Associate Professor Mark Roxburgh
Honorary Associate Professor
School of Humanities, Creative Ind and Social Sci
- Email:mark.roxburgh@newcastle.edu.au
- Phone:(02) 4921 5790
The future of design education
Associate Professor Mark Roxburgh’s research is shaping the future of design education in the face of increasing challenges from automation.
What is the future of design and visual communication practice in the world of artificial intelligence and automation? That is the question Associate Mark Professor Roxburgh aims to answer through his research that investigates how conventional approaches to design education need to change to meet the challenges of our increasingly artificial world.
A lecturer and researcher in visual communications and design, Roxburgh says that design work is extremely vulnerable to automation and artificial intelligence.
“Software is already available that can automate many visual communication projects, such as Wix websites and logo maker and Squarespace, and these are cutting out jobs for graduates,” he said.
“The definition of work that is vulnerable to artificial intelligence and automation is anything that is repetitive and that is done in a stable environment. Page layout for print and web design is highly repetitive and a personal computer is a stable environment, therefore those areas of expertise are very vulnerable,” he said.
“I’m interested pinpointing the threats facing the industry and what we can do educationally to negate those threats. I want to figure out how we should adapt our curriculum so our graduates won’t be replaced by machines.”
Going down the bespoke and hand crafted route is one way to beat the machines, however Associate Professor Roxburgh says another approach is to shift design practice away from being concerned with the crafting of the visual aesthetic on a digital platform towards managing the process through which design decisions are made.
“It’s taking the visual skills students have into different forms of practice where they are being used more in the process of ideation rather than crafting an outcome.”
It’s this kind of work that Roxburgh facilitates for his Honours and PhD students. Over the past few years he has facilitated groups of students on embedded placements at NIB Health Funds and Westpac, where they work in user centered design using their visual communication skills.
“I initially had 15 students working with Westpac using design research methods to improve customer experience. The topic was the future of banking and the students completed a series of design research techniques and communicated what they discovered about the topic through visual forms. They came up with a design concept they presented visually, for example ATM’s that were drones you can call on your phone and apps that aggregated your spending based on categories so if you were spending too much money on going out to bars you would have a meter that alerted you,” he said.
“That project was hugely successful and demonstrated to the bank just what can be achieved through user experience research and design.”
Roxburgh believes the term work integrated learning should be reversed.
“What my honours students are doing is learning integrated work. They are embedded in the industry for a significant amount of time, primarily engaged with the organisation and dealing with the university only one hour a week. They are value adding and managing their learning rather than coming to university,” he said.
He suggests that the conventional approach to design education is redundant and that on demand learning is the way of the future.
“We have this semester drip-feed model of education. But that is not the way of the world anymore. You can learn how to do anything via YouTube these days and I believe we need to adapt our model of design education to meet the changing needs of today’s students.”
How photographs shape our world
The capacity to design is a fundamental human trait, according to Associate Professor Roxburgh.
“We all design in small ways, from rearranging the furniture at home to designing cities; it’s a profound human activity,” Associate Professor Roxburgh said.
Consequently, design shapes the world we inhabit and Roxburgh that it should come as no surprise that the world is becoming increasingly artificial, or human made. His forthcoming book with the working title The Design Photo, discusses the manner in which the explosion of digital photographs on social media platforms are impacting our imagination and the artificial world we live in.
“The key argument of the book centres around the phrase, ‘you can’t be if it you don't see it’, as this is the premise of design,” he said. “Design is first and foremost about generating images showing us what the world can be like. The role of the image and its relationship to imagination and perception is central to how we design.”
Associate Professor Roxburgh says the dominant image of this century is the photograph and with the advent of social media the photo has become ubiquitous and largely influences how we view the world.
“My argument is philosophical and is that the images that we take and circulate on social media are not candid but are to some extent contrived. Research has been done that indicates that people curate a representation of themselves and their world through the images they put on social media. That influences how we see the world and how we imagine the world can be,” he said.
“We tend to now imagine the world in photographic terms because that is the dominant image form we see and our social reality is conditioned by this.”
Battling designer burn out
In another research project Associate Professor Roxburgh is investigating the phenomenon of designer burn out. He says that anecdotally many designers leave the field in their 40s due to boredom.
“There is a massive churn in the industry where designers hit a certain point in their career and then decide to quit,” he said. “The reality is that in commercial practice designers are working under enormous constraints and the work becomes quite repetitive so people get bored and burnt out.”
Roxburgh is leading a research project that examines how visual communication practitioners maintain their creative enthusiasm.
