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Caroline McCaw

Caroline.McCaw@op.ac.nz

Caro is Academic Leader for Communication and teaches across a range of courses including Interaction Design and Studio Projects. She supervises Masters and Doctoral students. She is involved in a wide range of creative, local community and regional development projects often working with collaborative student-staff teams, and local community groups, including museums. Caro was a Fulbright Scholar-in-Residence at SUNY Canton, in Upstate New York 2016-17 and is a winner of the AKO Aotearoa Sustained Excellence in Tertiary Teaching Award (2014). Caro is Co-ordinator of DESIS Otago, a member of the international DESIS Network.

Art and design disciplines are often considered primarily useful for communicating concepts and ideas through sophisticated visual means. To this mix Caro adds social engagement strategies including user-focused design methods, and participatory and digital art practices to encourage new perspectives & behaviour change. Her research outcomes are varied – from museum practices, public experience design, to community change-making projects. She regularly collaborates and is developing a community of practice at OP around ‘project-based learning with communities’. In her international practice she draws upon New Zealand as a useful place to rethink theoretical strategies that contribute to identifying a contemporary experience of the local, timely in our post-COVID situation.

Journal Issues

See a list of articles published in issues of: Scope: Contemporary Research Topics by this researcher.

McCaw, C. and Smith, V. (2021) Sounding Walks – evoking empathy through social, sound and walking practices. Performance of the Real ejournal, Vol 2 Performing Ecologies (Special Issue)

http://performancereal.org/

https://performancereal.pubpub.org/pub/p17as7tk/release/4?readingCollection=b2522cdc

Brasell-Jones, M. & McCaw, C. (2021) It takes a Village: Communicating a campus compost project as a local case study of sustainability education. Futures of Education - Learning to Become 2021: Education for Sustainable Development and Sustainable Development Goals in the Anthropocene. Presented at an online conference hosted by VIA University College, Denmark. Published in FECUN (International Journal on Futures of Education, Culture and Nature) Journal, November/December.

https://en.via.dk/research/innovation-and-entrepreneurship/futures-of-education-learning-to-become-2021

Researcher Profiles:
Megan Brasell-Jones, Caroline McCaw

MCaw, C. & Smith, V. (2021) Sounding Walks: Evoking Empathy through Social, Sound and Walking Practices. Performance of the Real Journal Volume 2 - Performing Ecologies [Special issue]. Online 19 May.

http://performancereal.org/?fbclid=IwAR0rebPH_KyfcFBpmmcDbIJGFEnU2gWpXzCdSismwJFXTSH46aP7_d9GbYI

McCaw, C. and Brassell-Jones, M. (2021) "Do Something New Zealand" Considering New Zealand's language of landscape imaging. The politics of Design: Privilege and Prejudice in Aotearoa New Zealand, Australia and South Africa. Eds Freschi, F., Venis, J. and Nazier, F. Otago Polytechnic Press.

Researcher Profiles:
Megan Brasell-Jones, Caroline McCaw

McCaw, C. and Smith, V. (2020) Sounding & Sounding Walks. 'Agents for Change: Facing the Anthropocene' exhibition, Curators Nina Czegledy and Jane Tinguely THEMUSEUM, Kitchener Ontario Canada.

McCaw, C. (2019) Project-based learning with communities: Case studies from two programmes. ITP Research Symposium, Whanaungatanga, Eastern Institute of Technology, Napier, 15-16 April.

McCaw, C. (2018) Let's do it! Learning through doing: Different approaches to learner capabilities Global Forum Entrepreneurship & Innovation, 24 May 2018.

McCaw, C., Keaney,P., & Bull, R. (2018) Let's do it! Learning through doing: Different approaches to learner capabilities. Global Forum Entrepreneurship and Innovation, Humber College, Canada, May 24.

Researcher Profiles:
Ronald Bull, Philippa Keaney, Caroline McCaw

McCaw, C. & Mahoney, K. (2017) Here I Am: A Collaborative Exhibition Between Technology And Art History Students Exploring Culture And Identity. AIGA Design Educators Converge, Long Paper Session: On Collaboration June 3. Los Angeles June 1-3 2017.

