Dr Anne Galloway

Deputy Head, School of Architecture + Senior Lecturer, School of Design + Principal Investigator, Design Culture Lab

Victoria University of Wellington, PO Box 600, Wellington 6140, New Zealand

anne.galloway@vuw.ac.nz

Research

My work is driven by a desire to understand how objects, images and stories shape—and are shaped by—people's personal relationships, social activities and cultural values. In practice, this means that I study what people make, say and do. Specifically, I'm fascinated by the role of new technologies in everyday life, and I try to find ways for the social sciences and design to work together to better understand material, visual and discursive culture.

Design Culture Lab
We work with university, industry, government and public stakeholders to provide critical and creative insights into the production and consumption of historical and emerging technologies.

Presentations & Publications
Keynote addresses, lectures, articles and essays published in academic journals, books, exhibition catalogues, magazines and newspapers.

A Brief History of the Future of Urban Computing and Locative Media
Doctoral dissertation for the Department of Sociology, Carleton University, 2008.

Teaching

Before moving to New Zealand from Canada in late 2009, I taught sociology and anthropology at Carleton University in Ottawa, and design and computational arts at Concordia University in Montreal.

Design courses
Design research and culture.

Sociology & anthropology courses
Social studies of science and technology and cultural studies of everyday life.

Elsewhere and Otherwise

I'm the Web Editor for Space & Culture and you can follow me on Twitter.

I love reading comics and graphic novels, I prefer my beer heavily hopped, I enjoy listening to last.fm while I write, I believe my cat Enid Coleslaw is the best cat in the world, and I think that the coolest superhero power is shape-shifting.

Looking for my purse lip square jaw blog? After almost eight years of posting here, I realised that I prefer writing and collecting different things in different places. But don't worry, the entire plsj archive is still here.