“I’m having conversations with senior designers that have managed to keep working in the industry into their 50s and 60s and am discovering what keeps them going is that they do side projects that are not directly related to how they earn a living. This then satisfies their desire for creativity,” he observed.
Roxburgh came across this phenomenon when he curated an exhibition in 2006 that featured 25 prominent Australian designers who chose a piece of work and shared the story of how it came into being.
“Through that process I discovered lot of them did things outside of their 9 to 5 work to keep them engaged with the creative process because they weren’t getting that deep satisfaction from their commercial work. I’m interested in what lessons we can learn about that to feed into design education and hopefully reduce the burn out rate”.
“My instinct is that unless you provide space in design education for free thinking approaches to design you will constrain people’s capacity to imagine things.”
The future of design education
Associate Professor Mark Roxburgh’s research is shaping the future of design education in the face of increasing challenges from automation.What is the future of design and visual communication practice in the world of artificial intelligence and automation? That is the…
Career Summary
Biography
Graduating with a degree in visuals art, majoring in photography because he couldn't draw for diddley squat, Mark quickly realised that the life of an exhibiting artist was one of low recognition and lower income. Pounding the pavement for 6 months, hawking his folio to all and sundry, resulted in Mark receiving his first commission for the Good Weekend magazine. From there it was a fast rise to the dizzying heights of freelance photo image making in the world of editorial publication. His client list read like a who's of who of the publishing world: Rolling Stone, HQ, Juice, Harper Collins, Time, Allen and Unwin, the list goes on.
Burnt out by the jet set lifestyle of the rich and famous after 4 years at the top, Mark sought refuge in the hallowed halls of academe where a life of the mind beckoned. Sadly he found a life of unending admin awaited, the boredom of which was relieved only by the joys of teaching and the occasional glimpse of research. Joining the illustrious Viscom program at UTS in 2000 he quickly organised a coup and installed himself as Director of Program, Viscom, in 2001. He was finally pried loose from the job in late 2005 and has become a valued member of the academic furniture since.
Eschewing all management ambition he has finally begun to realise his dream of a life of the mind. He has managed to publish a growing body of papers on design and photography, almost finished his doctorate, and rediscovered his creative joy in photography and making music. Most recently he was poached by the canny crew at the University of Newcastle, where much to his surprise he was given the gig of Associate Professor of Design - seems like his research wasn't as marginal as he thought. He quickly established the Fun Team and decked out his office like a 70s bachelor pad. Stay tuned for more thrilling installments of the Life of Mark...
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Research Expertise
I’ve been mucking around with design research methods for the best part of 20 years. Quite a bit of this has been premised on: • Exploring the idea of user experience • Aspects of what has become known as co-design • Observational techniques • Photography • Using abstraction, as an intellectual and methodological framework, set against and playing off the dominant realist paradigm of much design research. My research has led me to the conclusion that visual communication is THE meta-design discipline - not architecture as architects like to believe - as it is the common vehicle that all design disciplines work through. Consequently my recent work has explored visual communication as both a research method and a vehicle for visualising complex qualitative information - as opposed to the more common practice of visualising quantitative information – with a view to transforming that into propositions of what-might-be. Most recently I have done this in collaboration with the Customer Experience team at Westpac. I have developed the concept of the aesthetics of research. This frames research as an embodied aesthetic activity that regards reality as fundamentally malleable, rather than something to be observed and reported on. As such our research methods need to be creative acts rather than an objective devices. As a result I take out focus photos (I should have been in the 2010 Biennale not that bloke from Finland). I don’t think design solves problems. I loathe that paradigm as it is premised on the logic of progress. Design isn’t progress. Design is change. Design creates as many problems as it solves. Sometimes design improves things, sometimes not. The hardest thing to do in design is nothing. Sometimes this would be best but design is inevitable. Design is nothing special. We all design. Design is the new evolution. Therefor I’m interested in design thinking but I don’t think much of hype around the term, for all humans do it. Whether they do it well or with any sense of self-awareness or reflection is another matter entirely. I’m suspicious that business has jumped on the design thinking and innovation bandwagons. They are the new black. I like people. I like watching them and talking to them. They are curious beings. I am quite insightful into human behaviour and motivation as well as social trends. I pick up all this stuff from getting my students to research stuff I'm interested in, on the pretext they might learn something about design. I think they usually do. I always learn something about design and people in doing this. ?? I'm also a post-semiotician (not in the John Stewart sense but as in ‘just so over it’). I have coined the term post-definition to indicate that I am also over that peculiarly late 20th century pre-occupation with meaning. This is also why I am interested in developing an existential phenomenological theory of photography, the topic of my PhD thesis. I think detailed analysis as an intellectual activity has the potential to become redundant, if not impossible, because of the ever-increasing amount of data we are generating. My take on this is that if it becomes almost impossible to pull things apart into their constituent bits then we are better off looking to synthesis as the way forward. This has driven my interest in abstraction and the aesthetics of research. It is also why I am interested in generalisations and stereotypes - after all isn't that what design personas are??? I like being contrary and doing stuff that seems irrelevant. If everyone is doing something then I'm suspicious of it. I'm ambivalent about technology, though I use it. Sometimes being a Luddite for the sake of it is fun. ?? I suspect most people think my work marginal at best. That's ok by me but I think it might be better than they think.
