Anna E. Brown | |
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 Brown in 2016 | |
| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | Massey University |
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| Academic advisors | Mark Bradford, Christopher David Bennewith, Aukje Thomassen |
| Academic work | |
| Institutions | Massey University |
Anna E. Brown is a New Zealand academic,and is a full professor at Massey University,specialising in book design,and design for the public good.
Brown completed a Bachelor's degree with Honours in English and History at Victoria University of Wellington, [1] a Bachelor's in Design from the University of Canterbury and a Master's degree at Massey in 2012,with a thesis titled The endless book - exploring the online,offline. Brown ran her own design business before joining the faculty of Massey University,rising to full professor in 2022. [2] [3]
Brown is "interested in how conversations and community engagement can drive social change". [4] She founded and leads the Toi Āria:Design for Public Good research centre at Massey. [4] Researchers at Toi Āria developed the 'Comfort Board' approach to participatory design decision-making. The methodology was used in research commissioned by the Digital Council of Aotearoa,to assess how members of affected groups thought automated decision-making should be used in government processes. The research resulted in seven recommendations to government. [5] [1]
Brown is chair of Massey University Press. [4] She is a principal investigator in Te Punaha Matatini Centre of Research Excellence,and an associate investigator in QuakeCore,the New Zealand Centre for Earthquake Resilience. [6] [2]
Brown's book designs have won awards. Brown designed Extraordinary Anywhere,which won the award for the best non-illustrated book at the Publishers Association of New Zealand (PANZ) Book Design Awards in 2017. [2] Conversātiō:In the company of bees,by Anne Noble with Zara Stanhope and Anna Brown,was published in 2022 and won multiple design awards in Australia and New Zealand,including Best Book at the 2022 PANZ Book Design Awards,and Best in Class Award at the 2022 Australian Good Design Awards. [7]
Bronwyn Holloway-Smith is an artist and author from Wellington, New Zealand. She holds a PhD in Fine Arts from Massey University, and is Co-Director of Public Art Heritage Aotearoa New Zealand, a research initiative based at Massey University's Toi Rauwhārangi College of Creative Arts.
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Anne Lysbeth Noble is a New Zealand photographer and Distinguished Professor of Fine Art (Photography) at Massey University's College of Creative Arts. Her work includes series of photographs examining Antarctica, her own daughter's mouth, and our relationship with nature.
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Dorita Hannah is a New Zealand architect, independent academic, visual artist and designer. She has had an architectural practice, taught at various institutions in New Zealand and internationally, and has published articles and book chapters including Event-Space: Theatre Architecture and the Historical Avant-Garde (2018).
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