Caroline McCaw
{{Short description|New Zealand professor in design at Otago Polytechnic}}
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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.
Academic career
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.{{Cite thesis|title=The Picnic Papers|publisher=|last=McCaw|first=Caroline|type=Master of Fine Arts thesis|date=2002|oclc=988662191|url=https://otago.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/64OTAGO_INST/qef3lj/alma99155398601891}}{{Cite journal |last=McCaw |first=Caroline |date=2002-01-01 |title=The Picnic |url=https://www.academia.edu/60840039 |journal=PDC}} 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.{{Cite thesis |title=Identifying the Value of the Local Through Site-Specific Contemporary Art Projects in New Zealand |last=McCaw |first=Caroline |type=PhD thesis |publisher=Griffith University |url=http://hdl.handle.net/10072/367514 |date=2016 |oclc=1343863193 |doi=10.25904/1912/1362|hdl=10072/367514 }} McCaw then joined the faculty of the Otago Polytechnic, rising to full professor.{{Cite web |title=Professoriate |url=https://www.op.ac.nz/research/professoriate/ |access-date=2024-05-20 |website=Otago Polytechnic |language=en}}
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".{{Cite web |title=Caro McCaw |url=https://ako.ac.nz/programmes-and-services/te-whatu-kairangi/awardee-community/2014-tertiary-teaching-excellence-awardees/caro-mccaw/ |access-date=2024-05-19 |website=ako.ac.nz |language=en-US}}{{Cite web |title=Sustained Excellence : Caroline McCaw : Principal Lecturer, Department of Communication Design, Otago Polytechnic |url=https://natlib.govt.nz/records/35229262 |access-date=2024-05-19 |website=natlib.govt.nz}} In 2016 she was awarded a Fulbright Fellowship to become a Scholar-in-Residence at SUNY Canton.{{Cite web |title=Celebrating our people - Otago Polytechnic |url=https://online.op.ac.nz/about-us/celebrating-our-people/?year=&category=significant-achievement |access-date=2024-05-19 |website=online.op.ac.nz}}{{Cite web |title=Caro McCaw – Fulbright Scholar-In-Residence |url=https://fulbright.org.nz/portfolio/caro-mccaw-fulbright-scholar-in-residence/ |access-date=2024-05-19 |website=fulbright.org.nz |language=en}}
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.{{Cite web |date=2015-02-18 |title=A Darker Eden |url=https://costumeandtextile.nz/a-darker-eden/ |access-date=2024-05-20 |website=CTANZ |language=en-NZ}}{{Cite web |title="" - Place-based fashion identity |url=https://hub.op.ac.nz/story/372 |access-date=2024-05-20 |website=hub.op.ac.nz |language=en-GB}} McCaw and Leyton also collaborated with students to produce an exhibition at Tūhura Otago Museum on WWI nurses from Otago.{{Cite web |date=2016 |title=A journey of care |url=https://online.op.ac.nz/story/379 |access-date=2024-05-20 |website=online.op.ac.nz |language=en-GB}}
Selected works
- {{Cite news |last=McCaw |first=Caroline |date=2019-07-16 |title=One-size-fits-all focus will diminish us |url=https://www.odt.co.nz/opinion/one-size-fits-all-focus-will-diminish-us |access-date=2024-05-19 |website=Otago Daily Times |language=en}}
- Malthus, Jane, McCaw, Caroline, Glen, Leyton and Barton, Margo. A Darker Eden, exhibition at Silo Park, Auckland, 13 Feb – 1 March 2015
- McCaw, C., Glen, L., Oliver, M., Wilson, J., and Scott, C. Who Cared? Otago Nurses in WWI, exhibition at Otago Museum, 26 September 2015 – 31 January 2016
- Malthus, J., McCaw C., Leyton, G., Barton M. (2015) Interplay and Inter-place: A collaborative exhibition addressing place-based identity in fashion design. International Association of Design Research Societies, Brisbane, Australia, 2 – 5 November
References
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External links
- [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3o7rNKt_hXM Caro McCaw - Tertiary Teaching Excellence Award Winner], 7 July 2014, via YouTube
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