Marcos Mortensen Steagall is a senior lecturer and Programme Leader of the Communication Design course from the Auckland University of Technology - AUT, based at their South Campus. He has 20 years of experience as a tertiary lecturer, having exercised different roles in the academic administration including course leader, curriculum supervisor, department director, deputy faculty director and school dean. He holds a Master (2000) and PhD (2006) in Communication and Semiotics acquired in The Pontifical Catholic University of Sao Paulo, Brazil, and a PhD in Art and Designed granted by Auckland University of Technology in 2019. His research interests are connected to visual semiotics; practice-oriented research methodologies in Art, Design and Technology; Lens-based image-making and indigenous epistemologies.