McCaw, C. & Mahoney, K. (2017) Here I am: Doing Culture together. A collaborative exhibition project that considers cultural ideas from New Zealand Cumulus Kolding 2017, Denmark, May 30 -June 2

McCaw, C. (2016) Identifying the value of the local through site-specific contemporary art projects in New Zealand. Doctoral thesis, awarded by Queensland College of Art, Griffith University, Australia.

McCaw C. (2016) Social Landscapes. Simbiosis, Hidalgo, Pachuca, Mexico, November 8 http://www.simbiosis.mx/

McCaw C. And Ortiz-Pulido R., (2016) ‘Landscapes and social exchange’ a participatory workshop socializing El Chico’s Hummingbird-Plant Mutualism, a collaborative art-science project. Simbiosis, Hidalgo, Pachuca, Mexico, November 10-11

Butler, S., Diekman, K., McCaw, C., Okano, H. and Schuelke, B. (2016) Working Together: exploring strategies and effective collaborative practices Diálogo colectivo de Nina Czegledy con Eduardo Andión, Simbiosis, Hidalgo, Pachuca, Mexico, November 8, 17:15 - 19:30 http://www.simbiosis.mx/

McCaw, C. and Henderson, L. (2015) Making a Splash: Expanding Students' Learning Experiences Through Studio Projects. Ma, Jin, Davide Fassi, and Yongqi Lou, eds, Emerging Practices: Inquiry into the Developing. Shanghai: Tongji University Press, 2015. ISBN: 978-7-5608-6031-2.

Researcher Profiles:
Lynda Henderson, Caroline McCaw

McCaw, C. (2015) Representing Landscapes: Understanding the role of art and design in mediating a culture of seeing New Zealand landscapes. Cumulus Milan 3-7 June 2015. abstract published in Cllina, Galluzzo and Meroni (eds.), 'The Virtuous Circle: cumulus conference, June 3-7 Milan', McGraw-Hill Education (Italy), p.61. ISBN 9788838674853

Barton, M., Malthus J, McCaw, C, Glen, L. (2015) A Darker Eden: Fashion from Dunedin. Silo Six, Jellicoe St, Auckland. 17 February - 1 March. Exhibition created under the auspices of the New Zealand Fashion Museum. http://www.nzfashionmuseum.org.nz/a-darker-eden/

Researcher Profiles:
Margo Barton, Leyton Glen, Martin Kean, Jane Malthus, Caroline McCaw

Malthus, J., McCaw, C., Glen, L., & Barton, M. (2015) Interplay and Inter-place: A collaborative exhibition addressing place-based identity in fashion design. Popovic, V., Blackler, A., Luh, D-B., Nimkulrat, N., Kraal, B. and Nagai, Y., eds, IASDR 2015 Interplay Proceedings. pp 1396-1414, ISBN -978-0-646-94318-3. Delivered at Interplay 2015, the International Association of Societies of Design Research 2015 Congress, 2-5 November, Brisbane, Australia.

Researcher Profiles:
Margo Barton, Leyton Glen, Jane Malthus, Caroline McCaw

McCaw, C, Oliver, M. Glen, L (2014) Restaging a garden party: sharing social histories through the design of digital and material interactive experiences NODEM Network of Design and Digital Heritage Conference, to be held in December 2014 Warsaw, Poland.Nodem.org

McCaw, C. and Henderson, L. (2014) Making a splash: developing design projects through studio experiences. Emerging Practices Conference, Tongji, Shanghai, October 13 2014

Joyce,Z., Ballard,S., McCaw,C., Smith,V., Lane, T., Clothier., I and Randerson, J. (2013) ‘ADA mesh cities: network, space and memory in the transitional city.’ Proceedings of the 19th International Symposium on Electronic Art, ISEA2013, Sydney, Edited by Kathy Cleland, Laura Fisher and Ross Harley. Published by ISEA International, the Australian Network for Art & Technology and the University of Sydney, 1-4. ISBN: 978-0-646-91313 http://hdl.handle.net/2123/9677,

