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Doctor of Philosophy (Queensland University of Technology), M.A. (University of East Anglia), PGCE / Diploma (Victoria University of Manchester), BA(Hons) (University of Sussex)
Research
Jane's research and practice explores game design, and the game engines and systems that underlay production, as cultural objects.
Projects
Jane was involved in the Australasian CRC for Interaction Design (ACID) Indigenous game world project Digital Songlines. She has been exploring cultural geographies of the imagination via use of high-end game engines in projects such as:
- tabernacle project
- graffiti engine - nQuumbar project (participatory design using game worlds)
In the following projects, Jane explores the autocracy of software and potential participatory options to exploit the spatial metaphors of game worlds to re-connect digital story telling to place.
Recent projects continue exploration of cultural geographies of the imagination and ontological design - the power of design to tell stories.
Projects (Chief investigator)
Additional information
With an emphasis on community growth and engagement, Jane (truna) Turner has aided the local games industry as part of IGDA since 2004 through the Game On program.
GameOn
GameOn is a series of exhibitions, events, talks and workshop opportunities that Jane worked closely with the QUT Creative Industries Precincts to establish. Jane and the GameOn programs team are also responsible for the:
- 48 hour game making challenge (10 years of game jams)
- studio-GameOn opportunity as part of the 2008 international GAME ON exhibition - commissioned by the Institute for Creative Industries and Innovation and the Faculty of Information Technology held at the State Library of Queensland.
- The annual Game On (GO423) Independent game festival.
- Curation of the Brisbane venue of Global Game Jam.
- The Entanglement of Usability and Sociability: Discord in the Time of Monsters
PhD, Principal Supervisor
Other supervisors: Associate Professor Nick Kelly - (Trans)places to Play: Mapping Jugaad Practices in the Age of Digitally Mediated Translocal Relationships
PhD, Principal Supervisor
Other supervisors: Professor Marcus Foth - Dismantling Contemporary Analogue Boardgame Systems and Their Influence on Individual Identity and Self-Worth
PhD, Principal Supervisor
Other supervisors: Dr Manuela Taboada