Teaching Expertise
I don't teach anything. However I'm pretty good at helping people to work out how to learn for themselves. I guess you could say that my students have the teaching expertise because learn a lot from them. Some of the things I've learned from them in my 17 years of scholarly endeavour are: Design research Design theory Visualisation of qualitative information Aesthetics of research Photography Conversational skills Good manners How to be blunt but polite at the same time
Administrative Expertise
Yikes! Administration. I hope I never have to go there again. What I have done includes: 2001 - 05 Director of Program, Visual Communications, University of Technology Sydney 2000 - 05 Co-ordinator of Photomedia, Visual Communication, University of Technology Sydney 1993 – 99 Lecturer in Photomedia, School of Design, University of Western Sydney 1998 - 99 Offshore Course Co-ordinator, School of Design, University of Western Sydney 1994 – 96 Co-ordinator of Photomedia, School of Design, University of Western Sydney 1997 BDes(Viscom) course co-ordinator, Department of Design Studies, University of Western Sydney 1997 Acting Head, Department of Design Studies, University of Western Sydney These roles have encompassed the usual stuff like • managing the workloads of up to 10 full-time staff and more sessional staff than you can poke a stick at • overseeing degree programs with up 360 fulltime students • actually making courses better and more fun for staff and students • being responsible for a discretionary budget of about $1,000,000 per annum for an all too brief 4 year golden era • but typically listening to colleagues whine about workloads and ever diminishing resources • avoiding the pointless tsunami like wave of compliance stuff governments require of universities for the piddling funding
Collaborations
As I've been beavering away on my PhD for quite a few years now I've avoided most research collaboration like the plague. A few neat collaborations that I did allow myself to get involved in were: 2011 13 Songs for the Rodeo Grrls I sang on and produced this long playing record with a bunch of reprobates called Decline of the Reptiles. It rocks. In producing this record I explored concept mapping as a tool for creating the final sound. 2010 Light Relief (Part II) I set essay questions for some of the worlds top design and philosophical academics around the topic of my research. These essays formed the content of this book and I learnt a lot about my research topic. Some of the people I worked with on this were Professor Ranulph Glanville, Professor Craig Bremner, Professor Roslyn Diprose. 2006 Work / Play: 30 Years of Visual Communication at UTS I curated this highly successful exhibition with Dr Kate Sweetapple. We asked 30 top visual communication designers to interrogate their design process.
