World Class Facilities

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The Academy is located in a seven-storey state-of-the-art facility on the corner of Musk Avenue and Blamey Street, in the heart of the Kelvin Grove Urban Village Precinct.

  • QACICommunity/commercial/public interface (combining the inclusion of enterprise-related bodies whilst allowing separated accessibility, staff areas, professional development, galleries, auditorium and refectory
  • General entrance areas serve as a meeting place for the majority of public interface activities (Atrium, reception counter, box office, food outlet, auditorium, gallery and media centre)
  • Universal spaces across the entire floor space (open plan/flexible and adaptable for General Learning Area concept) that allow high-end use of electronic media
  • Student Research Centre for all Academy students, quiet study, small group collaboration and further flexible spaces
  • Specialised Visual Art and media rooms including a high end film and broadcasting studio
  • Specialised theatre spaces including a high-end recording studio theatrette.

Technology

  • The Academy infrastructure features cutting-edge technology to facilitate learning and provide enterprises, staff and students with the best possible opportunity to lead the market.
  • The environment is hard-wired with wireless capabilities.
  • After-hours access and "splitting" of access is delivered through smart card technologies.
  • The entire Academy is set up to link all spaces internally and to receive and export large amounts of data externally.
  • Usage of technology varies from formal space usage (fixed) to informal space usage (portable).

Information and Research Centre

Developing innovative students

The Academy's Information and Research Centre assists students to become highly proficient in information research and to develop information literacy knowledge and skills which are essential for successful study and continual life long learning. Electronic and print resources are carefully selected to provide students with relevant, current and curriculum tailored information.

The Academy Virtual Library includes links to databases and online libraries and is a gateway to global links and networks. The Virtual Library also provides a collaborative space to share and interact with the Academy community and external networks.

The Academy partnership with QUT Library gives our students “Associate Borrower’ access to Library resources and services. Such close proximity to QUT Library ensures our students have excellent support with particular emphasis on the Creative Industries resources.

The Centre for the Development of Creative Writing is an Academy Information and Research Centre initiative which will foster student reading and writing as an enrichment activity.

QUT library partnership

A partnership formed with QUT Library will enable Academy students to access university level resources onsite at QUT Library both during the day and on weekends.

Linda Langford, a doctoral candidate in Information Studies at Charles Sturt University argues that we need to agree on the central kernel of information literacy - lifelong learning - as a societal ideal. "It matters not that our views of information literacy are different as long as we have some agreement that the concept is tied to encouraging the learner to continue to be inquisitive, and to challenge viewpoints; to be savvy users of information". (Langford, 2002)

In support of this understanding of the importance of our students' information retrieval skills, the IRC is committed to empowering students to achieve information literacy on the path to becoming independent and interdependent learners. This focus on information literacy mirrors the learning process. The active finding, manipulation, evaluation, interpretation, construction and communication of information is how students learn, enabling them to become lifelong learners and informed decision makers.