DrBarbara Doran

In this episode Rodger Watson and Barbara Doran explore: How we need to get out of analysis paralysis – in life and organisations Why reframing the way we look at things can bring new solutions Why we are all creatively intelligent How innovation needs to start with a playful space and why we need to globally embrace play How the opposite of play is depression Design Abduction – different ways of thinking – put aside the ‘what’ and the ‘how’ Why their new book is just such an amazing read Building on the above, they dive into why we all need to embrace more: Creativity/Play and Flow Probing and Blitzing Visualising Conversations Scaling Stories As always, there are some great thought experiments including: Guess the school report (yes, the name needs some work) Something’s afoot Moriarty!

The Southern Forest Arts centre in Northcliffe is currently facilitating Home: Sculptural Habitats, a sculpture commission and community connection project with artist, Peter Hill. #Space22 Subscribe now: http://ab.co/subscribe Peter is working with schools to create a series of new sculptural installations for the Understory Art & Nature trail in Northcliffe. The project is aimed at battling the sense of powerlessness many young people feel in the face of climate change, and to show them the incredible power of affirmative action - one habitat-creating artwork at a time. Part of Space 22 series which follows seven strangers, each with their own lived experience of mental ill health, as they take part in an ambitious experiment to test if the simple act of participating in art can help heal invisible wounds.

Support for Centre for Carers Research: early career research grant. Internship co-ordination and curation for an exhibition communicating health care innovations for parents and clinicians working with children who has feeding difficulties. Provide expertise in transdisciplinary creative practice, with a specific focus on applications in arts and health.

Social impact grant project: Curation and organisation of National Carer's week event and exhibition at UTS Making Meaning: Art as acts of Care. Partners include Centre for Carers Research; TD School; Centre for Social Justice and Inclusion; UTS IMPACCT; Carers NSW, NSW Department of Communities and Justice (Carers Unit); NCOSS; SPHERE Knowledge Translation Platform.

Contribution to UTS Disability Network. Network connections, workshop design and pan university strategy

Network connecting between industry partners Mission Australia, Columbo Social and South Eastern Sydney Local Health District to assist for food distress in the early phase of Covid-19 lockdown, 2021

Industry Partnership between TD School BCII students and Mission Australia to create crisis support materials for public housing residents during the first lockdown of Covid-19. Students undertaking the subject Industry Partnership Project worked with their partners Mission Australia to create resources to bridge digital communication gaps and access to support during the early and acute distress phases of the first lockdown in Sydney.

National Institue of Dramatic Arts (NIDA) Research Comittee, NIDA