Socially-Engaged Design Research Network
About us
Adapting to dynamic climates in the everyday often relies on datafication and calculation, resulting in ‘solutions’ modelled on business as usual. Rarely, does the conversation about adaptation to internal and external climatics explore everyday experimental practices and embodied poetics of knowledge to find alternatives to dominant social imaginaries.
The Socially-Engaged Design Research Network (SEDR) proposes that interrogations of intimate scenes between people and things – where change is rehearsed to recover a language of movement from a starting position of inertia – are too often neglected in design.
Through provocative designs for health, for alternatives to climate control, and for new sensations of climatics, the SEDR coordinates new dialogues about the socio-materialities of situated embodied experiences, social spatial practices and dynamic climates in the everyday.
Our people
Academic network members
Dr Alison Gill Western Sydney University
Professor Abby Mellick-Lopes University of Technology Sydney
Shannon Philp University of Sydney
Acknowledgement of Country
UNSW School of Art & Design stands on an important place of learning and exchange first occupied by the Bidjigal and Gadigal peoples.
We acknowledge the Bidjigal and Gadigal peoples as the Traditional Custodians of the land that our students and staff share, create and operate on. We pay our respects to Elders past and present and extend this respect to all First Nations peoples across Australia. Sovereignty has never been ceded.
