Davina Jackson (M.Arch) is a New Zealand-born, Sydney-based, author, editor and curator, and a visiting research fellow with Goldsmiths College, University of London. She writes for British and European publishers on modernist architecture and design in Oceania and on creative applications of technology in urban contexts. In recent years, she has produced books, exhibitions, articles, websites and guest essays explaining themes she has named 'smart light cities', 'viral internationalism', 'astrospatial archiecture', 'data cities', 'virtual nations' and 'rebooting Spaceship Earth'. During the transmillennial decades, she was a professor of multi-disciplinary design at the University of New South Wales, an editor of Architecture Australia and a director of companies which produced the world's first three 'smart light' festivals in Sydney and Singapore. Her latest books are SuperLux: Smart Light Art, Design and Architecture for Cities (Thames and Hudson, 2015) and Douglas Snelling: Pan-Pacific Modern Design and Architecture (Routledge, 2017). She also edited the world's first manifesto/snapshot report explaining the global Earth observations (GEO) movement, using satellite and remote sensing systems to understand our planet's complex environmental behaviours: D–City: Digital Earth, Virtual Nations, Data Cities (DCity and Group on Earth Observations, 2013, http://www.dcitynetwork.net/manifesto). Trained as a newspaper reporter in the mid 1970s, she spent the 1980s as a writer and photographic stylist on home design magazines including Belle and Vogue Living, then edited Architecture Australia 1992-2000, witnessing and influencing the Sydney Olympics property development boom. In 2005 she was promoted by New York publishers Phaidon as one of the world's top architecture commentators, listed with Zaha Hadid, Kurt Forster, Deyan Sudjic and others as selectors for 10x10_2: 10 Critics, 100 Architects (Phaidon, 2005). More information at davinajackson.com and davinajackson.com/publications Project websites include: http://www.superlux.org http://www.spaceship-earth-satellites.net http://www.douglas-snelling.com http://www.virtualanz.net http://dcitynetwork.net and http://dcitynetwork.net/manifesto
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