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I work across the domains of experimental interdisciplinary research and practice, transcultural collaboration, sound art, experimental radio, metadesign, and education change. My current research posits a speculative framework for radical inclusion and sympoietic literacy in design education and praxis through posthuman, pluriversal approaches to critical, reflexive, and collaborative engagement with diverse, hybrid, and emerging intelligences. 

As an advocate for radical inclusion, I co-founded Diversified in 2021 to examine how co-design can promote student voice in their courses through instructional co-production between neurodivergent ºÚÁÏÍø´óÊÂ¼Ç students and their instructors. This led to an industry collaboration with Esem Projects piloting a pluriversal participatory design framework for evaluating the impact of public space media through workshops with neurodivergent participants to create digital storytelling to be deployed on Esem Project’s public space media platform STORYBOX (https://storybox.co). 

In 2015 I co-founded mad.lab, an urban research platform in the megacity of Chongqing, South West China in collaboration with Priestman Architects and Sichuan Fine Arts Institute. mad.lab develops education, research, and industry projects to incubate, develop, and present innovative site-specific, mediated, and issue-based concepts for the future of cities. Building on this, I led the experimental study ‘metaPLACE’ (2019-2022) to examine the potential contribution of participatory design in urban design and placemaking in Chongqing, one of China’s largest and fastest growing cities. metaPLACE employed participatory urban media interfaces co-designed by researchers, industry stakeholders, and local government. It demonstrates how participatory design methods can support, collect, analyse and distribute public sentiment data to assist in transforming urban environments like Chongqing by fully deploying its rich cultural and social resources through end-user participation.