It’s been a profoundly challenging time of uncertainty and isolation. As such, it feels particularly timely and comforting to welcome three new care-full creatures to our lab. We’re elated to be working and playing alone for now, but together in solidarity.
They include two Research Fellows working on the EU H2020 project, CreaTures: Creative Practices for Transformational Futures.
Kat Braybrooke has been working as a Research Fellow working across RMIT Europe and the University of Sussex since the beginning of 2020. Kat is a digital anthropologist and designer whose work explores the critical implications of creative production (from making and hacking to craft) and third spaces (like makerspaces in museums) around the world in places like Europe and China, and their associations with social and environmental justice. She is also currently a Visiting Researcher at King’s College London, and a co-founder of the creative research lab Studio We & Us, which combats atomisation by working with institutional spaces to foster new modes of public participation.
Cristina Ampatzidou has a background in Architecture and Urbanism. Cristina is joining us as a Research Fellow at RMIT Europe after working as an embedded researcher at the University of Amsterdam, and completing her doctoral study in gaming and urban complexity at the University of Groningen. She is a film programmer for the Architecture Film Festival of Rotterdam, and founder of research-driven practice Amateur Cities.
We also have a PhD Researcher with backgrounds in Creative Arts and Education joining us.
Kelly Ka-Lai Chan is a video ethnographer and educator, who makes videos to tell stories about humans and more-than-humans. Kelly was a lecturer at Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts & Hong Kong Art School before joining RMIT to do a PhD study on using visual methods to explore identities of artist-activists in Hong Kong.
We are curious, open, and always seeking allies to care-fully co-create futures together. Please find out more about our people here and do get in touch!
Also, don’t forget we’re still looking for someone to do a PhD with us. More information here: http://rmit.edu.au/creatures-scholarship
