Researcher

My Expertise

Graphic Design, Metadesign, Design in China, Transcultural Design Collaboration, Participatory Design

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Fields of Research (FoR)

Design, Design anthropology, Interaction and experience design, Design management, Design practice and methods, Screen and digital media

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Biography

I work across the domains of experimental interdisciplinary research and practice, transcultural collaboration, sound art, experimental radio, metadesign, and education change. My current research posits a speculative framework for radical inclusion and sympoietic literacy in design education and praxis through posthuman, pluriversal approaches to critical, reflexive, and collaborative engagement with diverse, hybrid, and emerging...view more

I work across the domains of experimental interdisciplinary research and practice, transcultural collaboration, sound art, experimental radio, metadesign, and education change. My current research posits a speculative framework for radical inclusion and sympoietic literacy in design education and praxis through posthuman, pluriversal approaches to critical, reflexive, and collaborative engagement with diverse, hybrid, and emerging intelligences.


My Grants

2022 McArthur, I. W., Kriss, K., Watson, K., Cumming, T. School of Art & Design Research Support Scheme 
Co-designing digital inclusion using participatory public space media with neurodiverse communities. ($9,200)

2018 McArthur, I., Australian Research Council/Discovery Early Career Researcher Award (DECRA - DE190100779). 
Co-design between China and Australia using participatory urban media ($426,935)

2017 McArthur, I., Faculty Research Grant. Mapping Chongqing’s Urban Media Ecology ($12,664)

2016 McArthur, I., UNSW China Ambassadors Program DFAT ($64,000)

2016 McArthur, I., Special Studies Program ($11,000) 

2016 Miller, B., McArthur, I., Sierra, M., Australia China Council Grant. Building, strengthening and consolidating connections: Australia-China design dialogues ($20,000)

2016 Miller, B., McArthur, I., Sierra, M., Australian Cultural Diplomacy Grant mad.lab@Beijing Design Week ($15,000)

2015 Haeusler, M., McArthur, I., Tomitsch, M., Harding, G., Thomas, L., Turnball Tillman, D., Chang, Z. Connecting City Life and Culture in China and Australia through Media Architecture ($30,000)

2014 McArthur, I., DFAT Asia Bound Mobility Program ($31,500)  

2014 Apperley, T., Attridge, J., Harley, R., Jöttkandt, S., Lowe, R., McArthur, I., McIntyre, S., Murphie, A., Zappavigna, M., UNSW Innovation Grant. Building the UNSW Community of Practice in the Digital Humanities ($25,000)

2013 McArthur, I., Tomitsch, M., Foth, M., Haeusler, M., Murphie, A., Miller, B. Halloran Trust Research Grant. Enabling audience participation through urban media as a diagnostic method in urban planning ($47,834)

2013 McArthur, I., Miller, B., Faculty Research Grant. augmented_studio: Accelerating intercultural communication and collaboration through the use of interactive media platforms to co-language shared vision ($5000)

2012 McArthur, I., PRSS Graduate Research School Funding ($3000) 

2012 McArthur, I., Faculty Support Funding BJDW ($9,000) 

2012 McArthur, I., L&T Dissemination Support Grant ($2,000) 

2011 McArthur, I., Miller, B., Goodwin, R.; DEEWR Study Overseas Short-term Mobility Program ($24,000) 

2011 McArthur, I., L&T Dissemination Support Grant ($2,000); 

2010 McArthur, I., Miller, B., Goodwin, R. Faculty Research Grant. Incubating Trust, Signalling Coherence: Evaluating Interactive Media Platform in cross-cultural contexts ($9,098)

2010 McArthur, I., Miller, B., Goodwin, R., UNSW Contestable Funding – International Projects. COFA in CHINA, A collaborative exhibition project between COFA and Donghua University (DHU), Shanghai ($18,968)

2009 McIntyre, S., Bennett, R., Watson K., McArthur, I., Larsen, S., Australian Learning and Teaching Council Competitive Grant Learning to teach online: developing high-quality video and text resources to help educators teach online ($210,000)  

2009 McArthur, I., McIntyre, S., Bennett, R., Fang Xu, Goodwin, R., Early Career Research Grant. Culturally adaptive online pedagogy: Developing and evaluating culturally appropriate online pedagogy for trans-national collaborative design education ($16,850)  

2008 McArthur, I., Field Research Grant. Data collecting to map all relevant factors influencing the development of a model that will function effectively in a CHC context as well as a Western context ($4,000) 

2007 McArthur, I., McIntyre, S., Bennett, R., Early Career Research Grant. Culture and online pedagogy: A comparative analysis of the effectiveness of different media types in cross-cultural online design education ($8,500)

2008 – 2012 Faculty Travel Grants ($7,068) 


My Qualifications

2015             PhD (Media Arts), UNSW Art and Design, UNSW Australia  
2003             Master of Design (Professional Practice), Middlesex University, United Kingdom
1997             Bachelor of Adult Education, University of Technology (UTS), Sydney, Australia 
1996             Bachelor of Teaching (Adult Education), University of Technology (UTS), Sydney, Australia

 


My Awards

2023 ADCET Award for Accessibility in Action (Diversified Project)

2022 iCinema DECRA Fellow

2022 Deans’s Award for High Impact. Diversified: Nothing about Us Without Us (UNSW Education Festival)

2021 Member of ANU Australian Centre on China in the World Sustainable Urbanisation Research Spoke

2019 Dean’s Award for Research Excellence. Early Career Research

2018 Member of CIDEA China International Design Educator Association

2015 Keynote Address Global Lighting Designers Forum, Guzhen, Guandong, China

2014 Delegate DFAT Inaugural Design Delegation to Beijing Design Week

2013 Delegate on Smart Services CRC Mission to China

2013 NIEA Adjunct – Porosity

2008 COFA Faculty Research Award 

2000 The Education Minister’s Award for Excellence in Teaching


My Research Activities

In 2015 I co-founded mad.lab, an urban research platform in the megacity of Chongqing, South West China in collaboration with Priestman Architects and Sichuan Fine Arts Institute. mad.lab develops education, research, and industry projects to incubate, develop, and present innovative site-specific, mediated, and issue-based concepts for the future of cities. Building on this, I led the experimental study ‘metaPLACE’ (2019-2022) to examine the potential contribution of participatory design in urban design and placemaking in Chongqing, one of China’s largest and fastest growing cities. metaPLACE employed participatory urban media interfaces co-designed by researchers, industry stakeholders, and local government. It demonstrates how participatory design methods can support, collect, analyse and distribute public sentiment data to assist in transforming urban environments like Chongqing by fully deploying its rich cultural and social resources through end-user participation.


My Teaching

I currently convene and teach the course DDES2141 Graphics 3: Place and Space

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