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I develop design exemplars, case studies, and principles concerning how to make complex, abstract, and often invisible phenomena visual and tangible in order to spark innovative solutions from, and relationships among diverse experts and between and among non-experts across a wide variety of domains. In particular, designing for collaboration and social interaction between people, disciplines, organisations and locations that do not normally interact.

A graduate of Environmental Art at Glasgow School of Art, and a holder of a PhD in facilitation from SDU's Engineering Faculty, my research, teaching and practice draw upon a diverse background that includes community development, market research, event promotion, cultural management, science communication and new media curating. This has ranged from bright lights, big city stuff with some of the biggest names in the music business, to creative activities with children and the elderly on the remote Scottish island of Orkney.