ORCID Profile
0000-0002-6536-8442
Current Organisation
RMIT University
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Research Topics
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Top 5 Research Topics
ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)
Social Change | Sociology | Studies of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Society | Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Policy |
ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)
Expanding Knowledge through Studies of Human Society | Government and Politics not elsewhere classified | Expanding Knowledge in Language, Communication and Culture
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Publications
Reimagining co-design on Country as a relational and transformational practice
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 22-11-2022
Show and Tell: Accessing and Communicating Implicit Knowledge Through Artefacts
Publisher: Intellect
Date: 12-2007
Ba of Emptiness: A Place of Potential for Designing Social Innovation
Publisher: Project MUSE
Date: 2016
Embodying, enacting and entangling design: A phenomenological view to co-designing services
Publisher: Linkoping University Electronic Press
Date: 06-2016
DOI: 10.3384/SVID.2000-964X.13129
Abstract: What is holding back service design from making a distinct departure from a product-centred to a socio-material human-centred framework? We have a concern for co-designing that is often discussed as a generic method to develop empathetic connections and understandings of people and their contexts. In this use, mastering the craft of co-designing had inadvertently isolated the method from the practitioner, fragmenting its process as a series of static events or a tool for deployment in staged workshops. Contributing to current debates on co-designing and design anthropology, our paper seeks to re-entangle co-designing back into its lived and enacted contexts. We see co-designing as a reflexive, embodied process of discovery and actualisation, and it is an integral, on-going activity of designing services. Co-designing can catalyse a transformative process in revealing and unlocking tacit knowledge, moving people along on a journey to 'make real' what proposed services might be like in the future. Co-designing plays a critical role especially when it involves the very people who are enmeshed in the realisation of the proposed services itself. As such, our case study of a weekend Ordnance Survey Geovation c pays closer attention to how this took place and discusses the transformative process that was central to it. By taking a phenomenological perspective and building on a seminal anthropologists' work, Tim Ingold, our paper counters the limitations in service design that tends to see its process as a contained series of fixed interactions or systemized process of methods. Through Ingold, we see 'the social world as a tangle of threads or life-paths, ever ravelling here and unravelling there, within which the task for any being is to improvise a way through, and to keep on-going. Lives are bound up in the tangle.' Similarly, we view co-designing as being and becoming, that is constantly transforming and connecting multiple entanglements.
Modes of Uncertainty in HCI
Publisher: Now Publishers
Date: 2022
DOI: 10.1561/1100000085
Attuning to Ma (between-ness) in designing
Publisher: ACM
Date: 06-10-2014
A feminist server stack: co-designing feminist web servers to reimagine Internet futures
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 02-01-2022
Being awake to Ma: designing in between-ness as a way of becoming with
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 02-10-2015
Readiness for contingency: punctuation, poise, and co-design
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 02-01-2020
What community?: facilitating awareness of 'community' through playful triggers
Publisher: ACM
Date: 29-11-2010
A 'Way of Being' in Design: Zen and the Art of Being a Human-Centred Practitioner
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 05-2012
Service Design: From Insight to Implementation
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 03-04-2015
Special Issue: Embracing Plurality in Designing Social Innovation Practices
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 02-01-2019
Urban HCI: (Re)adapting the City Together
Publisher: ACM
Date: 04-06-2016
Careful attunements: the choreographing of care and affective witnessing through media practices during, and after, crisis
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 16-09-2022
DOI: 10.1177/01634437211040952
Abstract: This paper takes a design anthropology approach to understanding the learnings, challenges and opportunities Victorians adopted to choreograph practices of care in and through media practice during and after the Australian 2019–2020 bushfire crisis. In doing so, we frame our inquiry from a perspective of how in iduals and communities care through media practice. The study weaves together experiences around informal and formal crisis communication media – such as the government’s VicEmergency App, Australian and international news media and social media sharing – to map what we call the careful attunements of choreographing care.
