Areli Avendano Franco

RMIT University | RMIT · School of Design

Data visualisations from physical self-trackers have been studied as persuasive tools for behaviour change by encouraging reflection and action. This paper presents the preliminary findings of a longitudinal nine-week study among 30 households in Australia (104 participants with a control group) using data visualisations from physical self-trackers...

This paper grapples with complicities of decolonising as we attempt to unsettle Dominant conventions in Design, which ossify through repetition, such as reoccurring conferences. Such conventions are troubled through questions around labour, privilege and ethics of being present and situated when we come together to share our practices on unceded In...

Globally, glass is now a common choice for packaging products that are distributed to market. In Australia, over 1.3 million tons of packaging glass is consumed per annum. Each year only around 40% of the used glass in this pool is recovered nationally via a complex system of collection, sorting and re-processing. Thus there is a significant opport...

In the aftermath of a natural disaster, post-disaster management (PDM) stakeholders tackle both the planning for and delivery of the subsequent recovery phase to reinstate permanent, safe and sustainable livelihoods to affected communities. Such complex scenarios demand particular capabilities from a range of knowledge fields. Access to all types o...