The Farm Lab is where my thinking about digital design, systems and regenerative futures is grounded in lived experience. I divide my time between two very different environments – the fast-paced world of digital design in the city and my 32-acres farm in regional Victoria where I care for animals and land.
The Farm Lab is where I explore the convergence and tension between the physical and the digital. Through field notes from the farm, observations of land and animal stewardship, small everyday experiments – I reflect on how these lived experiences shape my thinking about digital design, systems and regenerative futures – creating a continual dialogue that informs my work, teaching and long-term approach to design – and in life.
Back to farm sweet farm after a busy work week. It was very productive. But there’s also work waiting at the farm – never-ending list that kept piling up – everything needing maintenance, repair and tending to. I’d fallen behind, but I’m slowly starting to restore order here. Finally got to the chicken coop today … Read more
There’s a quote I like: “Man – despite his artistic pretensions, his sophistication, and his many accomplishments – owes his existence to a 6-inch layer of topsoil and the fact that it rains.” Paul Harvey said that. No matter how advanced we become, everything comes back to the land. I came back this weekend to … Read more
Yabbies – nature’s quiet critics. 🦞 Three years ago, I bought 67 tiny yabbies from a fishing tackle shop. They were destined as bait, but I added them to the small dam at my farm – an experiment of sorts to see if I could have a self-sustaining food source at the farm (they make … Read more