Dr Anne Galloway

Senior Lecturer, Design Research, School of Design, Victoria University of Wellington, Aotearoa-New Zealand
Principal Investigator, Design Culture Lab

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 these things.

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.

anne.galloway@vuw.ac.nz

Research

Design Culture Lab
We work with university, industry, government and public stakeholders to provide critical insights into the production and consumption of emergent 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

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 Book Reviews and 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.