Books

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Uncanny Landscapes

A book chapter, co-authored with Monica Monin and Andrew Burrell, on information visualisations which use material and experimental approaches to communicating data about environmental conservation and climate change.

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Create-An-Animal

A visual essay about the relationship between genetically modified creatures in Margaret Atwood's Maddaddam trilogy and the real world science they are based upon.

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Critical Documentation practices

This article presents guidelines for developing a critical documentation practice; a generative approach to documenting design research which emphasises drawing out the interplay between design practice and literature/precedents, to build a ‘credible evidence base’ for scholarly reporting. The guidelines are targeted at design researchers – particularly students and designers new to scholarship – conducting design practice as a mode of inquiry.

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Critical Journal Contextual Portfolio

A paper presented at the Research Through Design conference in Delft, The Netherlands, 19-22 March 2019. The full paper is available to download via…

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Where the book went next

Digital Culture Talk, National Library of Australia 9 December, 2014 Event blurb: How we read has been evolving since the advent of the internet and mobile devices…

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On reading with our hands

Originally published in The Book of Days: An anthology of the 2015 Sydney Writers Festival (2015), from a talk given during the festival I’m going…

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Photographs in the novel Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

In a novel that addresses the aftermath of a highly visual catastrophe, photographs communicate in ways that words alone could not.

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Disturbing the Text: Typographic devices in literary fiction

The article aims to illustrate ways authors have experimented with typographic devices to literary affect, and to encourage more experimentation with word-image interplay as a storytelling device.