Kate Coleman

Associate Professor Kathryn (Kate) Coleman is a neurodivergent artist-educator working at the intersections of art, technology, climate futures, and teacher education at the University of Melbourne. As co-director of SWISP Lab and President of Art Education Australia, she leads internationally recognised work in speculative design, a/r/tography, and living-lab methodologies across Melbourne, Bengaluru, Delhi, Atlanta and beyond. Her research explores how creativity, digital humanities, and more-than-human pedagogies can transform teacher education in precarious times. Through collaborative storytelling, climate action, and studio-based inquiry, she works with teachers and young people to imagine and make more just, equitable and relational futures.

  1. Tipping Point Stories from COP30

    Within SWISP Lab’s Hacking the Anthropocene living lab methodology, the “At what point did you realise…?” prompt operates as more than a conversational opening. It is a methodological device that surfaces moments of recognition, rupture, and recalibration. The question directs attention toward critical thresholds: points in ecological, political, and affective systems where conditions shift irreversibly […]

    blogs.unimelb.edu.au/swisp/2025/12/04/tipping-point-stories-from-cop30

  2. New Publications for 2025

    Edited book Coleman, K., Cook, P. J., Healy, S., & MacDonald, A. (Eds.). (2025). Learning Through Art: Speculative Pasts and Pedagogical Imaginaries. InSEA. https://doi.org/10.24981/2025-LTASPPI Book chapters Coleman, K., Cook, P. J., Healy, S., & MacDonald, A. (2025). Position/ing – imaginary menagerie: Speculative a/r/tographies for the long now. In K. Coleman, P. J. Cook, S. Healy, […]

    blogs.unimelb.edu.au/swisp/2025/11/14/new-publications-for-2025

  3. #blogtakeover I Filippa Kier Droob I Stitching Together Practice and Theory: Tracing My First Encounter with A/r/tography

    What is an a/r/tographer? Had you asked me this question a couple of weeks ago, my answer would have been a pretty solid, “I couldn’t tell you.” Though now, almost four weeks into my three-month stay as a visiting scholar at the Faculty of Education at the University of Melbourne,my answer might be, “Me?”. Becoming […]

    blogs.unimelb.edu.au/swisp/2025/09/25/blogtakeover-i-filippa-kier-droob-i-stitching-together-practice-and-theory-tracing-my-first-encounter-with-a-r-tography

  4. Art Meets Science in a Time of Climate Collapse

    Is it radical to have an arts-based educational research lab inside a science gallery? Maybe. But perhaps what’s truly radical is that we’re still surprised by it! Launch of the lab at Science Gallery Melbourne, opening night with Dr Ryan Jefferies, Director, Science Gallery Melbourne and Dr Kate Coleman, SWISP Lab.  Image credit: Gregory Lorenzutti […]

    blogs.unimelb.edu.au/swisp/2025/08/15/art-meets-science-in-a-time-of-climate-collapse

  5. SWISP Lab goes to AUS-MUN India x JPGS

    University of Melbourne at AUSMUN 2025 | Jaipur, India  Three extraordinary days, one unforgettable collaboration for SWISP (Associate Professor Kathryn Coleman and Dr Sarah Healy, co-leads) Lab representing the University of Melbourne alongside Vandita Bhargava, Country Manager at the University of Melbourne Delhi Centre, and Dr Jeff Garmany, Associate Professor in Latin American Studies, School of […]

    blogs.unimelb.edu.au/swisp/2025/08/06/swisp-lab-goes-to-aus-mun-india-x-jpgs

  6. Why We’re in Distraction: SWISP Lab at Science Gallery Melbourne

    Join us to hack DISTRACTION.Play the game.Share your story.Remix data.Design futures.For the planet. Tonight, Distraction opens at Science Gallery Melbourne and with it, SWISP Lab begins a living lab residency unlike any other. For those of you who’ve traveled with us before, you’ll know SWISP as a space of speculative wanderings, where wonder and wickedness, […]

    blogs.unimelb.edu.au/swisp/2025/07/25/why-were-in-distraction-swisp-lab-at-science-gallery-melbourne

  7. Decolonising Data, Reimagining Relationships: Reflections from the Learning with the Land Symposium 

    June 2025 | SWISP Lab   This weekend, SWISP Lab had the honour of participating in the Learning with the Land Symposium at the University of British Columbia an international gathering grounded in land-based pedagogies and arts-based inquiry, led by Professor Emerita, Dr Rita L. Irwin, Dr Shannon Leddy and PhD Candidate, Nicole Rallis.   Rita, Sarah, […]

    blogs.unimelb.edu.au/swisp/2025/06/17/decolonising-data-reimagining-relationships-reflections-from-the-learning-with-the-land-symposium

  8. Exploring Critical Climate Futures – SWISP goes to AUS MUN INDIA

    We’re honoured to be facilitating the UNFCCC Committee at AUS MUN INDIA on August 1st 2nd and 3rd and look forward to supporting young people to think big and bold on the Paris Agreement and beyond. Want to know more about AUS MUN INDIA? AUS MUN is a curation based on IND-AUS partnership, promoting Australia […]

    blogs.unimelb.edu.au/swisp/2025/05/14/exploring-critical-climate-futures-swisp-goes-to-aus-mun-india

  9. Why we need to COP it, for today and tomorrow

    New Australian Association for Research in Education @AAREBlog

    blogs.unimelb.edu.au/swisp/2025/05/12/why-we-need-to-cop-it-for-today-and-tomorrow

  10. #blogtakeover ‘Learning with the Land’ SWISP Lab artist-in-residence Kriti Aggarwal

    “I guess, I am a climate activist now?…” 2 Nov 8:46 AM I wondered as I walked out from the grocery shop. After a three day workshop with SWISP Lab, I was walking back to my hostel when I had the sudden urge to drink something good. So, I went into the grocery shop, picked […]

    blogs.unimelb.edu.au/swisp/2024/11/09/blogtakeover-learning-with-the-land-swisp-lab-artist-in-residence-kriti-aggarwal

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