McCaw, C (2012) Design and Social Histories, Heritage on Harbourside Cumulus Northern World Mandate, Aalto University, Helsinki, Finland May 22-25 2012

McCaw, C., Oliver, M., Leyton, L., Miller, M. (2011) Face To Face: Meeting Histories on the Street. IE '10 Proceedings of the 7th Australasian Conference on Interactive Entertainment, New Zealand ©2011 ISBN: 978-1-4503-0566-2, http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2078113

McCaw, C. (2011) Interaction and networking offline: social histories and connectivity across time and in urban spaces. Resilience in Urban Design conference, the 4th International Urban Design Conference Queensland, Australia. This full paper was presented in the Responsive & Inclusive Public Spaces & Built Environment theme, and published in the conference proceedings. AST Management Pty, Queensland Australia, pp 139-146 ISBN 9780-9808-147-3-6, Proceedings are available: http://urbandesignaustralia.com.au/flipbook11/index.html

McCaw, C., Oliver, M., Leyton, L., Miller, M. (2010) Face To Face: Meeting Histories on the Street. Interactive Entertainment 2010 conference, Massey University, 22-23 November 2010, Wellington. Short paper and exhibition of prototypes, paper published in proceedings. Conference endorsed by Design Research Society. http://ieconference.org/ie2010/

McCaw, C. (2008) New Zealand: a web of sites. 14th International Symposium on Electronic Art 2008 (ISEA2008 Pte Ltd). Proceedings of ISEA2008: The 14th International Symposium on Electronic Art ISBN: 978-981-08-0768-9. Conference Dates: 25 July - 3 August 2008, pp. 343-344, available http://www.isea2008singapore.org/

McCaw, C. and Gillies, R. (2008) Dunedin Does Not Exist. 14th International Symposium on Electronic Art 2008 (ISEA2008 Pte Ltd). Proceedings of ISEA2008: The 14th International Symposium on Electronic Art ISBN: 978-981-08-0768-9. Conference Dates: 25 July - 3 August 2008 pp. 340-343, available http://www.isea2008singapore.org/

McCaw, C. (2007) ADA: a web of sites. Aotearoa Digital Arts Reader, Clouds Publishing, pp14-20, by invitation.

McCaw, C. & Main, A. (2007) Animalia: Remix. The New Dowse, Hutt City, Wellington, February-March 2007.

Researcher Profiles:
Fiona Mains, Caroline McCaw

McCaw, C. (2007) Art and (Second) Life; Over the Hills and Far Away? DAC, Digital Art and Culture Conference, Perth, Australia. Proceedings of PerthDAC 2007: the 7th Digital Arts and Culture conference, edited by Hutchinson, A., Curtin University of Technology, 15th Sept 2007, ISBN 1 74067 537 1 15-18 September. pp241-254. The Fibreculture Journal issue 11 2008, ISSN 1449-1443, paper number FCJ-070, http://eleven.fibreculturejournal.org http://en.scientificcommons.org/28817206, blind peer-reviewed.

Ballard, S. & McCaw, C. (2007) Embedded Ecologies- Teaching Digital Media Theory to students of Art and Design. MEDIANZ conference, 7-10 February 2007, Victoria University, Wellington.

McCaw C., Main A. (2006) animalia: remix. Zero One San Jose,Electronic Arts festival in conjunction with ISEA 2006, San Jose California USA.

Researcher Profiles:
Fiona Mains, Caroline McCaw

Main, A., & McCaw C. (2006) Animalia. ISEA, San Jose, USA. Augmented reality artwork.

McCaw, C. (2006) Artist residency presentation. Solar Circuit Aotearoa New Zealand, Govett Brewster Gallery, New Plymouth. concluding presentations of a two week international artist residency at WITT, Western Institute of Technology, Taranaki, NZ.

McCaw, C. (2006) Second Life, art and online worlds

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