About the organisers
Claudia Núñez-Pacheco
Design Lab
Sydney School of Architecture, Design and Planning
University of Sydney
[email protected]
Claudia Núñez-Pacheco is a designer, Focusing practitioner and PhD candidate from the Design Lab at the University of Sydney. Her research investigates how bodily self-awareness can be used as a tool for human self-discovery as well as a crafting material for design, art and technology. In her research journey, she has engaged in a multidisciplinary exploration that merges wearable technology and the novel inclusion of Focusing as a design method and philosophy. Claudia currently teaches Design Thinking to undergraduate and postgraduate levels at the Design Lab, University of Sydney.
Dr. Lian Loke
Design Lab
Sydney School of Architecture, Design and Planning
University of Sydney
[email protected]
Lian Loke is an interaction design researcher and performance artist, who places the lived body at the core of inquiry into contemporary issues and emerging technologies. Her research and creative practice is interdisciplinary and spans the arts, design and human-computer interaction. She has an established research program of working with somatic practitioners and dancers to inform the design and human experience of body-focused interactive systems. She is the Director of the Master of Interaction Design and Electronic Arts, University of Sydney.
Claudia Núñez-Pacheco
Design Lab
Sydney School of Architecture, Design and Planning
University of Sydney
[email protected]
Claudia Núñez-Pacheco is a designer, Focusing practitioner and PhD candidate from the Design Lab at the University of Sydney. Her research investigates how bodily self-awareness can be used as a tool for human self-discovery as well as a crafting material for design, art and technology. In her research journey, she has engaged in a multidisciplinary exploration that merges wearable technology and the novel inclusion of Focusing as a design method and philosophy. Claudia currently teaches Design Thinking to undergraduate and postgraduate levels at the Design Lab, University of Sydney.
Dr. Lian Loke
Design Lab
Sydney School of Architecture, Design and Planning
University of Sydney
[email protected]
Lian Loke is an interaction design researcher and performance artist, who places the lived body at the core of inquiry into contemporary issues and emerging technologies. Her research and creative practice is interdisciplinary and spans the arts, design and human-computer interaction. She has an established research program of working with somatic practitioners and dancers to inform the design and human experience of body-focused interactive systems. She is the Director of the Master of Interaction Design and Electronic Arts, University of Sydney.