current projects
the fieldwork project
The Fieldwork Project is a Community Interest Company combining research, evaluation, and learning with hands-on, community-based practice. Through creative, land-based, and participatory work, we create spaces in Crystal Palace where new ways of organising, relating, and supporting each other can take root—especially in contexts marked by exclusion, displacement, and structural inequality.
negotiating gender and sexuality in frontline migrant support services
This project welcomes participation from staff and volunteers at migration support services, as well as migrants, refugees and people with experience seeking asylum to collaborate with us to develop resources to support service providers and users overcome the challenges they face when negotiating gender and sexuality.
reclaiming participation: an ethical struggle played out through design
This project is a continuation of my PhD during which I developed a framework to support service providers to evaluate design participation and build the capability of service users to use design to reconfigure their social care relations. I continue to develop the framework through its application in different organisational settings.
past projects
data objects
2017-2018
A collaborative project to embed data into the form and function of objects to improve data literacy and generate citizen dialogue.
who is kanjung ratu?
2017-2021
A collaborative project which speculates about the future of Yogyakarta’s coastal communities through the retelling of Javanese mythology.
practice based history of art learning
2022-2023
A project with the V&A Academy to review creative learning practices in the field of art and design history.
what did you teach my students?
2017
An interview with Pak Imam Buchori about the ways that Victor Papanek influenced him as an academic, teacher, and designer in Indonesia.
part-e: participation evaluation
2013-2016
A collaborative project which developed an open framework to enable and encourage collective interdisciplinary reflection on design participation which could be fed back into practice and build organisational learning.
opportunity lab
2011-2016
A social design lab that provided support to academics, students and professionals at the Singapore University of Technology and Design to practice, study and enhance design for social change in South and Southeast Asia.
unmet social needs
2014-2015
A series of participatory action research workshops to improve elder care and disability service design in Singapore, with the intention of redefining how people might co-design social services in Singapore.
design for public health
2013-2015
A tri-disciplinary design workshop for students to better understand and identify which products and services have the greatest potential to create, sustain and monitor a healthy population in Kerala, India.
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