Design

Design Research Field Work: Nature Relations Project

Led by Professors Kate Fletcher (UK) and Louise St Pierre (CA) and with Zack Camozzi (CA) I participated in Field Work as part of the Nature Relations collaborative research project in 2023. Together we conducted field work in our own locations and came together online and in person where possible to share our experiences, observations and insights. We collectively explored ways to foster new actions in design disciplines, towards a partnership approach with nature. “With awareness of the ecological realities in design and the continuous need for nurturing collaborations with nature, we put stories, moments and conversations at the heart of the project.” (Nature Relations, Occasional Press 2023).

https://www.academia.edu/98121462/Attentive_and_Appreciative_Designers_Connecting_with_More_Than_Human_Beings

Image: A page from the Nature Relations book (2023)and a photograph from my local neighbourhood considering the complexity and inter-relations of moss, lichen and wood.

A Darker Eden

Some cities are darker than others; more mysterious, more romantic, more creative. In the southern hemisphere Melbourne and Dunedin share that reputation and both have used it to tell their stories. Dunedin’s neo-gothic and colonial architecture, four-seasons- in-one-day weather, and harbour and hills setting have long attracted writers, artists, musicians and fashion and jewellery designers, poets and architects to settle here. Creativity and non-conformity are part of its life force, nurtured and incubated by the Otago Polytechnic, the University of Otago and the rich local creative community.
A DARKER EDEN: Fashion from DUNEDIN celebrates the creative context that is unique to Dunedin, which travels around the world and which has the world travelling to it.
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Curators Jane Malthus and Margo Barton, designed by Caro McCaw and Leyton Glen, print and catalogue design by Martin Kean.

Silo Six gallery, Silo Park, Wynyard Quarter 2014.

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/283083073_Interplay_and_Inter-place_A_collaborative_exhibition_addressing_place-based_identity_in_fashion_design

SPēC

Dunedin’s Radio One published this alternative music media 1991 – 1996.SPECsm

My involvement as designer 1992 – 94 brought an aesthetic and political intention associated with post-structural efforts to include readers as active participants and co-constructers of the text.

Editors David Merritt and Danny Butt.