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Professor Antony Eddison
Dean of Design
Antony
Eddison has worked internationally as a practitioner, entrepreneur and
tertiary-level educator within the creative industries. He has held
several senior academic positions in both Australia and the United
Kingdom and is recognized as an expert on Art & Design education.
Antony has been involved with trans-national education in Art &
Design since the early 1990's and has worked closely with institutions
and governments in France, Poland, Estonia, China, Pakistan, Malaysia
and Mauritius, just to mention a few.
Antony believes that we live in exciting and formative times for the
creative industries both pedagogically and economically, particularly
in Asia. He sees creativity as truly interdisciplinary and global in
its nature and works to foster relationships with between the creative
arts and science and business.
Antony sees creativity as a process that underlies many other
activities including innovation, research, collaboration, learning and
entrepreneurship, and this is now widely accepted as the key to
economic competitiveness in advanced economies such as Singapore.
Creativity and innovation are no longer useful add-ons; they are what
drive the economy. The ability to produce and attract creative people
and industries will be a vital component of economic competitiveness in
the next decades, and Antony sees academia working closely with
business and industry as a key component for mutual success.
Antony's research interests are in the creative arts and new media and
exploring the edges of disciplines where these boundaries can cross
over and merge. A particular interest is the application of Virtual
Reality technologies; Antony has presented several conference papers
and journal articles with an emphasis on archaeological reconstructions
and he has worked with a number of international collaborators. He has
also spent much time getting very dirty on archaeological excavations
around the world and has been invited to speak on his work at
conferences organised by CERN in Paris and the Greek Ministry of
Culture in Athens amongst others.
