About

I am a designer, researcher, and lecturer. 

Last year I relocated back to Belfast, where I was born, after 20 years of international design experience - the last decade in Norway. 

My practice is driven by design for equality; how design shapes society and our personhood, how design determines who feels valued, who gets to participate, who is allowed to thrive. I am keen to translate Scandinavian participatory ways of working, into communities in Belfast, that bring together a diversity of lived experiences to collectively experiment and improvise ways in which design can craft equality. 

I lecture part-time at the National College of Art & Design in Dublin within their Department of Design for Body & Environment. I lead 1st years on the Circular by Design MA and BDes students in Design for Social Good. I guide students through human-centred design practices and speculative future systems that care for each other and our environment. At the core are projects embedded in real life challenges that create the conditions for wider societal change. 

I am also completing the writing of my practice-based PhD thesis on inclusive participatory design methods within the Department of Design at NTNU in Norway, where I have studied and worked since 2017 on a variety of design meets disability projects. This website documents this journey.