I'm an interdisciplinary researcher and creative practitioner.
Currently, I’m a research fellow at the School of Environment, University of Auckland.
My academic research has a social and cultural focus. My work has interrogated human-environment relations, governance frameworks and investigated creative methods. This has included government-funded work investigating environmental certification and nation branding projects in NZ. Doctoral research, based at the Australian Centre for Cultural Environmental Research, developed a framework for Anthropocene dwelling, interrogating sites of ecological emergency and responses to insecure planetary dwelling.
Recent research takes interest with conceptual and imaginal stretching provoked by more-than-human ontologies and emerging post-humanisms. Current projects focus on grappling with planetary and geophilosopical themes, extending to post-planetarity and the exo; and with computational emergence and artificial intelligence.
I have a professional background in social design applying design principles to champion social, cultural, and environmental issues. I’ve worked in NZ, Australia, and the UK over the last 30 years for social design studios, international NGOs, within innovation networks, and more recently through my own consultancy. Clients have included local government and government agencies, NGOs and change agencies, education and research institutes, and arts and culture organisations (refer to my studio website). And I have served as lecturer, tutor, and examiner within university programmes in NZ and Australia.
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