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Was at the farm several weeks ago when I was invited to speak with Prue Bentley on ABC Victorian Statewide Drive about our research on food waste in the quick-service restaurant sector. Since I was close by I decided to pop by the ABC Ballarat studio and do the interview in person. Statewide Drive is … Read more
Saturday musings from the tent. Writing has looked rather different recently. ✍ ⛺ I’ve been working in a tent on my farm in recent weeks. The canvas doors open out towards the paddocks. Throughout the day, I watch the clouds move and the sky shift through a range of hues until it turns dark – … Read more
I’ve been working on a conference paper this week – the writing pushed me to articulate more clearly something that’s been building across my research practice. The farm is not just where I go to write, think and reset – it’s becoming a methodological setting for my work in digital design. I’m calling it Farm … Read more
ARC Linkage grant success – last week moved so quickly that some amazing things did not quite have time to land. Between Digital Design work, national media interviews for our End Food Waste project (QSR Sector Action Plan) and everything else in between, this news sat quietly in the background for a few days. I’m … Read more
Two weeks ago, I popped by the ABC Southbank studio for a national radio interview with Phil Clark for ABC Nightlife. Phil interviewed me from Sydney, I wanted to do it in the studio for better audio quality. This one is a long-form conversation, so great to be able to unpack further on the impact … Read more
Belonging doesn’t only happen in physical classrooms – it also happens in digital learning spaces. A short excerpt from my video for RMIT University’s new Graduate Certificate for Tertiary Teaching. I was invited to develop a video series – this one around inclusive learning and teaching through digital experiences. Over more than 2 years, as … Read more
Yesterday started at 5am. Up very early getting ready to front media – and not to sound like a cranky toad on breakfast radios. 🐸 This was for our End Food Waste Australia CRC Quick Service Restaurants Sector Action Plan – with research team Caroline Francis, Karli Verghese, Ruby Chan and Sam Quirk, exploring food … Read more
The Problem of Pace – full presentation at the Global Dialogue on Art and Technology forum in Beijing this week. I was invited to speak alongside China and international practitioners across a vast range of disciplines in arts and culture including immersive technologies, film and media, games, theatre and sound – unpacking how the integration … Read more
The long weekend gave me a short gap between busy university work to continue working on The Wind Writes project, which explores wind as an interaction agent within a more-than-human interaction design system. Over the past 5 days I’ve been out at the farm installing the weather station – pulling everything together and getting the … Read more
The Wind Writes. That’s the name I’ve given this project. It explores wind as an interaction agent – operating a digital interface through text – removing both human input and AI mediation from the interaction loop. An exploration of more-than-human interaction design, though I feel that term is somewhat of a misnomer, for interaction design … Read more