Papers by Jacqueline Gothe
InfoDesign - Revista Brasileira de Design da Informação, 2021
The contribution of the information designer and design researcher in an interdisciplinary team i... more The contribution of the information designer and design researcher in an interdisciplinary team is examined through the Developing a Visual Language for Farm Soil Mapping Project. The possibilities of digital information to support soil understanding on specific landholdings is at the forefront of the intention of this information design and visualisation project. This collaboration between designers and design researchers, product developers, soil scientists, agronomists and software developers provides a site of research to chart the participation of the designers and design researchers in the Soil Tech Project 2019-2021. The research through design relationally describes the initial participation by the information design team, the contribution of design and design research to the research and development team and the emergence of insights that have relevance for information design, data visualisation, software development, geography, cartography and directly for digital soil map...
Higher penalties may apply, and higher damages may be awarded, for offences and infringements inv... more Higher penalties may apply, and higher damages may be awarded, for offences and infringements involving the conversion of material into digital or electronic form. Unless otherwise indicated, the views expressed in this thesis are those of the author and do not necessarily Unless otherwise indicated, the views expressed in this thesis are those of the author and do not necessarily represent the views of the University of Wollongong. represent the views of the University of Wollongong.
Australian Geographer, 2012
Abstract Agricultural chemicals are a notoriously intractable source of environmental pollution. ... more Abstract Agricultural chemicals are a notoriously intractable source of environmental pollution. Offering enhanced agricultural productivity, they simultaneously risk degrading the ecological basis upon which agriculture depends. This paper considers chemicalisation ...
3C Media Journal of …, 2009
With the proliferation of global information and communications technologies (ICT), the concept o... more With the proliferation of global information and communications technologies (ICT), the concept of community no longer has geographical limitations. Yet, from ecological and social perspectives, connecting people and communities to their immediate environment is now ...
Architecture_MPS, 2022
Much of design teaching, learning and research in Australia is determined by Eurocentric traditio... more Much of design teaching, learning and research in Australia is determined by Eurocentric traditions and the ongoing colonial project. In this context Indigenous Peoples continue to experience erasure, silencing and appropriation of practices and knowledges. The Visual Communication Design Program, situated in the School of Design at the University of Technology Sydney (UTS), is committed to disrupting this trajectory. In this article we describe an immersive model that seeks to challenge the role of the design educator, creative practitioner and researcher on unceded Gadigal Lands in the city of Sydney, Australia. We reflect on the challenges of facilitating Visual Communication Design and Emergent Practices, for a third iteration as an online studio experience, during COVID-19 in the context of the climate crisis, bushfires and Black Lives Matter. This iteration is the result of four years of deep collaboration with local First Nation Elders, Indigenous scholars and practitioners. ...
InfoDesign, 2021
The contribution of the information designer and design researcher in an interdisciplinary team i... more The contribution of the information designer and design researcher in an interdisciplinary team is examined through the Developing a Visual Language for Farm Soil Mapping Project. The possibilities of digital information to support soil understanding on specific landholdings is at the forefront of the intention of this information design and visualisation project. This collaboration between designers and design researchers, product developers, soil scientists, agronomists and software developers provides a site of research to chart the participation of the designers and design researchers in the Soil Tech Project 2019-2021. The research through design relationally describes the initial participation by the information design team, the contribution of design and design research to the research and development team and the emergence of insights that have relevance for information design, data visualisation, software development, geography, cartography and directly for digital soil mapping.
Architecture_MPS , 2022
Much of design teaching, learning and research in Australia is determined by Eurocentric traditio... more Much of design teaching, learning and research in Australia is determined by Eurocentric traditions and the ongoing colonial project. In this context Indigenous Peoples continue to experience erasure, silencing and appropriation of practices and knowledges. The Visual Communication Design Program, situated in the School of Design at the University of Technology Sydney (UTS), is committed to disrupting this trajectory. In this article we describe an immersive model that seeks to challenge the role of the design educator, creative practitioner and researcher on unceded Gadigal Lands in the city of Sydney, Australia. We reflect on the challenges of facilitating Visual Communication Design and Emergent Practices, for a third iteration as an online studio experience, during COVID-19 in the context of the climate crisis, bushfires and Black Lives Matter. This iteration is the result of four years of deep collaboration with local First Nation Elders, Indigenous scholars and practitioners. The research-focused studio for 180 final-year visual communication design students is led by Local Elders, cultural and research advisers with the support of studio leaders. The consideration of design-led research methods through a process that infuses Indigenous research principles builds on the longitudinal research into the role of the emplaced designer in Indigenous-led projects on Country. Our studio, titled ‘In Our Own Backyard’, provides students with strength-based design capabilities and understandings of the principles of the United Nations Declaration of Indigenous Peoples Rights (UNDRIP), Indigenous Cultural and Intellectual Property Rights (ICIP) and the Australian Indigenous Design Charter. As a studio experience, the aim is to create conditions which spark possibilities for re-orientation towards relational and respectful negotiation of difference, and the capacity to action Indigenous self-determination in complex practitioner scenarios.
