A/prof Linda Knight
Director, Mapping Future Imaginaries
Linda is an artist and academic who specialises in critical and speculative arts practices and methods. Linda devised ‘Inefficient Mapping’ as a methodological protocol for conducting fieldwork in projects informed by ‘post-‘ theories. In her role as Associate Professor at RMIT University, Australia Linda creates transdisciplinary projects across early childhood, creative practice, and digital media.
Email me: linda.knight@rmit.edu.au
Danielle Andrée
Director, Mapping Future Imaginaries
Dani Andrée is a Melbourne-based artist and Masters practice-led research candidate at RMIT University. Her installation and process artworks are concerned with subjective experiences of duration within everyday spaces.
Andrée’s current research explores tensions between the use of cultivated plants as artwork materials and their existence as living, self-determining subjects. The potential for dialogical relations between plants and humans is investigated in an effort to counter instrumental interpellations of plant-life.
Email me: danielle.andree@rmit.edu.au
Prof Suzie Attiwill
Suzie specialises in Interior Design at RMIT School of Architecture and Urban Design. Suzie is recognised internationally for her work. Regularly invited as a visiting professor, Suzie was awarded an RMIT Research Award for Impact in Design. Suzie’s research explores interior and interiority in relation to contemporary conditions of living, inhabitation, subjectivity, pedagogy and creative practice. The philosophy of Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari is a force in this research which is conducted through a practice of designing with a curatorial inflection attending to arrangements (and re-arrangements) of spatial, temporal and material relations.
Email me: suzie.attiwill@rmit.edu.au
A/prof Marnie Badham
Marnie has a twenty-five-year history of art and social justice in Australia and Canada. Marnie’s research sits at the intersection of socially-engaged art practices, participatory methodologies and the politics of cultural measurement. Through aesthetic forms of encounter and exchange, her work brings together disparate groups of people to examine and affect local issues. Her current focus includes a series of creative cartographies registering emotions in public space; expanded curation projects on the aesthetics and politics of food; and a book project The Social Life of Artist Residencies: connecting with people and place not your own.
Email me: marnie.badham@rmit.edu.au
Kyle Bush
Kyle’s practice focuses on post-mining landscapes and critical design pedagogies, cultivating cultures of design practice centred on co-production and relationality. He has worked collaboratively on projects that engage with the exclusion of various communities from shared processes and narratives, aiming to build capacity and distribute agency during periods of transition.
Email me: kyle.bush@rmit.edu.au
Dr Andreia Penaloza Caicedo
Andreia is a Colombian architect researching Children’s Architecture Education (ChAE). Andreia was a volunteer in the Bogotá slums, sharing with children life values through reading and playing games. Andreia realised architects can learn with/for children by observing their behaviours and connections to their inhabited spaces, wider neighbourhoods and city environments.
Email me: andreia.penaloza.caicedo@rmit.edu.au
Yanina Carrizo
Yanina is an Argentinean born and Melbourne based PhD candidate at RMIT University. Her research applies the protocol of ‘inefficient mapping’ (Knight, 2016) and other experimental methods to focus on ‘dust’ and how humans, nonhumans and more-than-humans are becoming with pollution, climate change and ecological injustices. Drawing on posthuman and new materialist theories, she challenges and reimagines child-centred educational approaches. Yanina currently teaches in a kindergarten. She has worked in primary and early childhood education for over 15 years both locally and internationally.
Email me: s3825170@student.rmit.edu.au
Dr Michael Crowhurst
Michael is interested in schooling and sexualities and gender identities, social justice and education, reflective and diffractive practices, arts-based methodologies, and the place and uses of dialogue in education. Michael is working with Dr Michael Emslie using collective/auto/ethnographic and arts-based methods to explore gesture, multiplicity and pedagogical spaces. Michael likes working in unfunded non-hierarchical spaces that enable the deployment of an eclectic assemblage of theoretical stances that are fit for purpose. Michael co-convenes the edge/centre with Mic Emslie. He also paints.
Email me: michael.crowhurst@rmit.edu.au
Eloise Florence
Eloise is interested in how we remember through places. Eloise explores how we might be remembered in the future through the marks we will leave on the earth, traces of ourselves in the digital world, and the remnants and scraps of media we will leave behind. Eloise is currently writing a book about how the traces of bombing in Berlin factor into contemporary debates about national identity and historical responsibility of former Allied countries. Eloise is a research associate at RMIT University and a tutor at Monash University.
Email me: florence.eloise@rmit.edu.au
Prof Dan Harris
Dan is a Principal Research Fellow, School of Education, Design and Creative Practice at RMIT University, Australia. Dan recently completed an ARC DECRA Fellowship investigating creative ecologies in secondary school and across the education lifespan. Their research focuses on the intersection of creativity, performance and digital media at both practice and policy levels, upon youth cultures and cultural, ethnic and gender diversities, and on performance and activism. Dan has an international reputation in public pedagogy, activism, and creative approaches to education, research and community/industry partnerships.
