Researcher

Associate Professor Katherine Moline

My Expertise

Design history and theory, Design innovation, Design research, Experimental design, Speculative Design, Critical Design, Co-design, Communication design, Transdisciplinary art and design, Collaboration.

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Fields of Research (FoR)

Design history, theory and criticism, Cultural studies, Visual communication design (incl. graphic design), Visual cultures, Design practice and methods, Design

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Biography

Katherine Moline is Associate Professor at UNSW Arts, Design and Architecture. Her research focuses on the dynamics between technological and social forces in art and design. Her analyses of experimental design are published in Undesign: Critical Practices at the Intersection of Art and Design (Routledge, 2018) and Food Democracy: Critical Lessons in Food, Communication, Design and Art (Intellect, 2017). Her innovations in research methods...view more

Katherine Moline is Associate Professor at UNSW Arts, Design and Architecture. Her research focuses on the dynamics between technological and social forces in art and design. Her analyses of experimental design are published in Undesign: Critical Practices at the Intersection of Art and Design (Routledge, 2018) and Food Democracy: Critical Lessons in Food, Communication, Design and Art (Intellect, 2017). Her innovations in research methods have been documented in Uncertainty and Possibility: New Approaches to Future Making in Design Anthropology (Bloomsbury, 2018) and The Routledge Companion to Digital Ethnography (Routledge, 2017).

Moline is also the Deputy Chair of the Australian Council of University Art & Design Schools (ACUADS), the peak body representing over thirty Australian universities in visual arts, craft and design. The Council undertakes leadership, advocacy, policy development, research and community service for the sector.

Katherine is currently leading the curatorial team for the touring exhibition The Data Imaginary: Fears and Fantasies, for Griffith University Art Museum with Angela Goddard, Amanda Hayman, Troy Casey, and Beck Davis

The Data Imaginary: Fears and Fantasies, Griffith University Art Museum, Brisbane (2021).
Funded by the Australia Council for the Arts (2020-2021).
https://www.griffith.edu.au/art-museum/whats-on/2021/data-imaginary-fears-fantasies

Climactic: Post Normal Design, Miller Gallery, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh (2016)
http://millergallery.cfa.cmu.edu/exhibitions/climacticpostnormal/

Experimental Thinking: Design Practices, Griffith University Art Museum, Brisbane (2015)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9fSXUp_c2cc

Experimental Practice: Provocations in and Out of Design, RMIT Design Hub, Melbourne (2015)
http://www.designhub.rmit.edu.au/exhibitions-programs/experimental-practice-provocations-in-and-out-of-design

Feral Experimental, University of New South Wales Galleries, Sydney (2014)
http://www.niea.unsw.edu.au/events/exhibition-feral-experimental

Her current practice-based research includes a critical review of research methodologies in art and design, a series of experimental workshops on social practices with mobile media, CCTV, robots and VR, and a number of ongoing system artworks:

Expanding Experimental Aesthetics in the Social Imaginary, Sydney (2018-2021). Funded Alastair Swayn Foundation (2020-2021)

Myths of the Near Future: Robots, University of Moratuwa, Colombo (2017)

Myths of the Near Future: CCTV, The Selfie and Social Activism, University of New South Wales Sydney (2016)

Myths of the Near Future: Mobile Media, Griffith University Art Museum (2015)
http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/futuretense/myths-of-the-near-future/6888830

Era of Surveillance: Persons of Interest, Fisher Library, University of Sydney (2015)
http://news.library.usyd.edu.au/category/exhibitions/


My Grants

2021 Faculty of Arts, Design and Architecture Research Fellow Scheme.

2020 Alastair Swayn Foundation, Strategic Grant. Collaboration with Alison Gwilt.

2020 Australia Council for the Arts, Arts Projects for Individuals and Groups. Collaboration with The Data Imaginary Curatorium; Angela Goddard, Amanda Hayman, Troy Casey and Beck Davis.

2016 Ian Potter Foundation, Conference Funding. Collaboration with Kath Albury.


My Qualifications

University of New South Wales, PhD (Art History and Theory), 2012

University of Technology, Master of Design, 1996

Parsons School of Design, Graphics Diploma, 1990

Sydney College of Arts, University of Sydney, Graduate Diploma (Visual Arts), 1988

Sydney College of Arts, University of Sydney, Bachelor of Visual Arts (Painting/Sculpture), 1986


My Research Supervision


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Currently supervising

Katherine was awarded the Dean’s Award for Outstanding Research Supervision, College of Fine Arts, UNSW in 2009. Current and recently completed students and topics supervised include:

Danielah Martinez, (PhD, practice-based, joint) How can the practice of care through critical design reveal issues of importance in design for an ageing population? (commenced supervision 2021)

Jack Grant (PhD, practice-based, joint) Design Activism: participant narratives on informal waste collection and recycling in Sydney, Australia  (commenced 2021)

Benjamin Bailey (Scientia PhD, practice-based, joint) Democratising Data: 3D Virtual Reality (VR) and the Biomedical Aesthetic (commenced 2019)

Inoka Samarasekara (PhD, practice-based, joint) Acts of Preservation and Renewal: Remaking traditional Sri Lankan jewellery impacted by colonisation and globalisation (commenced 2019)

Matt Harkness (PhD, practice-based, joint) Critical Making and DIY Practice: An Investigation of Digital Fabrication Tools and Technologies and their Use in High-Density Urban Settings (commenced 2018)

Yulia Brazauskayte (PhD, practice-based, joint) Social Robotics: Human-Robot Interaction Design (commenced 2018)

Carly Vickers (PhD, practice-based) Conducting Gesture as Visual Music: Experimental Visualisations for Audiences of Western Classical Music (commenced 2012 PT)

Recent completions

Kyo Hashimoto (MFA, practice-based, joint) Bioregional Bodies: Place-based making and experimental design practices in contemporary jewellery  (completed 2021)

Jack Grant (M.Phil, practice-based, joint) All It Takes: Countering Negative Stereotypes about Homelessness (completed 2020)

Chantelle Baistow (M.Design, practice-based) Co-design and Hyper-consumerism: Technology, Participation, and Ceramics (completed 2019)

Hannah Greethead (M.Phil, practice-based) Webcomics: Communicating Future-Oriented Design Concepts (completed 2019)

Penny Craswell (M.Design) Beyond Celebrity: Emergent Narratives in Inside and Frame Magazine (completed 2017, Deans Award for Research Excellence)

Guy Keulemans (PhD, practice-led, joint) Affect and the experimental design of domestic products (completed 2015)


My Teaching

Design Research Methods and Theory DDES4200

Design Honours Studio Research Project 1 DDES4101

Design Honours Studio Research Project 2 DDES4102

Research Foundations in Art & Design ADAD9114

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