Dr Katja Fleischmann
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Senior Lecturer Media Design and New Media Arts, Townsville PhD (James Cook University, MFA (University of Miami), Bachelor Com Des (FH Wuerzburg) |
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027.226 |
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(07) 4781 5259 |
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(07) 4781 3169 |
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Teaching Responsibilities
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Media Design: interactive, graphic and information design
General Interest Areas
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Design pedagogy with focus on learning and teaching approaches for digital media design education
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The designer of the 21st century: design futures; design thinking for economic, public and social innovation; multi- and trans-disciplinary design processes
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Service design and the interactive user experience: interaction and information design, user-centeredness in new emerging technologies
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Community and industry partnerships: community engagement
Biography
Katja Fleischmann is an experienced academic, researcher and designer with extensive knowledge of global and national issues driving the design profession. Having worked in the US, Europe and UK as interactive media designer and design educator and now Australia, she is well placed to contribute to the discourse around global movements in the design industry.
As an academic she has had extensive experience in curriculum development, including at university level in Berlin as part of the European Bologna process, where she worked as the youngest ever appointed professor at the time. She continued this work at James Cook University where she implemented a learning and teaching approach that is centred on multidisciplinary collaboration and involves undergraduate students from various creative and other disciplines and experts from education, industry and community. Her curriculum design work, which is largely influenced by her hands-on experience in the creative industries as a designer in Berlin, London and New York, was recognized in Australia when she was winner of both James Cook University and The Australian Learning and Teaching Council (ALTC) citation awards in 2009. Katja is a member of the James Cook University Teaching and Learning Academy (JCUTLA) and has been awarded the title ‘JCU Teaching Scholar’.
Katja has already published widely in key international journals including CoDesign and Art Design and Communication in Higher Education. She won the 2010 James Cook University Research Excellence Award as The Most Promising Early Career Researcher in the Faculty of Law, Business and Creative Arts.
Katja is passionate about interactive media design, design thinking, service design, design for innovation and cross-disciplinary practice. This involves her work as researcher and educator in which she remains enthusiastic about preparing students for the requirements of the creative industry now and in the future.
What new media art means to me
“In Design the term new media was coined in the 90s and was referring to non-traditional media, such as the Internet and interactive CD-Roms. The term ‘new’ media became confusing with those media now being commonplace. If used in a design context today it usually refers to design for the Internet, DVDs, mobiles devices and other emerging media using digital tools.”