Dr Jonathan Duckworth is a digital designer, artist, and founding director of CiART (Creative interventions, Art and Rehabilitative Technology), School of Design at RMIT. Dr Duckworth has established a strong reputation for his interdisciplinary practice-based design research that forges synergies between media art, allied-health science, disability, and interactive digital technology. His core expertise traverses interaction design and human-computer interaction to develop applications using virtual reality, and associated media technologies applied to healthcare and community arts-based contexts.

His work has yielded significant innovations and impact within acquired brain injury rehabilitation, the arts and technology field, and been recognised for design innovation as a recipient of the Victorian Premier’s Design Award and Good Design Award in Digital Design. Duckworth has published and exhibited at numerous major national and international venues for creative work including Craft ACT, Canberra; Ars Electronica, Linz; Melbourne Festival, Sónar+D, Barcelona, and co-curator of Future U, RMIT gallery, an international art exhibition exploring what it means to be human in an age of rapid technological acceleration.