Associate Professor Linda Knight
A/Prof Early Childhood Education
Details
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College: School of Education
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Department: School of Education
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Campus: Bundoora West Australia
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linda.knight@rmit.edu.au
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ORCID: 0000-0003-4063-9071
Open to
- Masters Research or PhD student supervision
About
Associate Professor - Childhoods, Digital Media and Creative Practice
Linda Knight specialises in critical and speculative arts and draws on 40 years of scholarship and art practice to create transdisciplinary projects concerned with social and critical futures in the urban context. Current projects explore more-than-human citizenships, urban play, and the potential of art practice to contribute to contemporary critical concerns.
Using drawing and critical stitching, Linda devised Inefficient Mapping to explore the possibilities of experimental cartographies as a reparative practice via projects that examine mainstream counter-narratives of colonial histories. Linda’s expertise is evidenced through an international profile as an award-winning, exhibiting artist and theorist across 92 exhibitions and creative works and over 50 scholarly publications.
Linda is the Founder and Director of the RMIT Mapping Future Imaginaries research network, a global community of researchers, industry specialists, educators, and Postgraduate students working in futures-focused spaces and interested in the future possibilities of our world. Activities and outputs include the Making Connection: Mapping Creative Encounters festival, a collective exhibition and resource, and an interactive framework for fostering community connection.
Linda is a lead researcher on two ARC Discovery projects worth AU$1.4M, both of which involve tangible embodied interface design to enable play and intergenerational connection.
Linda was a co-founding member of Guerrilla Knowledge Unit, a transdisciplinary education plug-in that critically explores the conventions of Artificial Intelligence, coding, and algorithmic diversity to develop curated installations that enable young children to experiment with emergent technologies, AI, and coding.
Linda was also a co-founding member of #FEAS Feminist Educators Against Sexism, an arts activist collective that uses irreverence, comedy and arts interventions to challenge and call out sexism in academia.
Linda Knight specialises in critical and speculative arts and draws on 40 years of scholarship and art practice to create transdisciplinary projects concerned with social and critical futures in the urban context. Current projects explore more-than-human citizenships, urban play, and the potential of art practice to contribute to contemporary critical concerns.
Using drawing and critical stitching, Linda devised Inefficient Mapping to explore the possibilities of experimental cartographies as a reparative practice via projects that examine mainstream counter-narratives of colonial histories. Linda’s expertise is evidenced through an international profile as an award-winning, exhibiting artist and theorist across 92 exhibitions and creative works and over 50 scholarly publications.
Linda is the Founder and Director of the RMIT Mapping Future Imaginaries research network, a global community of researchers, industry specialists, educators, and Postgraduate students working in futures-focused spaces and interested in the future possibilities of our world. Activities and outputs include the Making Connection: Mapping Creative Encounters festival, a collective exhibition and resource, and an interactive framework for fostering community connection.
Linda is a lead researcher on two ARC Discovery projects worth AU$1.4M, both of which involve tangible embodied interface design to enable play and intergenerational connection.
Linda was a co-founding member of Guerrilla Knowledge Unit, a transdisciplinary education plug-in that critically explores the conventions of Artificial Intelligence, coding, and algorithmic diversity to develop curated installations that enable young children to experiment with emergent technologies, AI, and coding.
Linda was also a co-founding member of #FEAS Feminist Educators Against Sexism, an arts activist collective that uses irreverence, comedy and arts interventions to challenge and call out sexism in academia.
Media
Research fields
- 3606 Visual arts
- 390302 Early childhood education
- 460806 Human-computer interaction
UN sustainable development goals
- 13 Climate Action
- 11 Sustainable Cities and Communities
- 10 Reduced Inequalities
Academic positions
- Scholar in Residence
- Ars Electronica FutureLab Academy and QUT
- , australia
- 2018 – 2018
Non-academic positions
- Creative producer
- Ars Electronica FutureLab Academy and QUT
- Brisbane, Australia
- 2017 – 2017
- Curator
- Out of the Box Children's Festival, Queensland Performing Arts Centre and QUT
- Brisbane, Australia
- 2011 – 2018
- Vice President and Research Director
- Art Education Australia
- , Australia
- 2011 – 2014
Supervisor projects
- An Inquiry into the Play-based STEM Teaching Strategies in early childhood in Australia
- 21 Feb 2024
- Leadership, Curriculum and Quality Education in Cambodian Higher Education: A Study of Sustainable Development in a Postcolonial Nation State
- 29 Jun 2022
- Higher education and human capital in Vietnam: Modernity and Creativity
- 10 Feb 2022
- Early Childhood Educators’ Political Dialogues during the Pandemic: A Bakhtinian Dialogic Analysis in Facebook Groups
- 27 Jan 2022
- Identifying the language of rights in Early Childhood Settings
- 18 May 2021
- The Role of Play-Based Learning in Developing Leadership Behaviour Skills among Preschool Learners in Saudi Arabia
- 9 Feb 2021
- Finding an Archetypal Developmental Progression in Creative Thinking for The Classroom.
- 25 Nov 2020
- Architecturing-with All Creatures: Speculating with Children and Other Creatures for an Ethico-political Environment
- 25 Mar 2020
- Affective Dustly Becomings With Child-Earth Relations and Other Matters
- 13 Mar 2020
- An exploration of Victorian Kindergarten educators' experiences of remote teaching during COVID-19
- 13 Nov 2019
Teaching interests
Currently, I teach in the Graduate Diploma of Early Childhood program
Research interests
- Posthuman philosophies and critical theories
- Counter-mapping and experimental cartographies
- Visual Arts and Crafts
- Young urban children's experiences of the city via its interfaces
- Speculative and experimental concepts of citizenship and civics
- Reparative practice and art
- Young children's engagement with technologies
- Counter-mapping and experimental cartographies
- Visual Arts and Crafts
- Young urban children's experiences of the city via its interfaces
- Speculative and experimental concepts of citizenship and civics
- Reparative practice and art
- Young children's engagement with technologies
