Public Lecture: Dr Andy Miller, creaturelystories: practicing ecologies

​This lecture will reflect on key projects and experiments that embody “practicing ecologies”: creative acts that open spaces for alternative ways of being, designing, and relating in the face of ecological crisis. By sharing creaturely stories, Andy invites audiences to think-feel their own ecological connections, and to consider design as a practice of reciprocity, imagination, and transformation. Working from the position that all design is ecological, always situated within networks of interdependence, in the development of a “feel-think” design practice. This mode of working resists separation between theory and making, instead weaving together design, animism, storytelling, and digital tools to explore how we might live and make otherwise in a multispecies world.

​Andy Miller is practice-based design researcher and academic lecturer in the School of Architecture and Urban Design at RMIT University. His feel-think practice explores ideas of complex ecologies and interrelatedness through technologies, animism, and creative practice mash-up to help foster alternative ways of making, living and being in a multispecies world. Andy has worked, published and exhibited locally and internationally and is also research fellow at RMIT Regen Futures Institute, and co-founder and director of Collective is Critical, a transdisciplinary design collective focused on commons-based and ecological understandings of the built environment to foster social and environmental change and founding member of the Spatial Temporal Laboratory and former research fellow at RMIT Spatial Information Architecture Laboratory (SIAL) and Urban Futures Lab at University of Melbourne.

​This lecture is part of a series curated by Athanasios Lazarou and Saskia Schut
Architecture and Landscape Architecture Programs, Adelaide University.

​Light refreshments served from 5:30, for a 6pm start.