Qualifications
- Doctor of Philosophy, University of Canberra
- Bachelor of Arts, Sydney College of Advanced Education
- Graduate Diploma of Arts in Visual Arts, New South Wales Institute of the Arts
- Master of Arts (Communication and Cultural Studies, University of Western Sydney
Keywords
- Abstraction (visual and conceptual)
- Creativity
- Design history / theory
- Design research
- Photography
- Visual communication
- Visualisation
Fields of Research
Code | Description | Percentage |
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330316 | Visual communication design (incl. graphic design) | 20 |
330304 | Design history, theory and criticism | 40 |
330306 | Design practice and methods | 40 |
Professional Experience
UON Appointment
Title | Organisation / Department |
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Associate Professor - Design | University of Newcastle School of Creative Industries Australia |
Academic appointment
Dates | Title | Organisation / Department |
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1/8/2014 - 1/6/2015 | Conference Committee - Cumulus 2015 | Cumulus International Association of Universities and Colleges of Art, Design and Media Italy |
1/7/2005 - 1/6/2011 | Senior Lecturer - Visual Communication | University of Technology Sydney Australia |
1/1/2001 - 1/6/2005 | Director of Program - Visual Communication | University of Technology Sydney Australia |
1/1/2000 - 1/12/2000 | Lecturer - Visual Communication | University of Technology Sydney Australia |
1/1/1998 - 1/12/1999 | Offshore Course Coordinator - Visual Communication | University of Western Sydney Australia |
1/1/1997 - 1/12/1997 | Course Coordinator - Visual Communication | University of Western Sydney Australia |
1/1/1994 - 1/12/1996 | Photomedia Coordinator - Visual Communication | University of Western Sydney Australia |
1/1/1992 - 1/12/1993 | Lecturer in Photomedia - Visual Communication | University of Western Sydney Australia |
Awards
Recipient
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2015 |
Work Integrated Learning Academic Staff Member of the Year (Faculty of Science and Information Technology) The University of Newcastle, NSW |
2012 |
Work Integrated Learning University of Newcastle |
Invitations
Committee Member
Year | Title / Rationale |
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2015 |
The Virtuous Circle, Cumulus 2015, Milan Track chair of the Communication and Dissemination stream. |
Distinguished Visitor
Year | Title / Rationale |
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2013 |
Politechnico di Milano - School of Design Organisation: Politechnico di Milano Description: Invited as a Visiting Professor to one of Europe's top design schools to run a week long intensive masterclass called 'The Experience of Stereotype' with post graduate visual communication students. |
External Reviewer - Departments
Year | Title / Rationale |
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2006 |
Victorian DET Higher Education Provider Registration Assessment Panel. Organisation: Victorian DET Higher Education Provider Registration Assessment Panel. Description: Member of the Victorian DET Assessment panel for International College Of Professional Photography And Multimedia Higher Education provider registration. |
2005 |
NSW DET Higher Education Provider Assessment Panel Organisation: NSW DET Higher Education Provider Assessment Panel Description: Committee member of the NSW DET Assessment Panel for Billy Blue Higher Education provider registration process. |
2005 |
Victorian DET Higher Education Provider Registration Assessment Panel. Organisation: Victorian DET Higher Education Provider Registration Assessment Panel. Description: Member of the Victorian DET Assessment panel for International College Of Professional Photography And Multimedia Higher Education provider registration. |
External Reviewer - Programs
Year | Title / Rationale |
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2006 |
Victorian DET Higher Education Provider Course Accreditation Panel. Organisation: Victorian DET Higher Education Provider Course Accreditation Panel. Description: Member of the Victorian DET Assessment panel for International College Of Professional Photography And Multimedia Higher Education course accreditation. |
2005 |
NSW DET Higher Education Provider Accreditation Panel Organisation: NSW DET Higher Education Provider Accreditation Panel Description: Committee member of the NSW DET Assessment panel for Billy Blue Higher Education provider course accreditation B Design. |
2005 |
Victorian DET Higher Education Provider Course Accreditation Panel. Organisation: Victorian DET Higher Education Provider Course Accreditation Panel. Description: Member of the Victorian DET Assessment panel for International College Of Professional Photography And Multimedia Higher Education course accreditation. |
2003 |
Wesley Institute Design Degree Review Committee Organisation: Wesley Institute Description: Member of the Wesley Institute's Design Degree Review Committee for the B Des and B Des (Hons). |
2003 |
KVB Course Advisory Committee Organisation: KVB College Description: Memeber of the KVB Course Advisory Committee for the Cert IV and Diploma in Photography. |
2002 |
External Review Panel Cet IV & Diploma of Photography Organisation: KVB Description: Member of the external review panel of the re-accreditation of KvB's Cert IV and Diploma in Photography. |
2001 |
External Review Panel Diploma of Design and Illustration Skills Organisation: NSW TAFE Description: Member of the external review panel of the Diploma of Design and Illustration Skills. |
2001 |
Steering Committee, Graduate Diploma Applied Design Organisation: NSW TAFE Description: Member of the steering committee to develop the Graduate Diploma Applied Design. |
Participant
Year | Title / Rationale |
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2002 |
Chair TAFE Re-accreditation of Design Programs Organisation: TAFE NSW Description: Chair of TAFE NSW's External Review Panel for the re-accreditation of the Cert IV and Diploma of Graphic Design, the Advanced Diploma of Graphic Design (Print and Publication), and the Advanced Diploma of Graphic Design (Digital Design). |
Thesis Examinations
Year | Level | Discipline | Thesis |
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2016 | PHD | Other | Social Media Fiction: A Framework for Designing Micronarratives on Social Media |
2015 | Honours | Other | Trancendance |
2015 | PHD | Other | Civic Melancholy: An Investigation into the Notion of Melancholy in the Photograph, Focusing on the Urban Landscape in a Regional Australian Context |
2014 | PHD | Other | Cultures of Practice Within Design: An Exploration of the Differences and Similarities Between Photographing and Painting as Representational Practices |
2014 | Honours | Other | Terrtitorial Ephemera: The Socio-Economic Profile of the Metropolitan Graffiti Landscape |
2013 | Masters | Other | The Stylistically Adaptive Publication Design: Questions of Variation, Contradiction and Convention in Magazine Layout |
2013 | Masters | Other | Recurrent Narratives: Sublimity, Transcendence and Mourning |
2012 | Honours | Other | Design Thinking as Heterogeneous Engineering |
Publications
For publications that are currently unpublished or in-press, details are shown in italics.
