I am passionate about bridging design and research to foster inclusivity. I have recently moved back to Belfast, after 8 years in Norway, and would love to expand my involvement in meaningful community design projects.
Through my practice-based PhD, I collaborated with neurodivergent communities to design more nourishing environments through embodied ethnography, participatory design, and iterative prototyping that engages diverse sensory experiences. We focused on clothing as the most intimate environment to the moving body; a much reported problematic sensory trigger yet vastly under-researched area.
For the last year I have been working freelance to translate the insights from my research into industry through workshops, design consultancies and residences, as well as guest lectures and teaching in education institutions. I’d love to continue this work in a multitude of contexts, capacities, and environments.