Email me: dan.harris@rmit.edu.au
Dr Romaine Logere
Romaine is a creative researcher whose work analyses transdisciplinary practice. She is particularly concerned with the role differences and experiential phenomena play in knowledge. She currently assists in the development of online courses for RMIT Europe and the European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT). She is the co-producer and host of the podcast Mindmersion, a series dedicated to the practices and concepts of online learning design and pedagogy.
Email me: romaine.logere@gmail.com
Prof Anna Hickey-Moody
Anna is in Media and Communications, RMIT, Australia, and is an Australian Research Council Future Fellow 2017-2021. Anna also holds a Vice-Chancellor Senior Research Fellowship. Anna works with arts practice as a research method and is known for her expertise with affect theory, qualitative and practice research. Anna has developed a philosophically informed, cultural studies approach to youth arts as a subcultural form of humanities education. Anna has published extensively, books include Youth, Arts and Education (Routledge), and Unimaginable Bodies (Sense).
Email me: anna.hickey-moody@rmit.edu.au
A/prof Keely Macarow
Keely coordinates Creative Care for the School of Art, RMIT University, Australia. Keely collaborates with artists, designers, social scientists, housing activists, health and engineering researchers in Australia, Sweden and the UK to explore how creative interventions can be applied for public exhibition and performance within housing, urban and healthcare settings. Keely views her research as a matter of social, spatial and health justice and her extensive success with international funded projects enables her to extend the boundaries of artistic practices.
Email me: keely.macarow@rmit.edu.au
Patrick Macasaet
Patrick is Lecturer and PhD candidate at RMIT Architecture and, co-founder of SUPERSCALE – a research and ideas-led experimental architecture studio operating between the nebulous terrains of speculation and reality; experimental and pragmatic; between fiction and non-fiction. He currently leads the RMIT Architecture Immersive Futures Lab that explores and develops the potentials of gaming technologies and allied immersive media for architectural design speculations, processes, representations, pedagogy, and future practice.
Email me: patrick.macasaet@rmit.edu.au
Prof Annette Markham
Annette is Co-Director, Digital Ethnography Research Centre, RMIT. Annette is internationally recognised for her arts-based intervention research and development of epistemological frameworks and methods for digitally-saturated social contexts. Annette’s recent research focuses on critical approaches to algorithms and datafication, speculative methods for building better ethical futures, data literacy and critical pedagogy, and rhetorical analysis of human-machine communication through automated, algorithmic systems.
Find me: http://www.annettemarkham.com
Dr Nancy Mauro-Flude
Nancy is a performance artist represented by Bett Gallery, Tasmania. Nancy lectures in critical theory and 21st C mediums and leads the ‘Engineering Flora Fiction and Data Fauna‘ studio, at the College of Design and Social Context, RMIT University. Founder of the Holistic Computing Network, Nancy is writing about chthonic feminist Internet cultures and the provenance of radio stars.
Email me: nancy.flude@rmit.edu.au
Dr David Rousell
David is in Creative Education at RMIT University, Australia. David is also a Visiting Research Fellow at Manchester Metropolitan University, and adjunct Research Fellow at Southern Cross University. David’s research combines theoretical work in affect and sensory studies, new materialisms, and post-humanism with his professional background as an environmental artist, designer, and arts educator. David’s work contributes to methodological innovations in education and social research, focusing on the development of new methods that combine artistic, digital, and ethnographic approaches to social mapping.
Email me: david.rousell@rmit.edu.au
Dr Benjamin Sheppard
Ben is a multi-disciplinary artist and academic working within a contemporary drawing practice. His recent PhD explored the potential for ‘drawings in-progress’ to better think about and represent the national self in Australia. Ben is an Associate Lecturer in the Bachelor of Fine Art (Drawing) at RMIT University, Australia and holds a BFA in drawing with Honours from the VCA, Melbourne. Ben has exhibited locally, interstate and overseas with work collected in the USA, France, Italy, the UK, Norway and Germany.
Email me: ben.sheppard@rmit.edu.au
Prof Wendy Steele
Wendy is a writer, activist, teacher and public speaker passionate about sustainability-led action on climate change based at RMIT University in Melbourne. She works at the nexus of the environmental humanities (literature and philosophy) and critical social sciences (human geography and urban governance/policy) bringing together critical theories, qualitative methodologies and participatory design practices that explore human-nature relationships within the context of the urban age.
Prof Kit Wise
Kit practices as an artist, art writer and curator. He has held over 15 solo exhibitions in Australia, America and Italy, exhibited in group exhibitions in Australia, China, Taiwan, Korea, the UK, France, Germany, Italy, Spain and Holland, and has published extensively including for Frieze, unMagazine and Continuum: Journal of Media and Cultural Studies. Kit is Chair of the Executive Council of ACUADS (Australian Council of University Art and Design Schools) and Secretary for the Deans and Directors of Creative Arts, Australia. He is currently Professor of Fine Art and Dean of the School of Art at RMIT University. He is represented by Sarah Scout Presents, Melbourne.
Find me: http://www.kitwise.com
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