the roLe of the artefaCtcommunity. By developing awareness and understanding of arts/science practice, synapse aims
to advance the role the arts plays in australia’s innovation system (synapse 2009).
3 http://www.creativityandcognition.com (accessed on 6 september 2009).
4 http://www.creativityandcognition.com/betaspace/ (accessed on 18 march 2009).
5 action research is essentially a theory- based approach grounded in real life that, in simplified
form, consists of a cyclical process of conducting an investigation, taking action based on the
results of that enquiry, followed by evaluation of the improvements in the situation under
consideration. action research requires intervention in order to study impact of change on a
given situation and thereby understand the situation under consideration (hughes 2009).
6 experimental research is a collection of research designs which use manipulation and controlled
testing to understand causal processes. generally one or more variables are manipulated to
determine their effect on a dependent variable. The experimental method is a systematic and
scientific approach to research in which the researcher manipulates one or more variables, and
controls and measures any change in other variables.
7 The term ‘material culture’ is often used by archaeologists as a non- specific way to refer to
the artefacts or other concrete things left by past cultures. The study of material culture is
concerned with the relationship between persons and things in the past and in the present. it
can be contrasted with other cultural forms such as ideas, images, practices, beliefs and language
that can be treated as independent from any specific material substance.