The Re-Wilding Provocation

Dr. Liam Fennessy
Industrial Designer, RMIT University, Melbourne

In a time of human induced climate change and seemingly insurmountable challenges to maintain our natural systems: what roles can a designer play? Tacitly operating from producer-biased precepts of the location of meaning construction, designers often feel powerless to orient their practices as a productive ally to pro-conservation agendas. However, the design methods, technical capabilities and systems, and service thinking that designers excel at offer new strategies and novel approaches to tackling intractable problems.
This talk presents a series of design research projects that support conservation scientists to improve the welfare of wild animals in captivity, and the technologies required for maintaining insurance populations of endangered species.

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The talk will be held in English language.