Data Otherwise
Data Otherwise: More-than-Human Data Practices at DRS 2026 What if the problem with data isn’t its volume, its accuracy, or its resolution, but what it forecloses? This was the question that structured two of the more intellectually ambitious activities at DRS 2026 in Edinburgh: a full theme track on more-than-human data practices, and a companion […]
DRS 2026 summary and list of RMIT papers
I’ve been fortunate to be at DRS 2026 in Edinburgh this week, about to catch a train and then plane home back to Melbourne. “Get back to work Speed”. I have to say I didn’t really know what I was getting into in moving to Naarm, RMIT, School of Design. Who does when it’s 10,500 […]
Making Knowledge, Fragmenting Certainty
Friday 22nd, 2026 at Monash, design researchers presented artifacts from their practice—Jon McCormack’s language device with personality sliders, Bec Nally and Yaw Ofosu-Asare’s Mars-based pedagogy, Scott Mayson’s prosthetic casting system, and work on the Queer Stories installation. What struck me wasn’t the objects themselves but how they all resisted clean resolution and commodifiable outcomes. The […]