Linda Knight

Professor - Creative Practice / Education

Linda Knight specialises in critical and speculative arts and draws on 40 years of scholarship and art practice to create transdisciplinary projects concerned with social and critical futures in the urban context. Current projects explore more-than-human citizenships, urban play, and the potential of art practice to contribute to contemporary critical concerns.
Using drawing and critical stitching, Linda devised Inefficient Mapping to explore the possibilities of experimental cartographies as a reparative practice via projects that examine mainstream counter-narratives of colonial histories. Linda’s expertise is evidenced by an international profile as an award-winning, exhibiting artist and theorist, with 92 exhibitions and creative works and over 50 scholarly publications.

Linda is the Founder and Director of the RMIT Mapping Future Imaginaries research network, a global community of researchers, industry specialists, educators, and Postgraduate students working in futures-focused spaces and interested in the future possibilities of our world. Activities and outputs include the Making Connection: Mapping Creative Encounters festival, a collective exhibition and resource, and an interactive framework for fostering community connection.

Linda is a lead researcher on two ARC Discovery projects worth AU$1.4M, both of which involve tangible embodied interface design to enable play and intergenerational connection.



Linda was a co-founding member of Guerrilla Knowledge Unit, a transdisciplinary education plug-in that critically explores the conventions of Artificial Intelligence, coding, and algorithmic diversity to develop curated installations that enable young children to experiment with emergent technologies, AI, and coding.

Linda was also a co-founder of #FEAS Feminist Educators Against Sexism, an arts activist collective that uses irreverence, comedy, and arts interventions to challenge and call out sexism in academia.