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
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
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
What if wind could operate a digital interface? I was having my usual morning coffee at the farm yesterday, looking out at the wind turbines in the distance as their blades slowly turned in tandem with the wind. It got me thinking about the qualities of wind. It’s invisible, yet it has an omnipresence – … Read more
A story where my design took off, traveled the world – and never wrote home. On a very late night 18 years ago, I was feeling bored at my apartment in Vietnam. So I designed this poster. I’ve always liked propaganda posters – this flips its usual visual grammar of labour, productivity to a cheeky … Read more
If we’re not actively regenerating – are we really designing for the future? Been catching up on my never-ending list of farm chores. Yesterday, I spent hours cutting down massive fallen tree limbs that were wedged in the trunk of another gum tree. The cut logs will be put to good use – mushroom logs, … Read more
Teaching is about guiding students toward mastery, like a modern-day apprenticeship. 🔨 I was hanging out with Dr Ben Byrne (Program Manager, Digital Media) last week, chatting about the exciting studios lined up for our Digital Media program next semester. As always, it’s a real Digital Design smorgasbord – UX/UI, immersive design, interactive, sound design, … Read more