Critical Visualisation is a collective of practice-based design researchers with a shared interest in cultural storytelling about environmental issues, and ethical approaches to engaging with traditional and emerging technologies. We are based at the UTS School of Design.
Projects investigate diverse topics including communicating the impacts of the climate crisis and biodiversity loss, cultural and narrative approaches to wayfinding, design for Indigenous land management practices, creating oral histories of design practice, and the impact of AI on filmic identities. In addition to traditional scholarly publications, our researchers report new knowledge generated through practice-based research through exhibitions, events, visual essays and other non-traditional publications.
Critical Visualisation is aligned with the UTS Visualisation Institute and is committed to collaborative and cross disciplinary practice. Our research partners include: the Australian Museum, Chau Chak Wing Museum, Firesticks Alliance Indigenous Corporation, the City of Sydney, Think + Do Tank Foundation, National Museum Australia, Powerhouse Museum, National Library of Australia, Qtopia, Australia Council for the Arts.
group members
Zoë Sadokierski’s practice-based research investigates the evolution of books in the digital age and narrative approaches to ecological communication.
zoesadokierski.com
Monica Monin is an artist, designer and teacher. She is currently undertaking a PhD at University of New South Wales Art & Design. Her research and practice investigate the poetics and materiality of code and digital processes.
monicamonin.com
Gabriel Clark is a visual communication design practitioner and academic whose expertise is in motion design, digital photo media, comics and multiplatform storytelling.
gabrielclark.com.au
Andrew Burrell is a practice-based researcher and educator exploring virtual and digitally mediated environments as a site for the construction, experience and exploration of memory as narrative.
andrewburrell.net
Sara Oscar is a practice based researcher working with photography and the moving image. Her work pivots around the role of the image in shaping the past and how it is remembered.
saraoscar.com
Dr Jacqueline Gothe is a design researcher in visual communication design, information design and visual knowledge practices. Her research approach foregrounds research through design as a knowledge creating paradigm.
Jacqueline Gothe
Aaron Seymour is a designer and academic with a particular interest in the affective capacities of design. He has designed numerous audience experiences for museums and cultural institutions, harnessing interactive technologies to bring museological and archival collections to life.
Aaron Seymour
Dr Sarah Jane Jones's practice-based research explores wayfinding design approaches that draw together ecological, historical and cultural narratives, central to this is investigating the relationship between physical signage and digital wayfinding methods.
Sarah Jane Jones
Nicola Hardcastle is a visual communication designer and academic with a primary research focus on professional practice and industry engagement. Her current research centers on the pivotal role of mentorship in the expansive domain of design, contextualised within a global framework
Nicola Hardcastle
