Davina Jackson

Davina Gainor Jackson is a Sydney based international writer and editor of books and websites promoting satellite technologies for urban development and recording pan-Pacific architectural and maritime history. She is a fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and the Royal Society of New South Wales.

Biography Jackson is from New Zealand and received her undergraduate degree in 1971 after studying political history and economics at Auckland University in 1973. In 1997 she was awarded a University of New South Wales M.Arch degree in architectural history and theory with a thesis that examined the internet-era implications for pre-internet theories about the history and future of domestic living and architecture. Jackson earned her Ph.D. by publications from the University of Kent School of Architecture in 2017.

Jackson was the editor of Architecture Australia from 1993 until 2000. From 2002–2005, Jackson chaired the Venice Architecture Biennale Task Force, In 2005 she was named an associate professor at the University of New South Wales.

Jackson is known for her work on architecture in Australia, knowledge she conveys through a series of books on architecture and through directing annual city light festivals in Sydney (Vivid Sydney/Smart Light Sydney 2009) and Singapore (iLight Marina Bay 2010, 2012). Her books on architecture have been reviewed by multiple publications.

Selected publications

Jackson, Davina. Data Cities: How Satellites are Transforming Architecture and Design. London: Lund Humphries, 2018. ISBN 978 1 84822 274 8.

Awards and honors In 2007 Jackson was named a fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. In 2016 she was named an honorary life member of the International Society for Digital Earth, and in 2018 she was named an honorary academic by Kent School of Architecture at the University of Kent.