PhD Scholar
Design-led Methods for Sustainability
E-mail: viveka.hocking@anu.edu.au

Something about: Design as Research, Sustainability and Significant Value.

A metadesign project > Reorienting design towards 'non-object-orientated design' making central the activity of design > Highlighting design's place in the system of everyday life and its role in generating our 'culture of living' > Opening up the design conversation and sharing the ability to design > Establishing the activity of design as a kind of research methodology with an aptitude for answering questions about the future > Developing a design-led method of significant value both to the field of Design and the research community at large like the social sciences > Showing how such design-led research and research-led design can contribute to contemporary agendas like sustainability.