3C Media Journal of …, 2009
With the proliferation of global information and communications technologies (ICT), the concept o... more With the proliferation of global information and communications technologies (ICT), the concept of community no longer has geographical limitations. Yet, from ecological and social perspectives, connecting people and communities to their immediate environment is now more urgent than ever. In this paper we show how an Indigenous led initiative reaches across geographical and cultural gulfs by using digital media in ways that are profoundly embedded in the values associated with specific places. We refer to a grass-roots Indigenous created and led organization that with support from numerous partnerships across Australia has for many years used media to convey cultural and environmental values. The methodology of Traditional Knowledge Revival Pathways (TRKP), co-created according to the ancient knowledge system of the Kuku Thaypan Traditional Owner Elders in Cape York Peninsula, illustrates the way media can be used to traverse disciplinary boundaries and connect both Indigenous and non-Indigenous people to places. We start by describing how the simple act of picking up a camera to film this ancient knowledge system led to the creation of Traditional Knowledge Revival Pathways (TKRP). Then, we explain how the methods of using various media are anchored in the Indigenous sense of country and interconnectedness, embedded in the spiritual, philosophical and ideological perspectives of Traditional Knowledge. We outline processes that scaffold these methods, such as the way media is controlled by participating Indigenous communities and incorporated into practice and research in environmental management. This leads us to discussing some of the roles of different media in reflecting on practices, within and between communities, and translating and communicating across worldviews. We conclude by indicating how using media can connect people to place and inspire their reflection upon the mediation by media in these connections. We propose this provides new insights for improving media tools, training methods and approaches to solution making to issues of environmental, social and economic concern.
The recognition that natural resources and their processes support human society underpins the no... more The recognition that natural resources and their processes support human society underpins the notion of sustainability. Key players that are engaged with balancing natural resource protection and use include: Catchment Management Authorities (CMAs); local, state and federal regulators; resource managers and policy-makers; and industrial, agricultural and domestic resource-users. Discipline specialists are often consulted, and research results may be used, in the development and implementation of resource management plans. In Australia and globally, meaningful, effective communication between discipline specialists, resource-users, communities, and resource managers is not the norm. In this study, a team of discipline-specialist researchers used the Upper Nepean sub-catchment as a case-study; addressed a key question raised by the local CMA; and worked together to develop a transdisciplinary (TD) approach that would enhance the decision-making capacity of the CMA. The TD approach ad...
M/C Journal
IntroductionThis essay considers three design projects as microprotests. Reflecting on the ways d... more IntroductionThis essay considers three design projects as microprotests. Reflecting on the ways design practice can generate spaces, sites and methods of protest, we use the concept of microprotest to consider how we, as designers ourselves, can protest by scaling down, focussing, slowing down and paying attention to the edges of our practice. Design microprotest is a form of design activism that is always collaborative, takes place within a community, and involves careful translation of a political conversation. While microprotest can manifest in any design discipline, in this essay we focus on visual communication design. In particular we consider the deep, reflexive practice of listening as the foundation of microprotests in visual communication design.While small in scale and fleeting in duration, these projects express rich and deep political engagements through conversations that create and maintain safe spaces. While many design theorists (Julier; Fuad-Luke; Clarke; Irwin et ...
April 2016. I pay my respect to their Elders both past and present and to all Elders past and pre... more April 2016. I pay my respect to their Elders both past and present and to all Elders past and present that I have worked with since 1995. I express my gratitude for the experiences I have had during my participation in Indigenous led projects in Cobar, Cape York, Fregon in South Australia and Northern NSW as a participant designer and design researcher. In particular I acknowledge Dr Tommy George
The recognition that natural resources and their processes support human society underpins the no... more The recognition that natural resources and their processes support human society underpins the notion of sustainability. Key players that are engaged with balancing natural resource protection and use include: Catchment Management Authorities (CMAs); local, state and federal regulators; resource managers and policy-makers; and industrial, agricultural and domestic resource-users. Discipline specialists are often consulted, and research results may be used, in the development and implementation of resource management plans. In Australia and globally, meaningful, effective communication between discipline specialists, resource-users, communities, and resource managers is not the norm. In this study, a team of discipline-specialist researchers used the Upper Nepean sub-catchment as a case-study; addressed a key question raised by the local CMA; and worked together to develop a transdisciplinary (TD) approach that would enhance the decision-making capacity of the CMA. The TD approach addressed information pertaining to the question: What are the risks to maximising the environmental benefits expected from environmental flows? By analysing information and knowledge for both content and context (the factors influencing the CMA), after a one-year initial phase, we present results that suggest the TD approach is a transformative mechanism for contributing to natural resource sustainability.
