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Associate Professor Charles Walker
Director : Interdisciplinary Unit
Charles Walker trained as an architect at Edinburgh College of Art and attained a post-professional MSc in Urban Development from the Faculty of Business at the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow. He has practised and taught architecture, design and creative technologies in the UK, Middle East and New Zealand. He has designed buildings, objects and virtual environments, curated and shown work in major public exhibitions, and published extensively in academic and professional journals. His main research interests explore the dynamic and complex relationships between artistic, technological, educational and professional ecologies of practice.
He joined AUT in 2007 to develop new approaches to trans-disciplinary education by drawing together design, computing, engineering, mathematics, philosophy, art and entrepreneurship. AUT’s new Bachelor of Creative Technologies and Master of Creative Technologies programmes reflect this cross-faculty perspective.
He is joint-Director of Co_Lab, an interdisciplinary partnership between AUT University and MIC Toi Rerehiko Media Arts Centre. Co_Lab works closely with the Interdisciplinary Unit to pro-actively engage with industry and other external stakeholders in developing innovative models for learning, research and practice across the creative arts, science and technology sectors.
Qualifications
BArch (Edinburgh College of Art)
MSc (Strathclyde)
PhD (Auckland)
Current Teaching Areas
Creative Technologies
Interdisciplinary design studio
Philosophy of Technology
Current Research Interests
Creative, interactive and collaborative educational environments
Post-disciplinarity
Post-digital ecologies
Data-cities