Dr Viveka Turnbull Hocking
Areas of expertise
- Design Innovation 120302
- Design Practice And Management 1203
- Urban And Regional Planning 1205
- Urban And Regional Studies (Excl. Planning) 160404
- Environmental Science And Management 0502
Research interests
- Design for Cross-Species Cohabitation - Post-Anthropocentric, More-than-Human
- Design for Social Innovation and Sustainability
- Design-led Approaches to Research
- Multi-Species Urban Entanglements
Biography
Dr Viveka Turnbull Hocking’s work looks at design-led approaches to research. Her research has included design for social innovation and sustainability as well as design for cross-species cohabitation. Her design-led approach to research engages with cross-disciplinary conversations and collaborations through the area of design and the built environment. She researches through the Fenner School of Environment and Society at the Australian National University and teaches in the School of Design and Architecture at the University of Canberra.
Researcher's projects
1st Untaming the Urban Symposium 2016: From post-anthropocentric design to urban ecologies, see http://untaming-the-urban.tumblr.com/
2nd Untaming the Urban Symposium 2018: Cross-disciplinary conversation on multi-species urban entanglements, see https://untamingurban.org
Untaming the Urban - Book project
Untaming Aesthetics: Cross-species design consideration for the built environment, see http://apo.org.au/node/178456
Publications
- Hocking, V, Brown, V & Harris, J 2016, 'Tackling Wicked Problems through Collective Design', Intelligent Buildings International, vol. 8, no. 1, pp. 24-36pp.
- Hocking, V & MacKenzie, A 2016, 'A Design-Led Approach for Enabling Collective Imagining of Sustainable Urban Futures', in Leshinsky, R., Legacy, C. (ed.), Instruments of Planning: Tensions and Challenges for More Equitable and Sustainable Cities, Routledge, USA, pp. 105-116.
- Hocking, V 2015, 'Home Habitat Habitus: Design for cross-species cohabitation', State of Australian Cities Conference 2015, ed. Paul Burton and Heather Shearer, Griffith University, Brisbane, Australia, pp. 12pp.
- Hocking, V 2013, 'The Wicked Muse: Partnering Creative Practice, Local Communities and Sustainability', State of Australian Cities Conference 2013, ed. Kristian Ruming, Bill Randolph and Nicole Gurran, State of Australian Cities, Sydney, pp. 1-10.
- Hocking, V 2011, 'Designing Sustainable Urban Futures: Presenting a Design-led methodology for Sustainability Research', State of Australian Cities: National Conference 2011, State of Australian Cities, Melbourne Australia, pp. 1-12.
- Hocking, V 2011, 'An Ecology for Design: From the Natural, Through the Artificial, To the Un-Natural', in Graham, L. (ed.), Sustainability Research by Designers: An Anthology, Common Ground Publishing, USA, pp. 129-143.
- Hocking, V 2010, 'Designerly Ways of Knowing: What Does Design Have to Offer?', in Valerie Brown, John Harris, Jacqueline Russell (ed.), Tackling Wicked Problems: Through the Transdisciplinary Imagination, Earthscan Publications Ltd, London, UK and Washington DC, USA, pp. 242-250.
- Hocking, V 2009, 'Design with a thousand faces: Design-led methods for the social science research community', International Journal of Interdisciplinary Social Science, vol. 4, no. 3, pp. 1-16.
- Hocking, V 2009, 'Enabling Design for Sustainable Futures: Design-led research and research-led design', Cumulus conference 2009, Cumulus conference 2009, Melbourne, Australia.
- Hocking, V 2009, 'A Design Approach to Thesis Writing: finding the style, structure and context in design', Art Media Design Writing Intersections Conference, ed. Melles, G., Swinburne University of Technology , Melbourne, Australia, pp. 305-314.
- Hocking, V 2009, 'An Ecology for Design: From the Natural, Through the Artificial, To the Un-Natural', Design Principles and Practices, vol. 3, no. 1, pp. 41-54.
- Hocking, V 2008, 'Co-Designing a Sustainable Culture of Life: designing research methods for sustainable change', Changing the Change Design, Visions, Proposals and Tools, ed. Cipolla, C., Peruccio, P.P., Allemandi Conference Press, Italy.
- Hocking, V 2008, 'Designing a Travel Guide to the Un-Natural World: Exploring a Design-led Methodology', Undisciplined a Design Research Society Conference, ed. David Durling, Chris Rust, Lin-Lin Chen, Philippa Ashton and Ken Friedman, Sheffield Hallam University, UK, pp. 196/1-14.
- Hocking, V 2007, 'An UnNatural World: Designer as Tourist', The 7th International Conference of the European Academy of Design, Izmir University of Economics, Turkey.