About
I am an Australian designer based between Lisbon and London. I’m interested in design justice, self-organisation and grassroots politics. I spend my time designing, researching, listening, imagining, prototyping, facilitating, writing, teaching and gardening. Through my practice, I explore how design can be used to enable people to organise, amplify marginalised voices, facilitate dialogue, and imagine post-capitalist futures.
I primarily work as part of Common Knowledge, a not-for-profit worker cooperative that uses design and technology to help social movements build power. We collaborate with a broad range of political organisations who are imagining and building radically different futures, using our digital expertise to multiply their impact.
Collaboration is at the heart of my practice. I’m part of the Center for Other Worlds, an interdisciplinary research centre for design and art based at the Lusófona University in Lisbon. As part of collectives like Designers + Cultural Workers and Evening Class, I’ve contributed to building support structures for precarious workers.
I’ve worked as a graphic and interactive designer in the United Kingdom, The Netherlands and Australia. I’ve held teaching positions at Central St Martins and London College of Communication, and have given talks and workshops at institutions like the University of Cambridge, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, HBK Braunschweig, Kingston School of Art, Rhode Island School of Design and Parsons School of Design.
Contact
Current and upcoming
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Course, Design, Non Design
Design Lusófona Lisboa, PT
with Eva Gonçalves
Previously
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Lecture, Models and Methods
Kingston School of Art, London, UK -
Seminar, Transformative Work as Livelihood
MA Eco-Social Design, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, IT -
Participant, Mobilizing Hearts and Minds course
The ReImagining Value Action Lab -
Conversation, Radio Robida
Topolò, IT
with How Melnyczuk -
Practice Retreat, Community Economies in Action
Rovereto, IT -
Lecture, The Designer as…
Faculdade Belas-Artes da Universidade de Lisboa, PT -
Workshops, Community-Led Design Practices
BA Graphic Design, Kingston School of Art, London, UK -
Talk, Politics of Design
SuperHi -
Symposium, The Forest Multiple
University of Cambridge, UK -
Conversation, Good Times Bad Times
Rotterdam, NL -
Discussion, Means of Organisation
The New Centre -
Lecture, Building Collective Sovereignty
Weizenbaum Conference, Berlin, DE -
Workshops, UnFound Accelerator 2022
UK -
Lecture, Worker Cooperatives
BA Graphic Design, Kingston School of Art, London, UK -
Conversation, Design & Politics
Rhode Island School of Design, US -
Interview, Caps Lock
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Article, How to Run a Design Sprint
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Workshops, UnFound Accelerator 2021
UK -
Panel discussion, What Next?
Central Saint Martins, London, UK -
Lecture, Core 2 Interaction Studio
Parsons, New York, US -
Interview, General Intellect Unit
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Workshop, The Reciprocal Studio, MA Graphic Media Design
London College of Communication, UK
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Associate Lecturer, BA User Experience Design
London College of Communication, UK -
Panel discussion, The World Transformed
London, UK -
Discussion, (How) do we (want to) work (together) (as (socially engaged) designers (students and neighbors)) (in neoliberal times)?
as part of UVW-DCW -
Talk, Designing the Future
Space4, London, UK -
Teach-out, Designers & Cultural Workers need a union, too
LCC picket line, London, UK
as part of UVW-DCW -
Workshop, Internet Health Report
London College of Communication, UK -
Evening Class
London, UK -
Associate Lecturer, BA Graphic Communication Design
Central Saint Martins, London, UK -
Talk, Dissenting Ephemera
MayDay Rooms, London, UK -
Talk, Design's Agency
HBK Braunschweig, DE -
Interview, Digital Tools for Self-Organised Change
Nebula -
Workshop, Building Alternatives
Hurra Hurra festival, Halle, DE
as part of Evening Class -
Residency, La Foresta
Rovereto, IT -
Residency, Casa Sasso
Vairano, CH -
Future Corp
London, UK -
Workshop, Internet Health Report
Ravensbourne University, London, UK -
Interview, Perpetual Beta & Post-Capitalist Desires
Walker Art Centre, Minneapolis, US
as part of Evening Class -
Interview, Creative Lives in Progress
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Vandejong
Amsterdam, NL -
LUST
The Hague, NL -
MDes, Design Futures
Queensland College of Art, AU