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LISA SCHAROUN
Dr Lisa Scharoun is an associate professor of Graphic Design and the founder and director of the Cross Cultural Design Lab at the University of Canberra in Canberra, Australia. Lisa holds a Ph.D. in Visual Communications from the Queensland College of Art, Griffith University in Brisbane, Australia. She completed a Bachelor of Arts in graphic design at Florida Southern College in Lakeland, FL, USA, and subsequently worked in the advertising industry in the United States before commencing a Masters in design studies at The University of the Arts London, Central St. Martin’s College. After completing her Masters, Lisa worked in London as a graphic and interior designer. She has previously held the position of head of the graphic design discipline at Deakin University in Melbourne and senior lecturer in the visual communications department at Raffles Design Institute in Shanghai, China. Lisa’s research interests are in design thinking, global design strategy and social design. She was a top ten finalist in the 2013 Bill and Melinda Gates ‘Records for Life’ competition and was awarded a prize for the design she created to assist mothers in developing countries to remember to vaccinate their children. The Australian Paralympic committee commissioned her to create motivational posters for Australian Paralympic Athletes for the 2016, 2014 and 2012 Paralympic Games. Lisa’s digital photographic design work has won numerous international awards such as the JM Cameron Prize for Women’s Photography and the Prix de la Photographie Paris. Recent publications include the books Cross Cultural Design (Beijing Electronics Press, 2016) and America at the Mall: The Cultural Role of a Retail Utopia (McFarland, 2012).