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The Children’s Sensorium projects, exhibitions and research is led by curator Grace McQuilten with artistic direction from Boonwurrung elder N’Arwee’t Carolyn Briggs. It has been developed with leading contemporary artists including Larissa Hjorth (play and games), Hiromi Tango (colour and textile installation), Fiona Hillary (light), Philip Samartzis (sound), Heather Hesterman (planting and cultivation of plants), Anna Schwann (scent installation) with designer Anthony Clarke (Bloxas) and embodiment specialists Tamara Borovica, Angela Clarke and Camilla Maling (Live Particle). Strategies for emotional resilience and wellbeing have been developed with the guidance of critical mental health researchers Renata Kokanović and Tamara Borovica and industry collaborator, Live Particle.
Tamara Borovica
Dr. Tamara Borovica (she/her) is a Vice-Chancellor's Postdoctoral Research Fellow and creative artist at the Social Equity Research Centre, the School of Global, Urban and Social Studies at RMIT University. Tamara's research focuses on innovative psycho-social approaches to emotionality, mental health, and resilience, with particular expertise in participatory and arts-based methods and interventions. Her work is grounded in using creative, embodied methods to make research more inclusive and transformative for diverse communities. Committed to applied, lived experience and participatory research, Tamara collaborates with groups and communities to improve mental health and wellbeing, ensuring that those directly impacted by trauma, inequality and loss have a voice in shaping the research that affects their lives. Tamara's role in The Children's Sensorium project is evaluation and contributing with mental health advice.
Renata Kokanović
Renata Kokanović is a Professor of Sociology (Mental Health) and an RMIT University Vice Chancellor's Senior Research Fellow. She is the Lead Investigator of the Borderline Personality as Social Phenomena project.