Caroline McCaw | |
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Awards | Fulbright Scholarship , Sustained Excellence in Tertiary Teaching |
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Doctoral advisor | Pat Hoffie, Leoni Schmidt |
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Institutions | Otago Polytechnic |
Caroline McCaw is a New Zealand design academic,and is a full professor at the Otago Polytechnic,specialising in incorporating storytelling and cultural values into design communication.
McCaw completed Master of Fine Arts at Otago Polytechnic,with a thesis based around a location-specific picnic event held at four locations simultaneously and incorporating a webcast from Amsterdam. [1] [2] She also completed a PhD titled Identifying the Value of the Local Through Site-Specific Contemporary Art Projects in New Zealand at the Griffith University in Australia in 2016. Her thesis was supervised by Pat Heffie and Leoni Schmidt. [3] McCaw then joined the faculty of the Otago Polytechnic,rising to full professor. [4]
McCaw was awarded a Ako Sustained Teaching Excellence award in 2014. The citation noted that she "excels in using collaborative processes to engage learners and connect her teaching to community development and industry outcomes". [5] [6] In 2016 she was awarded a Fulbright Fellowship to become a Scholar-in-Residence at SUNY Canton. [7] [8]
In 2015,McCaw collaborated with Jane Malthus,Glen Leyton and Margo Barton to produce an exhibition of Dunedin fashion,A Darker Eden,held at Silo Park in Auckland. The display built on Dunedin's neo-Gothic reputation,had over 3000 visitors,and featured fashion by Otago Polytechnic graduates alongside established labels NOM*d,Mild Red,Tanya Carlson and Company of Strangers,and a section on iD Dunedin Fashion Week. [9] [10] McCaw and Leyton also collaborated with students to produce an exhibition at Tūhura Otago Museum on WWI nurses from Otago. [11]
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