| Caroline McCaw | |
| Thesis1 Title: | The picnic papers |
| Thesis2 Title: | Identifying the Value of the Local Through Site-Specific Contemporary Art Projects in New Zealand |
| Thesis2 Url: | http://hdl.handle.net/10072/367514 |
| Thesis2 Year: | 2016 |
Caroline McCaw is a New Zealand design academic, and is a full professor at the Otago Polytechnic, specialising in incorporating storytelling and cultural values into design communication.
McCaw completed Master of Fine Arts at Otago Polytechnic, with a thesis based around a location-specific picnic event held at four locations simultaneously and incorporating a webcast from Amsterdam.[1] [2] She also completed a PhD titled Identifying the Value of the Local Through Site-Specific Contemporary Art Projects in New Zealand at the Griffith University in Australia in 2016. Her thesis was supervised by Pat Heffie and Leoni Schmidt.[3] McCaw then joined the faculty of the Otago Polytechnic, rising to full professor.[4]
McCaw was awarded a Ako Sustained Teaching Excellence award in 2014. The citation noted that she "excels in using collaborative processes to engage learners and connect her teaching to community development and industry outcomes".[5] [6] In 2016 she was awarded a Fulbright Fellowship to become a Scholar-in-Residence at SUNY Canton.[7] [8]
In 2015, McCaw collaborated with Jane Malthus, Glen Leyton and Margo Barton to produce an exhibition of Dunedin fashion, A Darker Eden, held at Silo Park in Auckland. The display built on Dunedin's neo-Gothic reputation, had over 3000 visitors, and featured fashion by Otago Polytechnic graduates alongside established labels NOM*d, Mild Red, Tanya Carlson and Company of Strangers, and a section on iD Dunedin Fashion Week.[9] [10] McCaw and Leyton also collaborated with students to produce an exhibition at Tūhura Otago Museum on WWI nurses from Otago.[11]