Mentoring in the design profession
Have you ever felt stuck on how to progress your career? Mentoring is a way to gain invaluable industry insight, ask questions, and develop your creative identity. Most importantly, it can build a supportive network of people all rooting for your success.
Co-Designing for a Better Design Practice
Listen to this conversation around the critical nature of co-design in the creation of better places. How does using a narrative structure help to define clear user journeys in public places and encourage transdisciplinary practices? Can it provide a catalyst for participatory programs and engender genuine diversity and inclusion?
How to design for memory-making experiences
The design of memory-making experiences is often undervalued in our everyday places and cities. But as narrative environment theorist Tricia Austin says, spaces speak and spaces narrate. So how might we apply this formula to create more memorable and meaningful places and experiences in our city?
Exploring the Heart of Australia: insights from bardi jawi country
Explore the vibrant history and enduring struggles of the Wurundjeri Woi-wurrung peoples in Melbourne. Uncover their resilience, cultural revival, and contemporary initiatives driving recognition and reconciliation in present-day society.
Unveiling the Untold Story: Resilience in MELBOURNE’S colonial era
Explore the vibrant history and enduring struggles of the Wurundjeri Woi-wurrung peoples in Melbourne. Uncover their resilience, cultural revival, and contemporary initiatives driving recognition and reconciliation in present-day society.
Understanding first nations Relationships to Country, Culture and Law
Explore the profound connections of First Nations peoples to their land, culture, and legal traditions. Through resilience and heritage, they nurture Country, reclaim culture, and navigate contemporary challenges with grace and strength.
The power of co-design: Embracing first nations culture in placemaking
Unlock the power of co-design to embrace Aboriginal cultures in placemaking. By fostering cross-cultural relationships, we pave the way for inclusive, equitable built environments that honour diverse perspectives.
Co-designing for a better design practice
Learn more about how co-design can be used in placemaking, built environment, urban design and sense of place projects in this engaging article that I wrote for FreeState about our practise as experience designers.