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. SWISP Lab Residency: Dr Angela Molloy Murphy

    Extending the HAK.io: Remixing a SWISP inspired provocation for Early Childhood Inquiry and Project Learning Inspired by the SWISP Lab x SGB Carbon Mediator workshop in India recently reflected on in a SWISP Lab blog post, I came to my Inquiry and Project Learning workshop the following day and invited my Unimelb MTeach students to remix and extend the […]

    blogs.unimelb.edu.au/swisp/2023/10/30/swisp-lab-residency-dr-angela-molloy-murphy

  2. Carbon mediators x SWISP lab’s HAK.io-let’s play.

    Working with Science Gallery ignites creativity and discovery where science and art collide. SWISP Lab was in residence in Bengaluru in 2023 with the Carbon Mediators. Together we hacked the Anthropocene through play and co-creation to bring science, art, technology and design together in connective, participatory, and speculative ways. Why Science Gallery and the Mediators? […]

    blogs.unimelb.edu.au/swisp/2023/10/27/carbon-mediators-x-swisp-labs-hak-io-lets-play

  3. SWISP Lab x Science Gallery Bengaluru Carbon Mediators: where is art/science happening?

    Co-designed by Carbon Mediators x SWISP Lab. HAK.io method 4 Divide into 2 groups so we can go for a walk as a scicurious observer. Lets’ walk, listen, learn, look and wonder. Group 1 Where is science happening? Group 2 Where is art happening? HAK.io method 7 Okay go! in your zine draw what you […]

    blogs.unimelb.edu.au/swisp/2023/10/27/swisp-lab-x-science-gallery-bengaluru-carbon-mediators-where-is-art-science-happening

  4. SWISP Lab x Science Gallery Bengaluru Carbon Mediators: Playing HAK.io – scicurious sensory walk with clay on site at SGB.

    Co-designed by Carbon Mediators x SWISP Lab.   HAK.io method 4 As we walk through the gallery, we will explore the sensory delights of clay* in our hands and transform a shapeless mound into a unique response. Hand a ball of clay to young people when they enter the gallery entrance. They have the freedom […]

    blogs.unimelb.edu.au/swisp/2023/10/26/swisp-lab-x-science-gallery-bengaluru-carbon-mediators-scicurious-sensory-walk-with-clay-on-site-at-sgb

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

    Co-designed by Carbon Mediators X SWISP Lab. Step 1 Assemble in a safe place such as a park, playground or creative community space. Discussion: What is carbon?  Think-Pair-Square: 5-7 minutes or activity of the day (TBD) Also known as: turn and talk, Think-Pair-Square. Think-Pair-Share involves people thinking independently about a prompt or problem, pairing up and […]

    blogs.unimelb.edu.au/swisp/2023/10/24/swisp-lab-x-science-gallery-bengaluru-carbon-mediators-carbon-in-the-anthropocene-currere

  6. SWISP loves to Hack

    HAK.io SGM: SCIENCE GALLERY HACKING FESTIVAL 2023  27- 28 September 2023, Science Gallery Black Box Theatre  Can data (big data and small) be affirmatively thought of as playthings (or playmates) to inspire imaginative thinking within research? (Playmates for SWISP Lab include SentiOne, Mozilla Hubs, Graph Neo4j). HAK 1 SWISP Lab has been working with big […]

    blogs.unimelb.edu.au/swisp/2023/09/28/swisp-loves-to-hack

  7. HAK.io Workshop 4: Digital dispositions for learning with the land

    Kate Coleman and Sarah Healy What kind of curriculum/s do we need for our futures? This culminating workshop with the Science Gallery Bengaluru Carbon Mediators was set in the workshop calendar to co-design a climate curriculum for the upcoming show, Carbon at SGB. SWISP is doing this because climate change is a threat to human well-being and […]

    blogs.unimelb.edu.au/swisp/2023/08/09/hak-io-workshop-4-digital-dispositions-for-learning-with-the-land

  8. HAK.io workshop 3: playing with paper and stories

    Kate Coleman and Sarah Healy HAK.io Workshop 3 with Science Gallery Bengaluru Carbon mediators began with a mediative SF (Speculative Fabulation) called no longer…not yet, by writer-in-residence, Jessica Laraine Williams. Jess created the SF as a participatory eco-narrative for the Climate, Art and Digital Activism Festival of ideas 2022. The intention of no longer…not yet was to […]

    blogs.unimelb.edu.au/swisp/2023/08/08/hak-io-workshop-3-playing-with-paper-and-stories

  9. HAK.io Workshop 2: your climate story

    Kate Coleman and Sarah Healy In this SWISPy blog we show and tell the story of HAK.io workshop 2 at Science Gallery Bengaluru. Our workshops are happening as Carbon Mediators prepare for the exhibition opening later in 2023. The upcoming exhibition-season CARBON asks: How do we understand carbon beyond the catch phrases and contradictions? Why does it […]

    blogs.unimelb.edu.au/swisp/2023/08/04/hak-io-workshop-2-your-climate-story

  10. HAK.io: becoming scicurious together

    Kate Coleman and Sarah Healy This 3 hour SWISP Lab x SGB Carbon Mediator workshop explored data in the middles; working as artists, scientists, re-searchers, inquirers, practitioners, makers, creators, playmakers and curators in a Science Gallery Network Mediator laboratory. Working within our enabling constraints of space and time, we walked, data collected, carefully coded, analysed […]

    blogs.unimelb.edu.au/swisp/2023/08/01/hak-io-becoming-scicurious-together

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