With the proliferation of global information and communications technologies (ICT), the concept o... more With the proliferation of global information and communications technologies (ICT), the concept of community no longer has geographical limitations. Yet, from ecological and social perspectives, connecting people and communities to their immediate environment is now more urgent than ever. In this paper we show how an Indigenous led initiative reaches across geographical and cultural gulfs by using digital media in
With the proliferation of global information and communications technologies (ICT), the concept o... more With the proliferation of global information and communications technologies (ICT), the concept of community no longer has geographical limitations. Yet, from ecological and social perspectives, connecting people and communities to their immediate environment is now more urgent than ever. In this paper we show how an Indigenous led initiative reaches across geographical and cultural gulfs by using digital media in ways that are profoundly embedded in the values associated with specific places. We refer to a grass-roots Indigenous created and led organization that with support from numerous partnerships across Australia has for many years used media to convey cultural and environmental values. The methodology of Traditional Knowledge Revival Pathways (TRKP), co-created according to the ancient knowledge system of the Kuku Thaypan Traditional Owner Elders in Cape York Peninsula, illustrates the way media can be used to traverse disciplinary boundaries and connect both Indigenous and non-Indigenous people to places.
Australian Geographer, 2012
Working Papers in Art and Design, Jan 1, 2002
ABSTRACT his paper is designed as a speculation on 'new knowledge', the notionof ... more ABSTRACT his paper is designed as a speculation on 'new knowledge', the notionof the 'independent thinker' and 'creativity'. It is concerned with the production of 'new knowledge' in the context of practice based research, in the area of visual communication within the university. It acknowledges the supervisor/s-student/s relation as central to the design and production of optimum sites of creativity in higher education institutions. It also recognises the objectives of the university, as evidenced in the higher education policy and guideline documents, to produce independent thinkers who could be understood as the embodiment of new knowledge through the process of 'research training'. This connection between 'new knowledge' and the 'independent thinker' is pivotal to this speculation.With an absence of critical engagement, institutionalised research practices are often fraught with the inherent limitations of reproduction and repression. The institutional setting can disallow, or at the very least, tend to inhibit the rampant chaotic process of the articulation of the internal world - the site of intuition and creation of new knowledge. An examination of psychoanalytic methodologies may offer some insights into the relations that are established in and around the supervision during the formation of new knowledge within an institutional framework..Supervision in research training has been the focus of much research. Many studies have been carried out in the area of graduate student experience. There has been a focus on quality development, client satisfaction, maximisation of efficiency and completion rates. These approaches can offer rich sources of information in terms of describing student and supervisors experiences. Studies that demonstrate the trauma and emotional anxiety at the PHD level, have given educators and educationalists much reason to reflect and reconsider pedagogical approaches at every level of higher education. Issues of power, gender, class, race and difference have been mobilised to encourage a more diverse, learner centred approach and participatory engagement within the pedagogical strategies of the institution. These studies offer relevant insights but do not directly address the major question of this paper concerning the optimisation of the production of creativity and new knowledge in a context of ethical, intellectual and professional development within the institutionalised supervisory relationship, for practice based research in design - specifically visual communication.By initiating a re-reading of Freud's essay in Part II The Practical Task 'The Technique of Psycho-Analysis' from An Outline Of Psychoanalysis published in 1940 in which Freud describes the analytic process and exchange; Winnicott's writing on play and linking this with the scheme that Perry developed in his book 'Forms of Ethical and Intellectual Development in the College Years' some fruitful insights emerge. In Perry's scheme he maps out a process in which the idea of the independent thinker is a consequence of a move from 'embeddedness' to 'actualisation'. Through an examination of this continuum in the context of the process of creativity this paper aims to bring to visibility aspects of the psychoanalytic dimension of the interaction between the supervisor and the student in a research context. These connections are intended as a strategy to shift the discussion of the supervisory relation from the phenomenographic interests of educational research to a focussed speculation that acknowledges the context of the creation of an independent thinker and the production of new knowledge and creativity in practice based research where the core activity is the production of an experience, artifact, image or text as a creative expression, mediation, argument or interpretation, in response to an articulated context of research and production.
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