Katherine Gillieson
Bio
Katherine Gillieson is a designer, researcher and educator with over 20 years in higher education. She is active in writing and studio practice in addition to teaching, graduate supervision and administrative roles including Associate Dean of the Master of Design program at ECU from 2021-2024. She joined ECU in 2013 after many years in the UK, where she worked in the Department of Typography & Graphic Communication at the University of Reading.
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Research Interests
Katherine's work includes projects, research and writing in information design, editorial design and the theory and philosophy of design, with a focus on design and communication as empowering tools for socially engaged projects. She is interested in the language of book design and diagrammatic representation, systems theory, sustainability and accessibility in design. She is a founding member of the Occasional Press with Jon Hannan, an agile publication initiative at ECU, as well as the Stationery Project, a long-running project to recoup campus wastepaper and other materials through creative bookbinding for the benefit of the community. Recent projects include experiments in collective publication with Neal Haslem of the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology and design lead for the Community Networks Roadmap with Michael Lithgow of Athabasca University. She was a co-organizer of the first Information+ conference, workshop and exhibition with Isabel Meirelles of OCADU in 2016, an event focusing on interdisciplinary practices in information design and visualization.
