Lindsay is a social and service designer and vernacular architect with an interest in using design to transform the life chances of marginalised people. Her current research is focused on designing for care in both the disability and aged care spaces. She takes a collaborative and strengths-based approach that embeds lived experience at the heart of major societal and systems change.
Current projects include a partnership with disability services provider Northcott Innovation. Called A Good Life, the project is part of The Supported Living Lab, a co-design space in which Northcott clients and staff partner with service designers to create new solutions for a range of disability needs. Other recent work includes a project to reframe the challenge of damage to social housing properties, and another to effect behaviour change to minimise violence and aggression in hospital emergency departments.

Previously, Lindsay was the Director of the UTS Design Innovation Research Centre (2019-2021) and a senior researcher in the UTS Designing out Crime research group. Over 12 years, she worked on more than 100 externally funded research projects for public and private sector clients, including the NSW Department of Justice, Nepean Health, the City of Sydney and Broadspectrum. Many of these projects were informed by her background in vernacular architecture, which is concerned with the everyday practices and rituals of those that inhabit the built environment.

Lindsay is an experienced workshop facilitator who has delivered workshop-based, problem-reframing services to public and private agencies, service providers, social enterprises, local governments and communities. She was the co-editor of Vernacular Architecture in the 21st Century: Theory, Education and Practice (2006), a former guest editor for the Crime Prevention and Community Safety international journal, and a recent contributor to the Architecture Off Centre podcast.