Zoë Sadokierski
Zoë Sadokierski is an award-winning book designer, educator, and writer. She completed a practice-based Ph.D. on the narrative function of graphic devices (photographs, illustrations, experimental typography) in 2010 at the University of Technology Sydney, where she is now Senior Lecturer in Visual Communication. Her current research investigates narrative approaches to ecological communication: how might we communicate the moral, ethical, social and cultural dimensions of climate change and biodiversity loss, to inspire critical dialogue and substantive change? One facet of this research is Precarious Birds (precariousbirds.net), an ongoing collaboration with Timo Rissanen. Another is Conversations on the Precipice, a suite of collaborations run through the Speculative Narratives and Networks Studio (specstudio.com.au) at UTS.
Her writing appears in journals including Visual Communication, Book 2.0, Logos, and in the books Practice Based Design Research (Bloomsbury Academic, 2017), Routledge Companion to Design Research (2014) and The Language of Images (Cambridge Scholars, 2013). Zoë has been invited to speak about her practice-based research at the Sydney Writers' Festival, Parsons School of Design, The Wheeler Centre, National Library of Australia, and the Museum of Contemporary Art (Sydney). In 2015 she established Page Screen Books to distribute her artist books and editions. She is a founding member and former president of the Australian Book Designers Association. Her works on paper and artist books have been exhibited in galleries including Gagosian Gallery (LA), Brenda May Gallery (Sydney) and NG Art (Sydney), and acquired by the National Library of Australia, state libraries of Victoria and Queensland and UTS Library.
Website:
https://zoesadokierski.com/