Andy Polaine

Current

• Casual Lecturer at Hochschule Offenburg
• Online Lecturer, COFA Online at University of New South Wales
• Writer and Journalist (Self-employed)

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Past

• Gastprofessor Gestaltung medialer Umgebungen at Bauhaus University Weimar
• Senior Lecturer, Interactive Media at The University of New South Wales
• Head of School of Media Arts at The University of New South Wales

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Education

• University of Technology, Sydney
• University of New South Wales
• University of Westminster

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Recommended

8 people have recommended Andy

Connections

200 connections

Industry

Design

Websites

• My Website
• Omnium

Andy Polaine’s Summary

SO, WHAT DO YOU DO?
One of the problems with Linked In is that it only gives you the choice of one primary area of expertise. What do I do? Mainly interaction design, research, writing and lecturing with a smattering of service design (of which I'd like to do more).

WHAT DO I WANT TO DO?
Put together my skills boil down to anything that allows me to:

- mentor and lead a creative team (pleasantly for all involved usually)
- develop engaging interaction design and service design projects
- research and draw disparate spheres of thought together and synthesise these into compelling words
- speak easily and off-the-cuff in public about a wide range of areas
- do something useful for the planet

Andy Polaine’s Specialties:

Interactive media, emerging technologies, research, education, journalism, writing, service design

Additional Information

Andy Polaine’s Websites:

• My Website
• Omnium

Andy Polaine’s Interests:

Iyengar Yoga, blogging (of course), play, interactive media, writing, storytelling, photography, languages (German), playing music (saxophone, flute and sometimes piano).

Andy Polaine’s Groups:

BKS Iyengar Yoga Association Australia, The Omnium Creative Network, CIWI

Andy Polaine’s Honors:

2005 Conference & Travel Grant, UNSW
2004 UNSW Postgraduate Coursework Learning and Teaching Award
2004 Conference & Travel Grant, UNSW
2004 COFA Online Fellowship: Collaboration and Play in Interactive Art and Design.
2004 COFA Online Fellowship: The Language of Interactivity.
2004 UNSW Faculty Research Grant
1997 British Design and Art Direction Silver Pencil for Levi's Strauss & Co Ltd. nteractive Kiosk
1994 New Collaborations grant: Antirom. The Arts Council of Britain, UK.

Other Notable Activities
2005 Special Guest lecturer for Creative Waves: ICOGRADA & The Omnium Project.
2005 Conference referee, IE2005, UTS, Sydney.
2004 11th Australasian Interactive Media Industry Association Awards judging panel
2004 Guest Professor, Tainan National College of the Arts, Taiwan
2003 Collaboration on United People project, Fabrica, Treviso, Italy
2003 Conference referee, Create.ed Conference, RMIT, Melbourne, Australia
1999 AWARD Awards judge, Australia

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