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.
Email me: linda.knight@rmit.edu.au
Danielle Andrée
Dani Andrée is a Melbourne-based artist and a Master’s practice-led research candidate at RMIT University. Her installation and process artworks explore subjective experiences of duration in 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 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
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
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, and health and engineering researchers in Australia, Sweden, and the UK to explore how creative interventions can be applied to 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 internationally funded projects enables her to push the boundaries of artistic practice.
Email me: keely.macarow@rmit.edu.au
Patrick Macasaet
Patrick is a 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, which explores and develops the potential of gaming technologies and allied immersive media for architectural design speculations, processes, representations, pedagogy, and future practice.
Email me: patrick.macasaet@rmit.edu.au
Dr Nancy Mauro-Flude
Nancy is a performance artist represented by Bett Gallery, Tasmania. Nancy lectures in critical theory and 21st-century media 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 an 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 developing 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 Arts (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 to explore human-nature relationships in 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 the Netherlands, 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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