Book (2 outputs)
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2021 |
Hight C, Minichiello M, The Elephant s Leg : Adventures in the Creative Industries, Common Ground Research Networks (2021)
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2010 | Roxburgh MWD, Light Relief (Part II), DAB DOCS, Sydney, Australia, 95 (2010) [A3] |
Chapter (11 outputs)
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2023 |
Bremner C, Roxburgh M, 'A PHOTOGRAPH IS STILL EVIDENCE OF NOTHING BUT ITSELF', The Routledge Companion to Design Research 256-268 (2023) [B1] In an effort to overcome the limitations of both artistic and scientific framing, design has turned to ethnography to understand the users of design and the experiences they have ... [more] In an effort to overcome the limitations of both artistic and scientific framing, design has turned to ethnography to understand the users of design and the experiences they have of the designed world. In doing so we have lost perspective of the abstract and transformative dimensions of design, as well as the abstract and transformative dimensions of experience. The project of photographing the conditions of the world-as-found produces images of the world that increasingly look the same. We present the case that if we regard photography as a way of asking questions the as-found becomes as-if. We look closely at the distorting effect the design photo has had on design research and propose abstracting the photographic image, or what we call the design photo. We demonstrate that photo-observation does not produce evidence and we illustrate the abstracted photograph as a form of question through which we re-engage in the project of what-might-become. The abstract photograph can illustrate the eternally blurred distance between the as-found (evidence) and what-might-become (imaginary). Observing abstractions of experience creates pictures of the pathways and messages that convey experiences of past design decisions. Incorporating descriptions of this can enrich relationships in the future.
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2023 |
Cloke S, Roxburgh M, Matthews B, 'Who gets to wear the black turtleneck? Questioning the profession of design thinking', Research Handbook on Design Thinking, Edward Elgar Publishing, Cheltenham, GL 46-70 (2023) [B1]
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2021 |
Roxburgh M, 'I developed an interest in photography', The Elephant's Leg: Adventures in the Creative Industries, Common Ground, Champaign, Il 256-275 (2021) [B1]
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2021 |
Roxburgh M, 'Design Does/Does Not Solve Problems', Textile Design Theory in the Making, Bloomsbury Visual Arts, New York 173-186 (2021) [B1]
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2019 | Roxburgh M, 'What Do We Care About? Why Learning About Design is Learning About Ourselves', Design School: After Boundaries and Disciplines, Vernon Press, Wilmington 59-67 (2019) [B1] | Nova | |||
2015 |
Roxburgh MWD, Bremner C, 'A Photograph is Evidence of Nothing But Itself', The Routledge Companion to Design Research, Routledge, Oxon 203-214 (2015) [B1]
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2015 |
Roxburgh MWD, 'Depiction As Theory And Writing By Practice: The Design Process Of A Written Thesis', The Routledge Companion to Design Research, Routledge, Oxon & New York 346-363 (2015) [B1]
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Journal article (26 outputs)
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2023 |
Matthews B, Shannon B, Roxburgh M, 'Destroy All Humans: The Dematerialisation of the Designer in an Age of Automation and its Impact on Graphic Design A Literature Review', International Journal of Art & Design Education, 42 367-383 (2023) [C1]
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2021 |
Noorbergen TJ, Adam M, Roxburgh M, Teubner T, 'Co-design in mHealth systems development: Insights from a systematic literature review', AIS Transactions on Human-Computer Interaction, 13 175-205 (2021) [C1]
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2021 |
Roxburgh M, Evans DJR, 'Assessing Anatomy Education: A Perspective from Design.', Anatomical sciences education, 14 277-286 (2021) [C1]
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2020 |
McBratney S, Minichiello M, Roxburgh M, ' Don t Read This on a Plane : a case study in microbudget feature filmmaking', Studies in Australasian Cinema, 14 144-159 (2020) [C1] This paper presents demonstrable insights from the creation of a microbudget feature-length narrative drama film with high production values. As a case study, I am using a feature... [more] This paper presents demonstrable insights from the creation of a microbudget feature-length narrative drama film with high production values. As a case study, I am using a feature film I have written and directed titled ¿Don't Read This on a Plane¿, which was filmed in 10 countries, produced on a budget of A$125,000 including all post-production, fees, and deliverables, and has been acquired for international distribution. I argue that by practicing pragmatism and bricolage, and by utilising a small professional crew who handle multiple roles, a microbudget filmmaker is able to transcend financial limitations. To support my argument, I detail my lived experience as a filmmaker from the project's conception in 2016 to its completion in 2020. In additional to describing my roles as the film's writer, co-financer, co-producer, director, editor, composer, and sound mixer, I also outline the involvement of key crew members. ¿Don't Read This on a Plane¿ embodies my tacit understanding of pragmatism and bricolage, and this paper shares my demonstrable approach to microbudget filmmaking.
