Simone Taffe

Some personal news (for you)

My mentor and @Swinburne design professor Nicki Wragg has written a great piece on how design education is adapting in the #Coronavirus lockdown. Have a read! Reconceptualising hands-on design theeducatoronline.com/he/news/opinio…

awww shucks... @ScottMorrisonMP these fires are unprecedented... no one could have foreseen this. Oh also #climateVariability #ClimateDenial #AustraliaBurns

Fridays for future. The school strike continues! #climatestrike #klimatstrejk #FridaysForFuture

I was Victoria’s Environment Minister in 2005 when a fire burnt much of Wilsons Promontory. The fire was the result of a fuel reduction burn which ESCAPED ten days after initial ignition as a result of warm and windy weather. The risks are REAL.

My partner just showed me this free @windyforecast app that visualises nitrogen dioxide (air qual) levels throughout the week — like weather patterns. It is mesmerising and looks like a dystopian version of van Gogh’s, The Starry Night. 😷 #AustraliaBurns

Australia, your country is burning – dangerous climate change is here with you now #Echobox=1577906549" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

Active fires 🔥 in Australia. At what point are we going to listen to our own scientists and the Bureau of Meteorology and admit this is climate change? When the entire land mass is covered?

Still standing. #lookinglikeatruesurvivor #australiafires #eucalyptus #gumtrees #ozplants #lookingupthroughtrees

Congratulations to Dr Jane Connory @invisibleinaus on the successful conferral of her Doctorate! Titled The View from Here, it explores the causes of invisibility for women in Australian graphic design and advocates for their equity & autonomy. afFEMation.com #Swinburne

Jeni Paay on the importance of codesign and seamless technology for creating community in architectural spaces and places at the CXI workshop

The second WATTLE women in leadership program is happening at Waurn Ponds this week! Welcome to all of the women from participating universities: @Swinburne @latrobe @Deakin @RMIT @VC_ANU @ANUmedia @Griffith_Uni @CurtinUni @MurdochUni

Kicking off the meeting with the @Swinburne Design Factory “power hour”. Thanks to the Swinburne Innovation Precinct for sponsoring this session!

Visual summary of the @WAttle program for professional university staff

Prof Michael Leiter @Deakin talks to @WattleProgram on #burnout & managing #stress Three dimensions of burnout: 1. Exhaustion = overextended + 2. Cynicism = disengaged + 3. Inefficacy = ineffective It's a three part syndrome... #wattleprogram #Leadership #workload

It's always fun working with the students and teachers @SwinburneDesign and participating in their #codesign activities to help @JeanHailes in developing solutions to improving consumer engagement and health literacy. Thanks @DrSimoneTaffe to you and your team! #designthinking

Swinburne and ACMI women are changing the face of media technology swinburne.edu.au/news/latest-ne…

Here are the happy WATTLE participants. What a great week we had! Special thanks to all the speakers, and our partner universities for your support. @Swinburne @RMIT @latrobe @ourANU @Deakin @Griffith_Uni @CurtinUni