James Oliver

Dr. James Oliver

Associate Professor

Details

  • College: School of Design
  • Department: School of Design
  • Campus: City Campus Australia
  • j.oliver@rmit.edu.au

Open to

  • Masters Research or PhD student supervision

Supervisor projects

  • Neurodiversity and the Museum
  • 27 Aug 2024
  • Futurist First Peoples: Indigenous game design as socially engaged practice
  • 8 Jul 2024
  • Archaeo-Acoustics In Aboriginal Australia
  • 4 Jul 2024
  • 'Turning cartoons into opera': Adapting illustrated humour for performance
  • 26 Feb 2024
  • Embodied Yogic Wisdom: Exploring Transdisciplinary Creative Practices through Uniting Movement, Materiality and Spirituality
  • 26 Jul 2023
  • Principles for an Urban World Without Future
  • 14 Jul 2023
  • Indigenous Research Knowledge as a Pivotal Decolonial Practice Towards Reconciliation; Che Tapo ha heta retã oñondive
  • 14 Jun 2023
  • Reconciliation
  • 31 May 2023
  • Purpose Driven Transdisciplinary Design in Times of Great Turmoil
  • 8 May 2023
  • Reimagining food systems: community gardens, creative practice, traditional ecological knowledge, and sustainable biodiversity
  • 21 Apr 2023
  • Decolonising practice and positionality for publication: folklore, emigration and alienation through speculative fiction/non-fiction methodology.
  • 3 Jan 2023
  • More-than-human pluriversal storymaking as communication design praxis.
  • 2 Nov 2022
  • Form as a Cultural Identity in Indonesia Craft Context
  • 28 Sep 2022
  • Alternative perception, Broadening sensing - From Passive to Active: Opening Conversations with Wearables
  • 29 Jun 2022
  • Expanding Co-design through Cosmovision
  • 1 Apr 2021
  • Critical Ecological Representations: Object-Oriented Metaphorism as Design Practice
  • 1 Mar 2021

Research interests

Visual Arts and Crafts
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Acknowledgement of Country

RMIT University acknowledges the people of the Woi wurrung and Boon wurrung language groups of the eastern Kulin Nation on whose unceded lands we conduct the business of the University. RMIT University respectfully acknowledges their Ancestors and Elders, past and present. RMIT also acknowledges the Traditional Custodians and their Ancestors of the lands and waters across Australia where we conduct our business - Artwork 'Sentient' by Hollie Johnson, Gunaikurnai and Monero Ngarigo.