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🎨 ARTAURA - ART BEYOND BARRIERS reimagines construction site barriers—symbols of division, disruption, and exclusion—into community-driven canvases of cultural expression. Through a React.js platform enhanced with AI analytics and community matching, Artaura empowers local artists, residents, and councils to co-create inclusive art projects, ensuring that the walls that separate us become the art that unites us.
The idea master, story-weaver, and benevolent dictator steering the ship. Currently shaping cyber security strategy at Transport for NSW, Sangamitra blends vision with precision to keep innovation on track and storytelling on point.
Mad coder meets design maven. Ujjavala crafts secure, scalable systems for millions with a passion for clean code, agile thinking, and tech leadership that sparks efficiency and elegance.
The tech whisperer. Prabhat transforms chaos into clarity, making AI practical, retiring legacy systems with grace, and building tight-knit teams that thrive under pressure.
Transforming barriers into canvases that connect communities, strengthen democracy, and advance Indigenous outcomes.
In every Australian city, construction barriers are part of the urban soundtrack. Tall, grey, and often plastered with "Keep Out" signs, they line streets, divide pathways, and separate people from places. They are designed for safety, but they also carry an unintended message: this is not for you.
To many, these barriers are symbols of disruption, division, and exclusion. They cut across the rhythm of daily life---reminders of distance between communities, and of the walls, both visible and invisible, that fracture belonging.
But what if these barriers could tell a different story?
✨ The Spark of Artaura
Artaura was born from a simple, radical idea: to transform these walls of exclusion into gateways of connection. Instead of grey concrete, imagine walking down a street where barriers come alive with vibrant art, layered with stories of First Nations voices, data visualisations about community wellbeing, or interactive experiences powered by artificial intelligence.
What if, instead of dividing, barriers became places of gathering?
What if, instead of silence, they spoke in colour, sound, and story?
What if, instead of exclusion, they invited us in?
By transforming barriers into living canvases powered by art, AI, and data, Artaura turns obstacles into opportunities. Each installation creates local jobs for artists, storytellers, and technologists, while embedding Indigenous voices and designs at the heart of public space, honouring Country and culture. Beyond aesthetics, Artaura strengthens community cohesion by inviting diverse groups---long-time residents, new citizens, and young people---to co-create works that reflect their shared future. It also builds digital confidence, giving people safe tools to engage online and connect offline. At a time when Australia faces urgent challenges in Closing the Gap, bridging divides, and helping newcomers find their place in democracy, Artaura reimagines barriers as vibrant invitations to belong, contribute, and grow together.
Artaura reimagines construction site barriers---symbols of division, disruption, and exclusion---into community-driven canvases of cultural expression. Through a React.js platform enhanced with AI analytics and community matching, Artaura empowers local artists, residents, and councils to co-create inclusive art projects, ensuring that the walls that separate us become the art that unites us.
Stephane, a migrant artist, struggled to find visibility in her new city. When she uploaded her mural design to Artaura, the AI matched her with a local council project, complete with plagiarism checks to ensure originality. Her mural went up in the heart of her suburb, a vibrant testament to her culture. Through this, she earned a paid opportunity, formed meaningful community connections, and saw her vision celebrated publicly.
**Testimonial:* "Artaura turned my vision into a visible legacy---I feel seen, respected, and inspired."*
Amira wanted her Year 6 students to learn democracy in a fun, safe, and inclusive way. Using Artaura, her students voted on mural designs, explored Australian cultural legacy through QR codes, and safely contributed ideas to a collaborative art project. The platform ensured their data was secure, the site was safe, and no inappropriate content appeared. The classroom buzzed with teamwork, community awareness, and hands-on civic learning.
**Testimonial:* "The kids loved creating and voting---learning democracy while respecting culture and safety!"*
Alex's company needed to meet social procurement obligations while boosting brand visibility. By sponsoring local mural projects through Artaura, he highlighted Indigenous and migrant voices, monitored community impact via dashboards, and leveraged authentic marketing opportunities. The initiative strengthened his CSR profile while connecting the brand to meaningful community engagement.
**Testimonial:* "Our brand now stands for meaningful community engagement---Artaura made it measurable and memorable."*
Leila wanted to support Indigenous artists while ensuring cultural visibility and protection from plagiarism. Artaura provided a platform with AI checks for cultural sensitivity, tracked employment pathways, and shared verified data. Her community could own their narrative, celebrating culture authentically and creating jobs while safeguarding art and stories.
**Testimonial:* "Artaura honors our artists and culture while giving us the tools to protect and share our stories authentically."*
Phase 1: Foundation (0--3 months)
Phase 2: AI & Analytics (3--6 months)
Phase 3: Scale & Engagement (6--12 months)
👉 Artaura is art beyond barriers: unity made visible.
