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Dr Carolyn Barnes is Associate Dean (Research) in the Faculty of Design, Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne, where she is involved in a range of research projects investigating the role of art and design in public contexts such a the museum, with participatory design being a growing research interest. She is an assistant editor of the International Journal of Design and a member of the editorial board of The Journal of Visual Arts Practice and Visual:Design:Scholarship: Research Journal of the Australian Graphic Design Association. She writes regularly on contemporary Australian art, concentrating mainly on abstraction. Craftsman House published her monograph on the Hong Kong-Australian artist John Young in 2005.
Having been born a while ago and done some things, I’m now Research Fellow at the University of Western Sydney’s Urban Research Centre. I completed my PhD on housing affordability and urban sustainability in 2006 and have carried these themes forward in my work in my current role.
Specifically, I'm interested in multi-stakeholder mechanisms of land stewardship and the decommodification of property in urban environments. I base this work on the application of resilience and adaptive comanagement to urban housing and food systems. I want to know how we can apply complex systems theory and design to socially and ecologically just urban tenure and governance mechanisms as well as to physical systems. Practically, I like community land trusts, cohousing and community supported agriculture schemes.
The Australian Centre for Social Innovation (TACSI) exists to identify and support the innovative ideas, methods and people that will contribute to and accelerate positive social change.
To turn bold ideas into better lives.
TACSI is The Australian Centre for Social Innovation.
Basically, we are a social innovation laboratory (more a 'do-tank' than a 'think tank') with the twin roles of testing ideas, methods and projects and brokering partnerships (developing relationships) between all the different players in the social innovation space (from individuals to community groups, companies to government).
I am trained as a teacher and councillor, but have spent more time workig with kids outside the classroom than in, i started in outdoor education, then started the northern chapter of the handson learning project, then went to thailand and built 45 playgrounds. I love nothing more than to find solutions to problems in a practical, sustainable way.
I am the founder of a startup organisation that has been building playgrounds in the developing world for the last few years. we are now moving all the information we have gathered online into a collaborative open source format that will offer language less plans and resources to allow anyone the ability to build a great playspace that is 1) safe )2 affordable (we use recycled and sustainable materials) and 3) awesome. we believe in education but we believe that its outside a classroom where children practise and master so many of the essential skills for life like, cooperation,imagination, problem-solving freindship, conflict resolution etc
Name is Kennedy Tau (aka Mr Old School). Founder of the SHAKOBE FOUNDATION, a self-funded family charity established in memory of my baby, SHAKOBE Tau, who died from leukemia on the 4th November 2003. The foundation currently provides scholarships for under-privileged kids in Tonga. A new project is planned to be launched on 4 November 2010, to grant wishes of terminally-ill children with cancer in Tonga. Since I lost my son to cancer, I have embarked on a journey to be able to give back to child cancer and under-privileged youth in my homeland, Tonga. This has really helped me cope with my loss and has been my main passion since 2003.
I am a public relations/communications professional specialising within the not-for-profit sector. Organisations I have worked with include Time for Kids,a respite provider for underprivileged children in South Australia. YES (Youth Emergency Services), working with young people experiencing or/at risk of homelessness to reduce the risk and impact of their homelessness. I love the fact that in life everything is simply an idea put into action. I am interested in collaborating with like-minded people and eager to get some innovative ideas in action!
25 y.o Paralegal/recruiter....who loves business challenges!!
tender writer / project manager - fascinated by game theory as applied to procurement models and how we will ensure accessibility to existing, document based models for the nintendo generation.
Women's Counsellor / Facilitator specialising in Menstrual Health & Wellbeing (psycho-spiritual perspective). INFP, 44yoa, Mother of 2, love hearing people's stories and what makes them tick. Priveleged in my working life as I get to speak with wonderful people every day. Always learning.
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