Picturing the Climate Emergency

About the Author

Susanne Julia Thurow is Associate Director Research (Creative Arts) and Scientia Lecturer at UNSW Sydney’s iCinema Research Centre. Before this, she was an Australian Research Council Postdoctoral Fellow on Dennis Del Favero’s Burning Landscapes Laureate project. Working at the intersection of art, design, performance and technology, she has collaborated with partners such as Fire and Rescue NSW, Sydney Theatre Company, Opera Australia and Sydney’s Powerhouse Museum to explore how immersive visualisation and Artificial Intelligence can transform design processes and audience experience. Her first book, Performing Indigenous Identities on the Contemporary Australian Stage: Land, People, Culture (Routledge, 2020), won the Association for the Study of Australian Literature’s Alvie Egan Award in 2021. She is co-editor of Climate Disaster Preparedness: Reimagining Extreme Events through Art and Technology (Springer, 2024) and has also collaborated on the development of digital creative works, including the iFire project and its training application for emergency services.