senior Fellow). Lindy’s academic activities are action-based research with collaborative partners. With student and professional groups, Lindy organised the concept design and development across 12 countries for education, health and cultural facilities and structures, including the Cook Islands; Mua Island, Torres Strait; Papua New Guinea; Gichocho, Kenya and for the Maasai Kenya. ‘Samiland’ for the Sami people in Finnish Lapland; the Tiwi Islands; Auroville, India; Los Palos cultural Centre, East Timor (Community Development Vice Chancellor’s Award and over one million dollars in funding granted in partnership with NGO). Lindy has had forty national and international exhibitions of paintings, six in New York City. She is the editor-in-chief of the UNESCO Observatory peer reviewed e-journal; an editor of the UNESCO Observatory Global Village Reading Series for Kidz Book Hub; writes and presents research papers and her edited book Educating in the Arts – the Asian Experience, Twenty-four essays is published by Springer and currently preparing six sequels: Educating in the Crafts – the Global Experience.

• Section 1 Tradition and Aspiration.- Invisible Menders – The Convict Women Who Made the Rajah Quilt.- Learning from Craft.- Custodians of Culture in the Global Market.- Section 2 Cross-Cultural Traditions.- Macassan Influence on Arnhem Land Material Culture.- Section 3 The Woven.- In Her Hands: Bilum Weaving in Papua New Guinea.- Weaving Their Way to Self-Sufficiency.- Al-Sadu Textile Research Project.- Section 4 The Carved.- Learning to Carve Wood in the Trobriand Islands.- Section 5 The Fired.- Firing Sculpture and Its Public Interactions.- Section 6 The Educational - Research and Development.- Contextual Learning – Craft and Design in Technical and Vocational Education.- Educating in the Crafts: The Role of Research Organisations in Continuing Craft Traditions.- Crafting Higher Education in the UK: Tensions Between Policy and Practice.- The Impact of Creative Learning on Young People’s Wellbeing.- Learning Craft through Educational Research Projects – reflectionfrom Thailand.- Section 7 The Digital.- Towards Digital Craft.- Chiang Mai Digital Craft: The Craftsman and Digital Technology.