Speakers

Lindy Joubert is an Honorary Senior Fellow in Architecture at the University of Melbourne. Founding Director of the inaugural UNESCO Observatory multi-disciplinary research in the arts and was a full-time consultant at UNESCO Headquarters in Paris 2000 -2003. She is Advisor and Board Member of the World Craft Council Asia Pacific region and Immediate-Past Vice President World Craft Council and President Lorne Sculpture Biennale. Member of various Boards and Committees including the Boston, Melbourne, Oxford, Vancouver Conversazione on Culture and Society.

Her research uses the arts for health and community development. In arts health research she led teams for the Community Arts Development Scheme Evaluation for VicHealth, Arts Health Strategy for the Australia Council, the Healing Arts project across Children’s Cancer Centres in Victoria and the Creative Arts Strategy for the new Melbourne Royal Children’s Hospital.

Lindy Joubert has had forty-three national and international solo and group exhibitions of paintings, six in New York City. She is Editor-in-Chief of the UNESCO e-journal www.unescoejournal.com and editor of the UNESCO Global Village Reading Series. Her earlier edited book Educating in the Arts – the Asian Experience, Twenty-four essays was published by Springer and she is currently preparing six sequels with the overall title, ‘Educating in the Crafts – the Global Experience’. The first in the series Craft Shaping Society was published in 2022.​