My doctoral research is aimed at developing expanded roles and strategies for design that conform to a holistic approach to sustainability that includes more considered everyday practices, the way we construct identities, develop meaningful relationships, and understand personal fulfillment and well-being. I am especially interested in the attributes design offers as a critical mode of inquiry and intervention, investigating exploratory approaches to design that fall outside conventional approaches to commercial design practice.
Artefacts play an influential role in our lives, co-shaping our behaviours and everyday practices, mediating our relationships with one another and the world around us. How we understand and navigate the complex contexts that shape their creation has important implications not only for the way we address current concerns over the environment, technology, and the pressing contexts of our day, but for the ever renewing cyclical inquiry into what it is to be human in the built world.
