who's who in research visuAl Arts - Intellect

Kaye Shumack
University of Western Sydney
Keywords photography, visual
design, media, visual grammars,
social creativity
Elizabeth Sikiaridi
Keywords communication, global
Xenakis, music, architecture, media
art
the doctoral programme in educational research at Lancaster University
and the focus of her research is on the practitioner tutor’s experience of
practice and teaching.
› Students’ approaches to the ‘research’ component in the fashion design
project: Variation in students’ experience of the research process, Art, Design
& Communication in Higher Education, 2.3, 113-130.
› Learning development and study support – an embedded approach through
communities of practice, Art, Design & Communication in Higher
Education, 6.1, 11-26.
› Editorial for ADCHE special issue, Art, Design & Communication in Higher
Education, 6.3, 139-144.
› Editorial, Art, Design & Communication in Higher Education, 9.2, 107-110.
Associate Professor Kaye Shumack has a background in photography,
visual design and media. Her research is largely practice-led, exploring
visual grammars and forms of new media representations, and the
spaces between fiction, documentary, and the social that are being
created through 'transmedia' digital platforms. Her research includes an
interest in processes of social creativity that are part of everyday living,
and how these might be harnessed by designers for innovation and new
thinking using context mapping for social enablement. Her research
also engages with exploring visualisations of the heuristic and
pragmatic processes that occur within design decision-making. Her
Ph.D. is titled 'Design and the Conversational Self'; this work uses an
auto-ethnographic methodology to explore the dynamic shifts that
happen in design processes across the spectrum of public/private and
individual/collective.
› Learning as experience: a model for teaching the ‘reflective exegesis’ for
communication design practice, Art, Design & Communication in Higher
Education, 7.2, 59-72.
Elizabeth Sikiaridi is Founder of Hybrid Space Lab
(Amsterdam/Berlin), a r&d and design practice focusing on the hybrid
fields that are emerging through the combination and fusion of
environments, objects and services in the information/communication
age. Elizabeth is professor at the University of Duisburg-Essen,
working on the design and development of the cityscape and consultant
to the Dutch government on 'the use of space in the
information/communication age'. She studied architecture and