Tamsin Kerr is interested in cross-cultural mythology, landscape memoir, and community memory in imagining, planning, and celebrating place. Tamsin is the Director of the Design, Art, Land (DAL) Centre at the Cooroora Institute in Queensland. She ru
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Tamsin Kerr is interested in cross-cultural mythology, landscape memoir, and community memory in imagining, planning, and celebrating place. Tamsin is the Director of the Design, Art, Land (DAL) Centre at the Cooroora Institute in Queensland. She runs workshops and seminars on creativity in strategic and institutional planning, is a writer and artist, and lives with the well-known furniture designer maker, Ross Annels and their two creative daughters. Previoulsy a senior environment and social policy bureaucrat, Tamsin now lives in the Sunshine Coast hinterland of Australia, writing and researching under the view of the mountain. She has a PhD on the role of metaphor, memoir, mythology, and memory in community imaginings and celebrations of place, titled "Conversations with the Bunyip", which argues that creative community festivals and monsters, such as bunyips, re-embedd humans in nature and reconcile cultures.
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