Design Studies, History and Theory

Capability Discourses

  1. 305 Service Design: Prototyping a portable service design course for implementation in India, 2010.
  2. Design Thinking 2006 (Pitch on Prezi)
  3. Disruptive Innovation 2007
  4. Grow Your Inner Entrepreneur (Course Post) 2017
  5. Social Innovation: Developing social innovation micro-ventures, 2006.

Asia and Global Citizenship

  1. Asian Design: Developing an appreciation of Asian material culture, 2009. (PDF ad_handout)
  2. Born Global
  3. Reading India (PDF Course Handout reading-india-handout)
  4. Great Civilizations: Developing capacity in working in the Asian Context (China, India, South Korea, Japan, Turkey, Thailand, Indonesia)

Sustainability and Effective Altruism

  1. Design Activism: Making activist designers of students, 2010~ongoing.
  2. Cultural Amplification: Reprising Anxious Objects, exploring Fear, Anxiety and Intolerance through artefacts, 2005.
  3. lOO Years – Womens Suffrage Victoria
  4. Global South: To develop an appreciation of Innovation in Sustainability in the Global South, 2016.
  5. Green Maps Melbourne, 2006
  6. Serving the Unserved: Developing service design capability, while reading Henry Reynolds, 2010.
  7. Spending Habits (video): Developing capability in Sustainable Consumption, 2006 (Course Handout PDF spending-habits-handout)
  8. Social Innovation: Developing social innovation micro-ventures, 2006.

Form and Aesthetics

  1. Cultural Amplification: Reprising Anxious Objects, exploring Fear, Anxiety and Intolerance through artefacts, 2005.
  2. POMO: Getting under skin of post-modernism, 2000.
  3. The Poetics of Open Work 2016
  4. History of Design, isms