A/ProfJacqueline Gothe

Dr Jacqueline Gothe is a design researcher in visual communication design, information design and practices of critical visualisation. Her research approach foregrounds research through design as a knowledge creating paradigm. She has widely researched the application of communication and design principles in land management investigating transdisciplinary approaches in environmental projects. 

Jacqueline’s work as a visual communication designer and researcher in contemporary Australia acknowledges that a visual dialogue with land is a project of recognition and revisioning – the recognition of the lived experiences, culture and knowledge of generations of Aboriginal people and the revisioning of landscapes through a collective act of will. Practices of collaboration and co-creation are central to this investigation of the materialisation of transcultural and transdisciplinary knowledges to inform change in land management. For the past decade she has worked in partnership with Firesticks Alliance, an Indigenous-led network that mentors, shares and supports the revival of cultural burning practices in natural resource and fire management contexts. Her communication and information design contribution to Firesticks has been recognised by the International Institute of Information Design Awards (IIID).