Caroline McCaw

Caroline McCaw
AwardsFulbright Scholarship, Sustained Excellence in Tertiary Teaching
Academic background
Theses
Doctoral advisorPat Hoffie, Leoni Schmidt
Academic work
InstitutionsOtago 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.

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.[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]

Selected works

  • McCaw, Caroline (16 July 2019). "One-size-fits-all focus will diminish us". Otago Daily Times Online News. Retrieved 19 May 2024.
  • 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

  1. ^ McCaw, Caroline (2002). The Picnic Papers (Master of Fine Arts thesis). OCLC 988662191.
  2. ^ McCaw, Caroline (1 January 2002). "The Picnic". PDC.
  3. ^ McCaw, Caroline (2016). Identifying the Value of the Local Through Site-Specific Contemporary Art Projects in New Zealand (PhD thesis). Griffith University. doi:10.25904/1912/1362. hdl:10072/367514. OCLC 1343863193.
  4. ^ "Professoriate". Otago Polytechnic. Retrieved 20 May 2024.
  5. ^ "Caro McCaw". ako.ac.nz. Retrieved 19 May 2024.
  6. ^ "Sustained Excellence : Caroline McCaw : Principal Lecturer, Department of Communication Design, Otago Polytechnic". natlib.govt.nz. Retrieved 19 May 2024.
  7. ^ "Celebrating our people - Otago Polytechnic". online.op.ac.nz. Retrieved 19 May 2024.
  8. ^ "Caro McCaw – Fulbright Scholar-In-Residence". fulbright.org.nz. Retrieved 19 May 2024.
  9. ^ "A Darker Eden". CTANZ. 18 February 2015. Retrieved 20 May 2024.
  10. ^ """ - Place-based fashion identity". hub.op.ac.nz. Retrieved 20 May 2024.
  11. ^ "A journey of care". online.op.ac.nz. 2016. Retrieved 20 May 2024.