Congratulations to PhD Candidate Clare McCracken who was awarded the RMIT Prize for Research Impact — HDR (Design).

Clare McCracken’s practice-led doctoral project is based on artworks, fieldwork, and the investigation of family archives to research how mobility systems coproduce space, place and landscape across generations in Australia.

Through three carefully framed projects in different geographical milieu, she enacts a creative dialogue on the social impact of mobility through site-responsive artworks exhibited in public space.

Her research has seen her collaborate with Knox City Council and the Mission to Seafarers to create a critical discourse about the inequities and viability of current transport networks today and into the future. This has led to greater community awareness and, in the case of Knox City Council, further community consultation, the introduction of electric car infrastructure and community education programs.

RMIT Prize for Research Impact — HDR (Design)