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. #blogtakeover SWISP Lab x University of Melbourne Interns Yi Guo and Peiyi Jin

    Deeply inspired by the transformative power of SWISP Lab hackathons as a chance to work on big complex problems and by the potential of personal storytelling as a way for us to be present to each other (Adams et al, 2014, p.5), Peiyi and Yi embarked on a mini-hack adventure at the University of Melbourne. […]

    blogs.unimelb.edu.au/swisp/2024/07/12/blogtakeover-swisp-lab-x-university-of-melbourne-interns-yi-guo-and-peiyi-jin

  2. SWISP Lab have 2 hackathons coming up in August. 

    More Than Just Sustainability – let’s hack the Anthropocene to find the #climate stories between #art and #science! SWISP Lab is facilitating 2 #hackathons for young people (aged 14-28 years old) in partnership with Science Gallery Melbourne in National Science Week. Hack #1 is on August 10 and hack #2 is on August 17. Are you aged 14-28 years old? Register for […]

    blogs.unimelb.edu.au/swisp/2024/07/10/swisp-lab-have-2-hackathons-coming-up-in-august

  3. SWISP Lab x Teachers in Radical Residency: Master of Teaching, Work Integrated Learning (June, 2024)

    Over the last two weeks SWISP Lab have had three excellent teacher candidates from the Faculty of Education in radical residency for their WIL Capstone projects. What is WIL you ask? Work Integrated Learning (WIL) is an umbrella term used to describe a variety of learning experiences which integrate academic theory with authentic real-world work experiences. […]

    blogs.unimelb.edu.au/swisp/2024/06/28/swisp-lab-x-teachers-in-radical-residency-master-of-teaching-work-integrated-learning-june-2024

  4. What have SWISP Lab been up to?

    A few months ago SWISP lab facilitated Mediator Hacks in partnership with Science Gallery Mediators in Melbourne and Atlanta making it number three (Bengaluru, Atlanta, Melbourne) across the Science Gallery International network. See Hacking the Anthropocene: cross-network research and pedagogy for climate action for more information. Science Gallery Atlanta Mediator Hack co-design workshop, 2024 So […]

    blogs.unimelb.edu.au/swisp/2024/06/07/what-have-swisp-lab-been-up-to

  5. Hacking the Anthropocene: Climate stories between art and science in Bengaluru

    SWISP Lab and Science Gallery Bengaluru (SGB) in partnership with the University of Melbourne facilitated two workshops at Infosys Science Foundation to hack living in Anthropocene. We invited young people aged 15-28 years old to join us at the intersection of creative and scientific inquiry and explore the ways that we become scicurious together in […]

    blogs.unimelb.edu.au/swisp/2023/12/22/hacking-the-anthropocene-climate-stories-between-art-and-science-in-bengaluru

  6. SWISPy resident education internships

    In 2023 SWISP Lab was lucky to have two Master of Teaching, Faculty of Education internships take up residency in SWISP lab as part of their Capstone WIL (work integrated learning experience). Work-integrated learning is a form of curricular experiential education that formally integrates academic studies with quality learning experiences within a workplace or practice setting […]

    blogs.unimelb.edu.au/swisp/2023/12/22/swispy-resident-education-internships

  7. HAK.io Exhibit at COP28 UAE 11 December, 2023

    UN Climate Change News, 13 December 2023 – The United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP28) closed with an agreement that signals the “beginning of the end” of the fossil fuel era by laying the ground for a swift, just and equitable transition, underpinned by deep emissions cuts and scaled-up finance. Credit: Kiara Worth | UN Climate […]

    blogs.unimelb.edu.au/swisp/2023/12/22/hak-io-exhibit-at-cop28-uae-11-december-2023

  8. SWISP Lab x Emory University Side Event at COP28UAE

    Youth Actions for Anthropogenic Times Date and Time: Sat, 09 Dec 2023, 13:15-14:45 Location: Blue Zone, Room: SE Room 5 In this UNFCCC COP28 Side-Event: Youth Voices for Climate Action we highlighted youth working in different ways to mitigate and adapt to climate change with our partners. Our panel included youth working on climate research, art, […]

    blogs.unimelb.edu.au/swisp/2023/12/09/today-at-cop28

  9. SWISP Lab x Science Gallery Bengaluru Carbon Mediators: Playing HAK.io ‘off beat’

    Co-designed by Carbon Mediators X SWISP Lab. Step 1 Assemble Carbon icebreaker: word prompt generation – what are the uses of Carbon in daily life? (5 mins of activity). Everyone generates word in response to ‘what are the uses of Carbon in daily life?‘ and writes it on a post-it-note. What if the group gets […]

    blogs.unimelb.edu.au/swisp/2023/11/27/swisp-lab-x-science-gallery-bengaluru-carbon-mediators-off-beat-currere

  10. SWISP Lab x Practitioner Residency

    SWISP lab works across speculative design, education, data, radical pedagogies, digital activisms, Anthropogenic inquiry and media arts residencies in various virtual and physical settings; sometimes in onsite residencies in museums and studios such as Science Gallery, other times in residencies located inside SWISP Lab such as Jennifer Thy and Yvette Walker. With the support of […]

    blogs.unimelb.edu.au/swisp/2023/11/02/swisp-lab-x-practitioner-residency

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