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2019 |
Tucker H, Minichiello M, Roxburgh M, 'Media and Hybrid Media', The International Journal of New Media, Technology and the Arts, 14 11-27 (2019) [C1]
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2018 |
Roxburgh M, Caratti E, 'The Design of Stereotype and the Image', International Journal of Art and Design Education, 37 454-468 (2018) [C1]
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2018 |
Minichiello MA, Tucker H, Roxburgh M, 'The Motion Comic: Neither something nor nothing', The Journal of Communication and Media Studies, 3 13-24 (2018) [C1]
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2017 |
Roxburgh MWD, McAuley M, 'Learning theory through doing: Applying design studio methods in the construction of an academic argument', Art, Design & Communication in Higher Education, 16 171-186 (2017) [C1]
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2016 | Roxburgh MWD, Cox S, 'Visualisation and the Service Sector: Why Visual Communication Design is Central to Designing the Immaterial', Studies in Material Thinking, 15 1-19 (2016) [C1] | Nova | |||||||||
2015 |
McAuley M, Roxburgh M, 'Learning theory through collaboration, visualisation and audience presentation', Journal of Design Research, 13 345-361 (2015) [C1]
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2013 | Roxburgh MWD, 'The Images of the Artificial or Why Everything Looks the Same', The International Journal of the Image, 3 1-16 (2013) [C1] | Nova | |||||||||
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Review (2 outputs)
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2008 | Roxburgh MWD, 'Photographic Design', Design Dictionary: Perspectives on Design Terminology (2008) [D2] | ||
2001 | Roxburgh MWD, 'Research Training Response', Responses to Issues: Innovation Symposium (2001) [D2] |
Conference (15 outputs)
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2021 |
Kenke R, Trefz E, Roxburgh M, Minichiello M, 'The Art of Data Portraiture: Enabling a Public Debate on Self-surveillance', Art Machines 2: International Symposium on Machine Learning and Art 2021 Proceedings, Hong Kong (2021) [E1]
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2020 |
Matthews B, Roxburgh M, 'Will visual communication designers be replaced by machines?', Brisbane (2020)
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2018 | Roxburgh MWD, Irvin J, 'The Future of Visual Communication Design is Almost Invisible or Why Skills in Visual Aesthetics are Important to Service Design', ServDes2018 - Service Design Proof of Concept, Politecnico di Milano, Italy (2018) [E1] | |||||||
2015 | McAuley M, Roxburgh MWD, Roxburgh MWD, 'Designerly Ways of Learning Theory: Combining Creative and Scholarly Methods of Inquiry', The Virtuous Circle, Cumulus Conference, Milan 2015, Milan, Italy (2015) [E1] | Nova | ||||||
2015 | Roxburgh MWD, Cox S, 'Visual Communication Design Is The Centre Of The Artificial Universe', The Virtuous Circle, Cumulus Conference, Milan 2015, Milan, Italy (2015) [E1] | Nova | ||||||
2014 | McAuley M, Roxburgh MWD, 'Learning Theory Through Collaboration and Visualization', Ireland International Conference on Education October 2014 Proceedings, Dublin (2014) [E1] | Nova | ||||||
2014 | Roxburgh MWD, Caratti E, 'The Experience and Design of Stereotype', What's On: Cumulus Spring Conference, On-Line Proceedings, Aveiro, Portugal (2014) [E1] | Nova | ||||||
2012 | Roxburgh MWD, 'The images of the artificial or why everything looks the same', Third International Conference On The Image, Poznan, Poland (2012) [E3] | |||||||
2011 | Roxburgh MWD, 'The design process of a written thesis OR I can't write for diddly but I sure make pretty pictures', Doctoral writing in the visual and performing arts: Challenges and diversities, Sydney (2011) [E3] | |||||||
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Creative Work (10 outputs)
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2016 | Roxburgh MWD, Myers B, Service Station Flowers, Sydney (2016) | ||||
2015 | Roxburgh MWD, Myers B, Take Me Away / Down (To The Sea), Australia, Sydney, Australia (2015) [J2] | ||||
2015 |
Brooker CJ, Cross K, Minichiello M, Roxburgh M, Howells A, Atkins D, et al., Making it Known, Curve Gallery, http://www.making-it-known.com/catalogue/ (2015) [J2]
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2015 |
Brooker C, Cross K, Making It Known (2015) [J2]
