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Community, Culture, Commerce

The Intermediary in Design and Creative Industries

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Authors:
  1. Jock McQueenie

    1. QUT Design Lab, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia

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  2. Marcus Foth

    1. QUT Design Lab, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia

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  3. Greg Hearn

    1. QUT Design Lab, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia

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  • Presents intermediary practices in an accessible format using applied examples and case studies from real world contexts
  • Identifies and responds to limitations in project design with new collaborations across Community Culture and Commerce
  • Challenges traditional approaches to Corporate Social Responsibility with academic rigour and praxis reflections

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Table of contents (8 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxv
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  2. Processes of Intermediation: An Introduction

    • Jock McQueenie, Marcus Foth, Greg Hearn
    Pages 1-11

  3. Conceptual Groundings of Intermediary Practices

    • Jock McQueenie, Marcus Foth, Greg Hearn
    Pages 13-29

  4. North West Digital Stories: A Regional Case in the Disability Sector

    • Jock McQueenie, Marcus Foth, Greg Hearn
    Pages 31-45

  5. BeefLegends: Connecting Food Producers and Consumers Across Borders

    • Jock McQueenie, Marcus Foth, Greg Hearn
    Pages 47-80

  6. Intermediation as Praxis

    • Jock McQueenie, Marcus Foth, Greg Hearn
    Pages 81-94

  7. Intermediation in Design: Designers as Intermediaries

    • Jock McQueenie, Marcus Foth, Greg Hearn
    Pages 95-113

  8. Intermediaries in the Future

    • Jock McQueenie, Marcus Foth, Greg Hearn
    Pages 115-128

  9. Learning to Be an Intermediary

    • Jock McQueenie, Marcus Foth, Greg Hearn
    Pages 129-147

  10. Back Matter

    Pages 149-152
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About this book

As digital environments become increasingly individualised, instant, ubiquitous, and disintermediated, this book demonstrates the continuing relevance of intermediaries at the intersection of design, creativity, community engagement, and corporate social responsibility. The authors examine intermediaries as enablers of mutual benefit and offer a proactive, interventionist, and holistic approach to intermediation practice that steps beyond design thinking. By means of case studies that employ the 3C project design methodology—Community, Culture, Commerce—the authors provide an accessible introduction to intermediation at the nexus of theory and practice and signpost new opportunities for researchers and practitioners in the post-COVID environment.

Authors and Affiliations

  • QUT Design Lab, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia

    Jock McQueenie, Marcus Foth, Greg Hearn

About the authors

John “Jock” McQueenie brings creativity to social inclusion and corporate social investment. As a professional intermediary, Jock has been brokering unconventional partnerships by designing and implementing 3Cs projects for over 20 years in a wide range of sectors, industries and regions throughout Australia and Aotearoa/NZ. His two most recent projects were designed as part of a Professional Doctorate (Doctor of Creative Industries) at Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia.

Marcus Foth is a Professor of Urban Informatics in the School of Design, Queensland University of Technology. For more than two decades, Marcus has led ubiquitous computing and design research into interactive digital media, screen, mobile and smart city applications. Marcus founded the Urban Informatics Research Lab in 2006 and the QUT Design Lab in 2016.

Greg Hearn is a Research Professor in the School of Design at QUT. His research examines social, business and future workforce issues in the adoption of innovation. He is a lead researcher in the Advanced Robotics for Manufacturing Hub and a Chief Investigator in the ARC Training Centre for Collaborative Robotics in Advanced Manufacturing.


Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Community, Culture, Commerce

  • Book Subtitle: The Intermediary in Design and Creative Industries

  • Authors: Jock McQueenie, Marcus Foth, Greg Hearn

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-99-7889-2

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Singapore

  • eBook Packages: Business and Management, Business and Management (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2024

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-99-7888-5Published: 14 December 2023

  • eBook ISBN: 978-981-99-7889-2Published: 13 December 2023

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XXV, 152

  • Number of Illustrations: 2 b/w illustrations, 18 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Industries, Design, general, Media and Communication, Science Education

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