James Oliver

Dr. James Oliver

Associate Professor

Details

Open to

  • Masters Research or PhD student supervision

Supervisor projects

  • From YouTube to Broadway: A Filipino transmedia journey to revolutionize theatre production
  • 29 Sep 2025
  • Neurodiversity Superbloom
  • 18 Aug 2025
  • Principles for an Urban World Without Future
  • 27 Jun 2025
  • Drawing funny: a reflexive approach to performing illustrated humour
  • 13 Jun 2025
  • Albert, or the Love of AI: tales of AI, governance, institutions and design
  • 27 May 2025
  • Broadening the epistemic infrastructure of ‘development’: Reconstituting autonomous cultures of design and sense-making
  • 27 Mar 2025
  • Futurist First Peoples: Indigenous game design as socially engaged practice
  • 8 Jul 2024
  • Designing for Hope: Transdisciplinarity of multi-sensory design and co-design and its relationship to embodiment of hope
  • 3 Oct 2023
  • Indigenous Research Knowledge as a Pivotal Decolonial Practice Towards Reconciliation; Che Tapo ha heta retã oñondive
  • 14 Jun 2023
  • Reconciliation
  • 31 May 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
  • Cosmovision as a Relational Practice of Encountering and Making Worlds
  • 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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