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Other (1 outputs)
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2006 | Roxburgh MWD, 'Visual Growing Pains', ( pp.29-29). Sydney, Australia: News Limited (2006) [O1] |
Thesis / Dissertation (2 outputs)
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2018 |
Chand A, Habitus, Tacit Knowledge and Design Practice: The Context of the Designer as Illustrator, University of Newcastle (2018)
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2018 | McBratney SJ, McBratney S, Shoestring Theory: Pragmatism and Bricolage in Microbudget Feature Filmmaking, The University of Newcastle (2018) |
Grants and Funding
Summary
Number of grants | 8 |
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Total funding | $144,955 |
Click on a grant title below to expand the full details for that specific grant.
20191 grants / $24,000
nib Honours Scholarships$24,000
Funding body: nib Health Funds
Funding body | nib Health Funds |
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Project Team | Associate Professor Mark Roxburgh, Professor Mario Minichiello |
Scheme | nib Honours Scholarships |
Role | Investigator |
Funding Start | 2019 |
Funding Finish | 2019 |
GNo | |
Type Of Funding | External |
Category | EXTE |
UON | N |
20181 grants / $20,000
nib Honours Scholarships$20,000
Funding body: nib Health Funds
Funding body | nib Health Funds |
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Project Team | Associate Professor Mark Roxburgh, Professor Mario Minichiello |
Scheme | nib Honours Scholarships |
Role | Investigator |
Funding Start | 2018 |
Funding Finish | 2018 |
GNo | |
Type Of Funding | C3111 - Aust For profit |
Category | 3111 |
UON | N |
20172 grants / $60,455
Uncertainty, Insight and Creativity Research Project$45,455
Funding body: nib Health Funds
Funding body | nib Health Funds |
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Project Team | Professor Mario Minichiello, Associate Professor Mark Roxburgh |
Scheme | Research Grant |
Role | Investigator |
Funding Start | 2017 |
Funding Finish | 2017 |
GNo | G1701046 |
Type Of Funding | C3100 – Aust For Profit |
Category | 3100 |
UON | Y |
SMARTDESIGN Interdisciplinary Research Network$15,000
Funding body: University of Newcastle - Faculty of Education and Arts
Funding body | University of Newcastle - Faculty of Education and Arts |
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Project Team | Prof Mario Minichiello, A / Prof Mark Roxburgh, Prof Chris Levi, Prof John Attia, Dr David Cornforth, Dr Marc Adam |
Scheme | FEDUA Strategic Networks and Pilot Projects (SNaPP) |
Role | Investigator |
Funding Start | 2017 |
Funding Finish | 2017 |
GNo | |
Type Of Funding | Internal |
Category | INTE |
UON | N |
20152 grants / $22,500
nib Industry Scholarship$15,000
Funding body: nib Health Funds Limited
Funding body | nib Health Funds Limited |
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Project Team | Roxburgh, M., Thomas, G., Jones, L., Irvin, J. |
Scheme | nib Industry Scholarship |
Role | Investigator |
Funding Start | 2015 |
Funding Finish | 2015 |
GNo | |
Type Of Funding | External |
Category | EXTE |
UON | N |
nib Industry Scholarship$7,500
Funding body: nib Health Funds limited
Funding body | nib Health Funds limited |
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Project Team | Roxburgh, M., Thomas, G., Wicks, C. |
Scheme | nib Industry Scholarship |
Role | Investigator |
Funding Start | 2015 |
Funding Finish | 2016 |
GNo | |
Type Of Funding | External |
Category | EXTE |
UON | N |
19951 grants / $15,000
Computer Based Camera Tutorial Package$15,000
Funding body: Apple University Development Fund
Funding body | Apple University Development Fund |
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Project Team | Mark Roxburgh |
Scheme | Apple University Development Fund |
Role | Lead |
Funding Start | 1995 |
Funding Finish | 1995 |
GNo | |
Type Of Funding | External |
Category | EXTE |
UON | N |
19941 grants / $3,000
Computer Based Camera Tutorial Package$3,000
Funding body: Department of Education Employment Training and Youth Affairs
Funding body | Department of Education Employment Training and Youth Affairs |
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Project Team | Mark Roxburgh |
Scheme | Multi-modal Education grant |
Role | Lead |
Funding Start | 1994 |
Funding Finish | 1994 |
GNo | |
Type Of Funding | Other Public Sector - Commonwealth |
Category | 2OPC |
UON | N |
