29 Sep 2022 / Education and research

Open lectureMemory-making & Perspective-shifting: Designing for Transformation

We’re delighted to welcome Professor Lisa Grocott from Monash University, Australia, to present a keynote at Design School Kolding
By Marianne Baggesen Hilger

Professor Lisa Grocott will introduce a playful and practical approach to learning from and adapting to a rapidly changing world. Positioning transformation as the hard work of shifting how we show up in the world, Lisa will share modes of making that help do the work of surfacing scripts, unlearning old habits and embracing new ways of knowing and being. Her design-based research practice sits in conversation with interdisciplinary literature from transformative learning, affect theory, psychology, neuroscience and Indigenous knowing.

The event takes place from 10.00-11.00 on Wednesday 26 October 2022 in the entrance hall at Design School Kolding, Aagade 10, 6000 Kolding.

Join us to hear interdisciplinary reflections on how the social, unsettling, sensorial, and co-creative learning encounters can seed transformative change.

About
Professor Lisa Grocott is a co-design researcher who thrives on collaborating with interdisciplinary teams on social transformation projects. She believes co-design brings an integrative, participatory and relational orientation to research collaborations that cannot be addressed by one discipline alone. She currently leads the Future of Work and Learning research program in the Emerging Technologies Lab at Monash University. Lisa’s approach to designing for transformation is informed by collaborations with learning scientists, queer methodologists and social psychologists while drawing on her practice expertise and Indigenous knowing. Her people are Ngāti Kahugnunu from the east coast of Aotearoa, New Zealand. Her recent book Design for Transformative Learning: a Practical Approach to Memory-making and Perspective-shifting draws on Indigenous and interdisciplinary lessons from her education and decades of practice-based research. Her interest in transformation is informed by decades of leadership roles, including as the Dean of Academic Initiatives at Parsons in New York, Head of Design at Monash and Post-graduate Director in Design at RMIT.

“How can the social, unsettling, sensorial, and co-creative learning encounters seed transformative change?”