I am a design researcher grounded in cultural geography, leading creative and collaborative work that investigates the how people experience the spaces, design and technology of their everyday lives. To support the value of experiential knowledge, I develop new concepts and creative and ethnographic methodologies in projects applied to diverse contexts. This includes collaborating on design engagement activities with global social impact partners that motivate real-world change by imagining hopeful futures and identifying how to reach them.

With a strong commitment to interdisciplinary scholarship, I am an author of 100+ publications, investigating a wide range of topics: robot geographies, commemorative sites and events, national identity, lighting design, design ethnographic methodologies and affective-digital entanglements in public space. I have won $3m+ in researching funding from universities and national research councils in Australia, Denmark and the UK, philanthropic foundations Wellcome Trust and Humanity United, and private industry partners. Through research projects with the public and cultural sector, I have contributed to public space design in my home city of Melbourne. I am a co-creator of The Tomorrow Party, an award-winning workshop for imagining hopeful futures and building commitment for change, that has been used at major international gatherings, including COP28 and New York Climate Week, to build collective agency for transformative action. I welcome inquiries from potential PhD students.