Research Supervision
Number of supervisions
Current Supervision
Commenced | Level of Study | Research Title | Program | Supervisor Type |
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2018 | PhD | The Impact of Graphic Design on Environmental Concerns: How Visual Communication Can Change Behaviours | PhD (Design), College of Human and Social Futures, The University of Newcastle | Principal Supervisor |
Past Supervision
Year | Level of Study | Research Title | Program | Supervisor Type |
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2023 | PhD | Creativity and Motivation in Visual Communication Professional Practice | PhD (Design), College of Human and Social Futures, The University of Newcastle | Principal Supervisor |
2022 | PhD | Revealing Creative Responses to Censorship during the Brazilian Dictatorship (1964-1985) | PhD (Design), College of Human and Social Futures, The University of Newcastle | Co-Supervisor |
2021 | PhD | Loves Last Token: Trace Objects | PhD (Fine Art), College of Human and Social Futures, The University of Newcastle | Principal Supervisor |
2020 | PhD | Exploring the Panel: Producing a Feature Length, Horror-Themed Motion Comic Based on a Comic and Screenplay | PhD (Design), College of Human and Social Futures, The University of Newcastle | Co-Supervisor |
2020 | PhD | A Creative Study on Data Portraits: The Visualisation Process of Self-Surveillance as an Indicator of Datafication of Social Life | PhD (Design), College of Human and Social Futures, The University of Newcastle | Principal Supervisor |
2020 | PhD | The ROVA Project | PhD (Design), College of Human and Social Futures, The University of Newcastle | Co-Supervisor |
2018 | PhD | Habitus, Tacit Knowledge and Design Practice: The Context of the Designer as Illustrator | PhD (Design), College of Human and Social Futures, The University of Newcastle | Principal Supervisor |
2018 | PhD | Shoestring Theory: Pragmatism and Bricolage in Microbudget Feature Filmmaking | PhD (Design), College of Human and Social Futures, The University of Newcastle | Co-Supervisor |
2015 | Masters | Hand Rendering in Contemporary Visual Communication | M Philosophy (Design), College of Human and Social Futures, The University of Newcastle | Co-Supervisor |
Research Projects
The Robot Ate My Homework: Automation and the future of work for design professionals 2020 -
Artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning are driving rapid advances in visual communication design practice. Our research investigates whether the design industry and design education are prepared for a seismic shift in work practices. We are seeking answers to the following questions: How well prepared is the design profession for AI and automation? What kind of design work is vulnerable to automation and machine learning? What kind of skills will designers need to work with AI and automation? What should curriculum look like to ensure graduates will not be replaced by machines?
Collaborators
Name | Organisation |
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Associate Professor Mark William Dart Roxburgh | University of Newcastle |
Doctor Barrie Shannon | University of Newcastle |
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Research Collaborations
The map is a representation of a researchers co-authorship with collaborators across the globe. The map displays the number of publications against a country, where there is at least one co-author based in that country. Data is sourced from the University of Newcastle research publication management system (NURO) and may not fully represent the authors complete body of work.
Country | Count of Publications | |
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Australia | 45 | |
United Kingdom | 2 | |
Italy | 1 | |
Nigeria | 1 |
News
News • 13 May 2016
UON PhD candidate's film to have world premiere in Hollywood
Filmmaker Stuart McBratney is studying a PhD by creative work at UON: and as part of his candidature, he’s written, directed and composed a feature film set for the silver screen in Hollywood.
Associate Professor Mark Roxburgh
Position
Honorary Associate Professor
FunTeam
School of Humanities, Creative Ind and Social Sci
College of Human and Social Futures
Contact Details
mark.roxburgh@newcastle.edu.au | |
Phone | (02) 4921 5790 |
Link | Personal webpage |
Office
Room | X-839 |
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Building | X - Nuspace |
Location | City , |