Doctor Alison Gill
LECTURER,
Design (SoHCA)
Personal
Qualifications
- PhD University of Sydney
- BA University of Sydney
UWS Organisational Unit (School / Division)
- Design (SoHCA)
Contact
| Email: | A.Gill@uws.edu.au |
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| Extension: | 5443 |
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| Location: | BB.G.50 Penrith (Werrington South) |
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Biography
Alison Gill has an interdisciplinary design expertise with research activities across many media including visual communication design, products, film, mixed-media, clothing and fashion. She teaches in the Bachelor of Design (Visual Communication) and supervises design research degrees in the School of Communication Arts, University of Western Sydney, Australia. Alison's PhD was titled "Wearing Clothes" (University of Sydney, 2003) and explored intersections in fashion writing, critical theory and philosophies of embodiment. Alison has written about the dynamics of design, visual and fashion cultures (analysing concepts, frameworks and/or technologies) for the journals Fashion Theory, Form/Work, and the book Fashion Studies: A Reader. Her research interests in material culture, branding and consumption have been explored in two articles on athletic shoes for the anthologies Shoes: A History from Sandals to Sneakers (2006) and Design Studies: A Reader (2009).
This information has been contributed by Doctor Gill.
Publications
Chapters in Books
- Gill, A. (2009), 'Sneakers', Design Studies: A Reader, Berg 9781847882363.
- Gill, A. (2007), 'Deconstruction Fashion: The Making of Unfinished, Decomposing and Re-assembled Clothes', Fashion Theory: A Reader, Routledge .
- Gill, A. (2006), 'Limousines for the Feet; The Rhetoric of Sneakers', Shoes: A History from Sandals to Sneakers, Berg: an imprint of Oxford International Publishers Ltd 9781845204433.
Journal Articles
- Gill, A. and Lopes, A. (2012), 'Recoding abandoned products: student visual designers learn to sustain product lives and values', Art, Design & Communication in Higher Education, 21.
- Gill, A. and Lopes, A. (2012), 'Recoding abandoned products: student visual designers learn to sustain product lives and values', Art, Design & Communication in Higher Education, 21.
- Gill, A. and Lopes, A. (2012), 'Recoding abandoned products: student visual designers learn to sustain product lives and values', Art, Design & Communication in Higher Education, 21.
- Gill, A. and Lopes, A. (2012), 'Recoding abandoned products : student visual designers learn to sustain product lives and values', Art, Design and Communication in Higher Education, 21.
- Gill, A. (2012), 'Recoding abandoned products : student visual designers experiment to sustain product lives and values', Art, Design & Communication in Higher Education, 21.
- Lopes, A. and Gill, A. (2011), 'On Wearing: a Critical Framework for Valuing Design's Already Made', Design and Culture, 21.
Conference Papers
- Gill, A. (2012), 'Wearing Matters: engaging 'users' and changing relationships with clothes', Fashionably Early Forum: Designing Australian Fashion Futures, Canberra.
- Gill, A. (2012), 'Wearing Matters: engaging 'users' and changing relationships with clothes', Fashionably Early Forum: Designing Australian Fashion Futures, Canberra.
- Gill, A. (2012), 'Wearing matters : engaging 'users' and changing relationships with clothes', Fashionably Early: Designing Australian Fashion Futures, Canberra, A.C.T..
- Gill, A. and Lopes, A. (2011), 'Recoding Abandoned Products: student visual designers experiment to sustain product lives and values', Experiential Knowledge Special Interest Group of the Design Research Society, Farnham, Surrey, UK.
- Gill, A. (2006), 'Trainers: The Worlds at our feet and the multiple investments in Performance technology', Unaustralia conference, The Cultural Studies of Australasia, University of Canberra.
Supervision
Doctor Gill is available to be a principal supervisor for doctoral projects
Current Supervision
| Title: | Temporal Space; An Investigation of Sydney's Irregular Performance Spaces |
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| Title: | Envisioning Design: The Role of Visual Communications in Place-making |
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