Rebecca Barnett (from Relative Creative) and I ran furniture restoration demonstrations at the Brisbane City Council’s tip shops as part of the council’s Green Events initiative. Over two Saturdays, we worked on furniture found Continue Reading →
Artisan hosted an important exhibition, The Apprenticeship, celebrating the work and stories of 13 artisans. The exhibition focused on how these craftspeople had pioneered pathways to gaining their craft skills, in essence Continue Reading →
I will be returning to Fiskars Village in August 2015 to continue my research on the relationship between craft practice and the business environment in a small regional community. This Continue Reading →
As part of my stay in Fiskars as an artist in residence I have been working on a small redirective design project Fiskars futures. I am asking anyone who either Continue Reading →
I am spending December 2014 in beautiful Fiskars, 80km west of Helsinki,as as artist in residence. My work here is part of my PhD research about the local craftspeople and Continue Reading →
I was invited as one of six international designers to explore the emerging global open source design movement in the Burst Open project and exhibition. Curated by John de Manincor and Christian Duell, this Continue Reading →
The Long Time, No See? project is an evolving public participation artwork about long term visions for community. I will be part of the panel discussion at Balance-Unbalance International Conference Continue Reading →
In my essay ‘Life in a box: packing and unpacking the future’, for Issue 3 of the online design journal Zoontechnica, I suggest the possibility of nomadic living in a post-urban future. I present a Continue Reading →
Christian Duell, manager of the Asia Pacific Design Library posted an article on Design Online about the designer’s role in faciliating change in communities – Bottom Up, Top Down. His comments are Continue Reading →
This article, below, was submitted to the State Library of Queensland, Asia Pacific Design Library’s new online initiative designonline.org.au . The intent is for the online content is to develop Continue Reading →