The Artaura platform features a robust, enterprise-scale architecture combining a React.js frontend (including PWA support) with an API Gateway, load balancer, and a microservices backend comprising User, Art, Project, AI, Notification, and ABS Data services. AI/ML pipelines handle computer vision, NLP, recommendation, and predictive analytics, interfacing with PostgreSQL, Redis, S3, and a vector database, while integrating external APIs such as ABS statistics, social media, mapping, and payment gateways. Microservices expose RESTful endpoints for user management, art submissions, project engagement, AI analysis, and community matching, supported by Redis caching, event-driven real-time data flows, geospatial services, and dataset-enhanced AI APIs. Security is enforced through JWT authentication, RBAC, encryption, and model governance, while horizontal scaling, Kubernetes deployments, multi-level caching, CI/CD pipelines, and Docker-based IaC ensure high performance and reliability. The system supports 500,000+ concurrent users, sub-200ms API response, sub-5s AI analysis, <50ms database queries, and 99.9% uptime, with GPU-accelerated AI, PostGIS-enabled PostgreSQL, Redis clustering, and full observability, enabling AI-powered community matching, cultural sensitivity assessment, and integration with Australian government datasets.
Artaura employs a sophisticated multi-agent AI ecosystem where specialized agents---spanning cultural intelligence, community connection, creative analysis, and decision support---collaborate autonomously via a central orchestrator and shared context store to generate meaningful community engagement and cultural bridge-building. Cultural agents analyze visual, textual, and historical data to assess authenticity, sensitivity, and educational opportunities, while community agents match artists, optimize project allocation, and predict social impact. Multi-modal processing integrates visual, textual, audio, contextual, and social signals for holistic understanding, coordinated through inter-agent communication protocols to ensure quality and emergent insights. The system continuously learns from real-world outcomes, ABS datasets, and Scanlon Institute social cohesion metrics, enabling proactive interventions, predictive social modeling, dynamic artist network optimization, and emergent cultural bridge discovery. Expected outcomes include 94--98% cultural recognition accuracy, 92--97% artist matching success, 89--95% community impact prediction, and enhanced project success rates, all powered by computer vision, NLP, recommendation engines, predictive analytics, and sensitivity-aware AI, forming an autonomous, self-improving ecosystem that continuously optimizes cultural connections and community outcomes.
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Description of Use Integrated into project calculations to determine skill level 1 occupation rates (45%), education partnership potential with TAFE (16%) and universities (42%), and skills upgrade opportunities. Used to match art projects with appropriate skill development pathways and calculate community skill development impact. Primary Implementation Files: - /Users/ujja/art-beyond-barriers/src/services/absDa taService.js:249 - Uses skill level 1 occupation rates (45%) for gallery statistics - /Users/ujja/art-beyond-barriers/src/services/absDa taService.js:207,221 - Calculates skill development impact for employment outcomes Show options… UI Components: - /Users/ujja/art-beyond-barriers/src/components/Das hboard/Dashboard.js - Multiple references for skills development metrics display - /Users/ujja/art-beyond-barriers/src/components/Pro jects/Projects.js:304,317 - Shows learning and skills development opportunities - /Users/ujja/art-beyond-barriers/src/components/Soc ialImpact/SocialImpact.js:177,281 - Displays skills development section
Description of Use Used in socialCohesionService.js to measure art projects' social impact including multiculturalism support (85% see as good for Australia), community engagement (56% involved in groups), and interfaith relations. Calculates how art programs can address immigration concerns (49% think too high), economic pressures (41% struggling financially), and community safety issues, providing social cohesion metrics for project evaluation.
Description of Use Implemented in learningTrainingService.js to calculate art learning opportunities with 23% work-related training participation, 55% online delivery preference, and gender-specific training patterns. Addresses barriers like time/work constraints (34-40%) and financial barriers (31-35%), informing flexible learning program design for art projects.
Description of Use Powers employment opportunity calculations in absDataService.js including recent graduate employment rates (84%), workforce diversity metrics, and gender pay gap data (11.5%). Used to calculate employment outcomes for art projects and diversity targets including female participation rates and disability inclusion opportunities.
Description of Use Used in absDataService.js to calculate youth engagement potential (81% of young people engaged), skilled artist availability, and employment outcomes for art projects. Powers project insights showing employment rates (77.1% total, 74.2% female, 80% male), qualification benefits (+21pp employment advantage), and apprentice opportunities. Displayed in gallery statistics and project submission forms.
#Strengthening-social-connections-for-community
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#Indigenous_outcomes #Data_equity
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#Democracy-in-practice
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#Navigating-the-digital-seas
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