- RT @OpnTbl: This Sunday is the final Open Table pilot dinner - now we want to talk about the future! #brunswick #community #sharingiscaring
- The 6th and final Open Table dinner is this Sunday. Love to see your face there. https://t.co/QrIFYYLe6R via @OpnTbl #dinner
- RT @Bill_Sutherland: Want a lectureship in Sustainability Science at excellent Lancaster Environment Centre? They are giving away four! htt…
- Foucault explained with Hipsters http://t.co/dowSZMiw9R #Foucault #hipsters #tgif
- All booked for #MONA Dark MoFo - looking forward to Fantasia and Conversations in the Dark - program is chockers http://t.co/hrDEEvzsF9
- Heading out to a blind date with destiny. #crowdedhouse
Tag Archives: Research
Pursuit of wisdom
Since starting this academic caper I am constantly surprised at how much I really don’t know. There’s more research after a PhD?!? It takes six months to publish an article?!? The study on Balinese cocktailology got funding?!? The more I … Continue reading
Collective Agency & Institutions, Sustainability, and the Capability Approach
I was in Leipzig for a workshop on Collective Agency, which was very inspiring and thought provoking, and I wanted to share all of the discussions here, but they were so proliferate and sometimes disparate that I am going to … Continue reading
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Tagged agency, Christoph Görg, Collective Agency, Durkheim, ethical individualism, Giddens, global society, individual, Leipzig, natural environment, nature, Research, routine, social theory, societal individuals, structuration, structure, Sustainability, Weber
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Transition Framework: towards future practices of sustainable washing
“Personal washing routines are currently the most water intensive activity in Irish households” Irish researchers recently published a report on sustainable washing practices, right up my alley. This report is particularly interesting as they imagine a sustainable washing future, and … Continue reading
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Tagged backcasting, cleanliness, collective conventions, Laundry, Research, Washing, washing less, water
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Call for Presentations of Papers @ RMIT Commune
RMIT Sustainability commune is currently inviting postgraduate researchers and thinkers in sustainable fashion to present research papers, practice presentations and workshops at the second annual Commune @ RMIT Brunswick on the 18th July 2012. Commune is a Festival, Market and … Continue reading
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Tagged Commune, conference, Holly McQuillan, Kate Fletcher, Linda Jackson, Research, RMIT, RMIT Brunswick, Sustainability, sustainable fashion
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Nobody was Dirty at NGV
Nobody was Dirty has just finished up at The National Gallery of Victoria. I was happy to have such thoughtful engagement from everyday people, and my research is much more complete for attracting this element of community review. Below are … Continue reading
BioCouture for The Vine
Posted in TheVine, writing
Tagged bacteria, BioCouture, cellulose, Central Saint Martins, clothes farming, Fashioning The Future, green tea, Research, sugar, sustainable fashion, Suzanne Lee, textile
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The Great Unwashed
The University of Melbourne made this video about my work recently. It gives a pretty good overview of the sort of ideas I’m playing with. Thanks to Ted Yu Shen Chen for his comments and Laura Soderlind, Clive Banfield and … Continue reading