Fumbling Towards Change: Reimagining Built Environment Practice Through Shared Responsibility And Collective Care
Presented by home language, grounded studios
DETAILS
Ticketed
Grounded Studios
1/216 Albion St, Brunswick VIC, Australia
This pecha kucha-style event shares the experiences of five designers/thinkers/scholars who are fumbling with how to practice differently in the face of extreme ambivalence*.
The presenters will provide insight into the different ways of knowing, doing, and becoming they weave into their evolving practice. They will reflect on the values their practice embodies and what it means to craft environments that endeavour to heal, replenish, and enable life. They will share snippets of where they have struggled, failed, and found unexpected joy, followed by a facilitated conversation with the presenters to draw connections between the ideas and reflection shared and what it means to reimagine the way we create environments to bring into being a world of shared responsibility, collective care and beauty.
Participants
Emily Cox
Emily is a designer and Director of Grounded Studios based on the lands of the Kulin Nation. Emily’s research-led practice brings relational ethics into design processes that are grounded in the connections between people and place. Working collaboratively, thinking critically, and working into systemic cracks to foster regeneration is a common thread linking Emily’s work in design, education and research, community development and advocacy.
Dr Holly Farley
Holly is a white Australian designer who specialises in co-design and collaborative approaches to engagement, research and education within the built environment. She works with communities, organisations and design teams to centre cultural knowledge and lived experiences, facilitating collective understandings and co-creating outcomes. Holly has led and supported co-design, research and strategic projects at the intersection of the built environment, housing, residential aged care, health and social services. A commitment to justice-doing through sensitively supporting and co-creating processes, projects and inclusive systems and environments is at the heart of Holly’s practice.
Dr Kathy Waghorn
Hailing from Aotearoa New Zealand, Kathy is co-director of HOOPLA, a Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland based ultra-local practice carrying out urban research for place advocacy. HOOPLA is engaged with how people know, use and value places. Kathy currently lives on the lands of the Kulin Nation where she is an Associate Professor at Monash University and member of the Monash Urban Lab.
Professor Libby Porter
Libby is a planner and urban geographer working on the role of planning and urban development in dispossession and displacement, and what we might do about it. Her research has examined Indigenous rights in urban and environmental planning; cities and diversity; gentrification and displacement through urban renewal; the impact of mega-events on cities; urban sustainability; and urban informality. Her current work is in the areas of public housing, displacement and critical property studies, urban governance, decolonisation and the urban condition of settler-colonial dynamics of power.
Dr Matthew Campbell
Matt is a lecturer in Treaty at The University of Melbourne. His interest is in the political and epistemic aspects of situations where Indigenous and non-Indigenous people come together. He is interested in how issues of responsibility, accountability and ethics arise within inter-institutional work, and how they configure the work that people do.