This workshop is designed to help practitioners from a range of disciplines envisage and explore opportunities to seed systems change through small-scale interventions in their everyday practices. The hands-on activity demonstrates how relational theories of systems change can be applied in practice to awaken and inspire individual and collective agency.
The presenters have adapted Dickie Humphries’ work on Indigenising systems and systems change to visualise the agential relationships between individual practices and larger structures. Taking time to locate and explore these critical connections and exchanges offers opportunities to play with small-scale interventions and ‘micro-moves’ that can be put to work to move our practices in ways that can seed and support large-scale structural shifts we hope to see in the world.
For DIA Accredited Designers, attendance at this event is worth 1 informal CPD Point.
Participants
Alisdair Gurling
Alisdair Gurling is a PhD Candidate at the WonderLab at Monash University. His work sits at the intersection of design, technology and learning. His thesis titled ‘Digital Prosthetics – Neurodiversity and the connected mind’, focuses on how neurodivergent learners can extend their cognition to digital environments to transform how they find and generate meaning in a connected world. He does this by co-creating new approaches with communities and by pulling from his own experiences as a neurodivergent learner.
Myf Doughty
Myf Doughty is an independent curator, writer, and PhD candidate in WonderLab, Department of Design at Monash University. Her practice-research experiments with emergent modes of curation and configurations as a change praxis for art institutions in and amidst crises.
This workshop is designed to help practitioners from a range of disciplines envisage and explore opportunities to seed systems change through small-scale interventions in their everyday practices. The hands-on activity demonstrates how relational theories of systems change can be applied in practice to awaken and inspire individual and collective agency.
The presenters have adapted Dickie Humphries’ work on Indigenising systems and systems change to visualise the agential relationships between individual practices and larger structures. Taking time to locate and explore these critical connections and exchanges offers opportunities to play with small-scale interventions and ‘micro-moves’ that can be put to work to move our practices in ways that can seed and support large-scale structural shifts we hope to see in the world.
For DIA Accredited Designers, attendance at this event is worth 1 informal CPD Point.
Participants
Alisdair Gurling
Alisdair Gurling is a PhD Candidate at the WonderLab at Monash University. His work sits at the intersection of design, technology and learning. His thesis titled ‘Digital Prosthetics – Neurodiversity and the connected mind’, focuses on how neurodivergent learners can extend their cognition to digital environments to transform how they find and generate meaning in a connected world. He does this by co-creating new approaches with communities and by pulling from his own experiences as a neurodivergent learner.
Myf Doughty
Myf Doughty is an independent curator, writer, and PhD candidate in WonderLab, Department of Design at Monash University. Her practice-research experiments with emergent modes of curation and configurations as a change praxis for art institutions in and amidst crises.
