Jul 27, 2022Community participation in sustainable transition decision-makingTransitions away from fossil fuel are, unfortunately, very rare, which means it has been difficult to find case studies of where the community has participated in sustainable transition processes. In order to draw upon the knowledge of others in determining a framework for participation in transitions (one subject of my…7 min read7 min read
Apr 6, 2022Social Design Sydney talkI was invited by Jax Wechsler to talk about my PhD at the Social Design Sydney event she runs and curates. This is the transcript and video of my talk. At the end of the post are some of the comments and questions from the people who attended. Thank you…29 min read29 min read
Mar 7, 2022The role of local knowledge in flood recovery and future mitigationI write this from a humid and damp Sydney that has been under a weather pattern called an ‘east coast low’ for the past two weeks. …5 min read5 min read
Dec 15, 2021“The making of lives that we feel are worth living”bell hooks the Black feminist scholar has died. I’ve not read her directly, only through others, but I know her work is very important and has shaped the thinking of thinkers I admire. Someone on twitter noted that she also wrote radical, environmental works. …4 min read4 min read
Dec 2, 2021Workshop overview: Future-proofing the HunterAs part of my PhD I am looking at the role for design and designers in increasing community participation in transition planning. Having just completed a series of workshops with Hunter Renewal and Hunter Jobs Alliance I thought I would reflect on the process as a way to share some…8 min read8 min read
Nov 15, 2021Community expertise: Adding contextual richness to technoscientific decisionsIn early November I was invited to share my research at the weekly project share at the DAB Faculty. I gave a brief introduction about the drivers of the research before speaking about how the workshops I’ve been helping with in the Hunter have been going. …14 min read14 min read
Oct 12, 2021Stage 1 PhD presentationA few weeks ago I passed my first stage of the PhD receiving my confirmation of candidature. The presentation was to a panel consisting of Stephen Healy and Alex Baumber who had been provided my paper in advance. …1 min read1 min read
Aug 2, 2021Diversity in citationsEDIT: I have just come across this useful tool to assess gender balance in bibliographies. It is from Jane Lawrence Sumner, Assistant Professor, Dept. of Political Science, University of Minnesota. It came to my attention via the very excellent book Pollution is Colonialism by Max Liboiron. Yesterday, having completed a…3 min read3 min read
Jul 26, 2021The embodied designer: A new draftEDITS: ADDED BELOW TO THE MODEL 27 JULY 2021 You may recall my exploration in my last post of the model for an embodied designer engaged in work with communities that are not their own. At the end of the post I suggested this model needed to be refined further…5 min read5 min read
Jul 7, 2021The embodied designer: A model for community-based transition planningOne of the aims of my PhD is to investigate roles for a designer within the process of transition planning within a community. So far, this has led me to investigate aspects of mindset and posture, particularly around the acknowledgement of positionality and sharing of power. I have come across…5 min read5 min read