Problematizing Replicable Design to Practice Respectful, Reciprocal, and Relational Co-designing with Indigenous People
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 02-01-2019
Beyond transmission: An analysis of communication frameworks in Australian bushfire preparedness
Publisher: Emerald
Date: 08-02-2016
DOI: 10.1108/IJDRBE-08-2013-0034
Abstract: The purpose of this paper is to introduce and critique frameworks of communication in Australian bushfire management. Achieving bushfire preparedness is a complex process that centres on meaningful communication and relationships between fire emergency agencies and the residents at risk. However, the practice of bushfire communication in Australia might better be described as bricoleur-like, applying and adapting whatever is at hand from the broader media panoply, rather than involving a more deliberative and comprehensively planned approach to preparedness. This paper builds on different frameworks of communication, beyond the traditional transmission and power models, to establish alternative ways in which communication may take place in bushfire preparedness. It is built from coupling theoretical and social science approaches to communication and through interviews and fieldwork in four states across Australia. The aggregation of these data became the basis to examine how communication was taking place among these constituents. Communication as transmission still remains dominant from the perspective where expertise is marshaled among fire agency specialists and disseminated to the public. Communication as power highlights that the persistence of the transmission process can reinforce power dynamics, diminishing empowerment, participation and capacity-building for change by the community. Recognising the importance for understanding audiences, communication as marketing pays closer attention to attitudes to influence behaviour. Finally, communication as community elaborates the conversational aspects of knowledge flow, through social networks, bringing a particular focus to bear on the greater need for community agency. The authors put forward these frameworks as ways to analyse, critique and propose different ways that communication can, and does, occur, resulting in different kinds of interaction and impact. The authors argue that an awareness of such frameworks is significant in assisting the communities and fire authorities in bushfire preparedness.
Structuring future social relations
Publisher: ACM Press
Date: 2014
Speculative Design and Heterogeneity in Indigenous Nation Building
Publisher: ACM
Date: 04-06-2016
Designers’ Agency
Publisher: Common Ground Research Networks
Date: 2007
Role of social networks in community preparedness for bushfire
Publisher: Emerald
Date: 02-09-2013
DOI: 10.1108/IJDRBE-01-2014-0010
Abstract: – This paper aims to present on-going research on the role of social networks in community preparedness for bushfire. Social networks are significant in helping communities cope in disasters. Studies of communities hit by a catastrophe such as landslides or heatwaves demonstrate that people with well-connected social networks are more likely to recover than others where their networks are obliterated or non-existent. The value of social networks is also evident in bushfire where information is passed between family, friends and neighbours. Social interactions are important in creating opportunities for residents to exchange information on shared risks and can lead them to take collective actions to address this risk. – This paper presents on-going research on social networks of residents living in fire-prone areas in Australia to investigate how knowledge related to bushfire might flow, either in preparation for, or during a hypothetical emergency. A closer examination of social relations and characteristics within networks is critical in contextualizing this knowledge flow. This understanding will contribute to collected evidence that social networks play a particularly important role in collective action in building adaptive capacity. – The types of networks studied reflects how people’s emergent roles and their inter-relatedness with one another helps to build adaptive capacity and greater awareness of the risks they face from fire. In doing so, the paper questions in idualized attributes of “leaders” that disaster literature can over-emphasize, and critiques notions “vulnerability” in a social network context. It demonstrates that social capital can be generated through emergent, contextual, processual factors. – The paper contributes critical knowledge and evidence for fire agencies to engage with community networks and support those people who are playing a vital catalytic, bridging and linking role to strengthen their potential for adaptive capacity in mitigating bushfire risk.
Why are we here? A reflexive story of decolonising
Publisher: ACM
Date: 19-08-2022
‘With great power comes great responsibility’ when we co-create futures
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 02-02-2017
Design + Ethnography + Futures
Publisher: ACM
Date: 18-04-2015
Imagining critical practises in practise based design research: What is your ‘critical’ approach?
Publisher: Design Research Society
Date: 28-06-2018
Dialogic shifts: the rhythm and sequence of artefacts in aesthetically informed interaction design practice
Publisher: ACM
Date: 22-11-2010
Designing digital and creative scaffolds to strengthen Indigenous nations: being Wiradjuri by practising sovereignty
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 02-01-2017
What research enables: Ethnography by high-school students catalyzing transformation of a post-tsunami community
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 09-2013
Experience and imagination in transdisciplinary design: The fabpod
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 04-05-2018
Kokoro of Design: Embracing Heterogeneity in Design Research
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 02-01-2017
Related Organisations
Ravensbourne College Of Design And Communication
Location: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Chelsea College Of Art And Design
Location: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Survival International
Location: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Save The Children
Location: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Related Funding Activities
Linkage Projects - Grant ID: LP140100376
Start Date: 04-2015
End Date: 06-2019
Amount: $600,000.00
Funder: Australian Research Council
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