Caroline McCaw is a New Zealand design academic, and is a full professor at the

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, 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

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. She also completed a

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titled ''Identifying the Value of the Local Through Site-Specific Contemporary Art Projects in New Zealand'' at the

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in Australia in 2016. Her thesis was supervised by Pat Heffie and Leoni Schmidt. McCaw then joined the faculty of the Otago Polytechnic, rising to full professor. 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". In 2016 she was awarded a

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to become a Scholar-in-Residence at SUNY Canton. In 2015, McCaw collaborated with Jane Malthus, Glen Leyton and Margo Barton to produce an exhibition of

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fashion, ''A Darker Eden'', held at Silo Park in Auckland. The display built on Dunedin's

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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. McCaw and Leyton also collaborated with students to produce an exhibition at

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on WWI nurses from Otago.

Selected works

* * 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

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, 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

External links

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Caro McCaw - Tertiary Teaching Excellence Award Winner
', 7 July 2014, via YouTube {{DEFAULTSORT:McCaw, Caroline New Zealand academics New Zealand women academics New Zealand designers Communication design Academic staff of Otago Polytechnic Living people Year of birth missing (living people) Otago Polytechnic alumni Griffith University alumni