Amandine Johnson: Amandine.Johnson@unisa.edu.au
I have a research background in European history, with a doctorate from Oxford University in the history of early modern science and philosophy. I have 20 years’ experience teaching history and theory of design and qualitative research methods to designers, with a particular interest in design for sustainability. I currently serve as the Deputy Director of the China Australia Centre for Sustainable Urban Development, a partnership with Tianjin University, where I am also a guest researcher. My research currently focuses on the relationship between consumption, waste and design, and I have published widely on this theme, most recently in two co-edited books, Subverting Consumerism: Reuse in an Accelerated World (Routledge)... Read more
About me
I have a research background in European history, with a doctorate from Oxford University in the history of early modern science and philosophy. I have 20 years’ experience teaching history and theory of design and qualitative research methods to designers, with a particular interest in design for sustainability. I currently serve as the Deputy Director of the China Australia Centre for Sustainable Urban Development, a partnership with Tianjin University, where I am also a guest researcher. My research currently focuses on the relationship between consumption, waste and design, and I have published widely on this theme, most recently in two co-edited books, Subverting Consumerism: Reuse in an Accelerated World (Routledge) and Unmaking Waste in Production and Consumption: Towards a Circular Economy (Emerald). My recent sole authored book, Somebody Else’s Problem: Consumerism, Design and Sustainability (Greenleaf 2016), won gold in the Axiom Best Business Books for 2017 (sustainability). I am active as an advocate for sustainable consumption, and have spoken at many community and cultural events on themes relating to consumption, waste and design for sustainability, including WOMADELAIDE (2016) and the the Ubud Writers and Readers Festival (Bali 2017).
About me
Coordinator UniSA DESIS Lab, Desis Network for Social Innovation and Sustainability
Associate Editor of the Journal of Design Business and Society (Intellect, UK)
About me
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| 17/02/2017 |
Awarded best book (gold) in the category, Sustainability/Non-Profit/Philanthropy, Axiom Best Books in Business Awards, 2017, : http://www.axiomawards.com/77/2017-winners |
About me
Doctor of Philosophy University of Oxford
Beginning my research career in the history of early modern European science, philosophy and religion, I began teaching and researching in the history and theory of design in 1996 when I first joined the University of South Australia. Since then I have developed and taught many cross-award courses in the history and theory of design, and also developed and delivered the School’s first research methods courses for designers and architects (from 1997). I am a successful supervisor and have 6 PhD and 2 Masters by research completions, and was for a time the Research Degrees Coordinator in the Architecture and Design school.
For about eighteen months I was the Acting Director of the cross-disciplinary Zero Waste SA Research Centre for Sustainable Design and Behaviour (2014-2015) and since 2016 I have served as the Deputy Director of the China Australia Centre for Sustainable Urban Development, an exciting partnership with Tianjin University in China. I am active researcher and have published eight books, including most recently, Subverting Consumerism: Reuse in an Accelerated World and Unmaking Waste in Production and Consumption: Towards the Circular Economy. My sole authored book, Somebody Else's Problem: Consumerism, Sustainability and Design (Routledge / Greenleaf, UK), won gold in the annual Axiom Business Books awards for 2017.
My research is mainly focused on the problem of consumption and waste and the challenge to design presented by our escalating environmental crisis. I am especially interested in the 'wicked problem' presented by the growth economy, and the present failure of mainstream economics and government policy and regulation to deal effectively with the escalation of consumption over the last thirty years. I am currently involved in a number of small research projects related to this phenomenon, including one on reducing coffee cup wastes and one on alternative food hubs. I am also interested in the provisioning of so-called 'low carbon' precincts, and how to develop alternative consumption systems in these green urban... Read more
Research
Excludes commercial-in-confidence projects.
2015-2018: Adelaide Living Labs Hub: Co-Creation Methodologies for Eco-Precincts (with Jane Andrew and Aaron Davis, PhD candidate)
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Recent Research Publications
Robert Crocker, Christopher Saint, Guanyi Chen and Yindong Tong (eds), Unmaking Waste in Production and Consumption: Towards the Circular Economy (Emerald, 2018)
Robert Crocker and Keri Chiveralls (eds), Subverting Consumerism: Reuse in an Accelerated World (Routledge, 2018).
Robert Crocker, Somebody Else's Problem: Consumerism, Sustainability and Design (Greenleaf / Routledge, 2016). (awarded Gold, Sustainability and Non-Profit Category, Axiom Best Business Books of the Year, 2017).
Robert Crocker, 'The 'Good Corporation': The Uneasy Relationship between Reputation and Responsibility', in G. Muratovski (ed), Consumer Culture: Selected Essays (Intellect, UK, 2016), Chapter 8
Robert Crocker, 'Acceleration in Consumerism, Technology and Sustainability', in G. Muratovski (ed), Consumer Culture: Selected Essays (Intellect, UK, 2016): Chapter 9.
Robert Crocker, 'Unmaking Waste' in Jonathan Chapman (ed), The Routledge Handbook of Sustainable Product Design (Routledge, 2017).
Recent Conferences and Exhibitions
Convenor, Unmaking Waste conference and exhibition, City West Campus,University of South Australia, September 2018
Convenor, Futures of Waste exhibition and seminar, City West, September 2016
Convenor, Unmaking Waste conference and exhibition, City West, September 2015
Information on these events is available here
Research
My research is mainly focused on the problem of consumption and waste and the challenge to design presented by our escalating environmental crisis. I am especially interested in the 'wicked problem' presented by the growth economy, and the present failure of mainstream economics and government policy and regulation to deal effectively with the escalation of consumption over the last thirty years. I am currently involved in a number of small research projects related to this phenomenon, including one on reducing coffee cup wastes and one on alternative food hubs. I am also interested in the provisioning of so-called 'low carbon' precincts, and how to develop alternative consumption systems in these green urban environments.
I am an active advocate for sustainable consumption and waste reduction, and have been asked to speak at many events over the last few years in this space, including at Womadelaide 2015, and the Ubud writers and readers festival 2017. I regularly speak at community events on the waste crisis and what can be done about it.
I have also spoken to a number of high school groups on the above theme for 'Plan for the Planet', and on its relationship to the Sustainable Development Goals.
External engagement & recognition
| Organisation | Country |
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| Central Queensland University Appleton Institute | AUSTRALIA |
| Tianjin University | CHINA |
| University of South Australia | AUSTRALIA |
External engagement & recognition
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Associate EditorJournal of Design Business and Society, Intellect |
2018 |
3rd in publication awardsInternational Solid Waste Association |
2017 |
Associate EditorJournal of Design Business and Society, Intellect |
2017 |
Deputy DirectorChina-Australia Centre for Sustainable Urban Development |
2017 |
Gold in the sustainability categoryAxiom Best Business Books |
2017 |
Coordinator UniSA DESIS Lab, DESIS Network for Social Innovation and Sustainability. http://www.desis-network.org/
Sustainable design theory: especially the history and theory of consumer culture, behaviour change, and the relationship between design, consumerism, technological innovation and waste. The history and theory of modern design broadly understood in terms of cultural and environmental change, especially industrial design, and its changing relation to culture, technology, economy and society. Qualitative research methods in design history and theory, in industrial design, and more broadly in the environmental humanities.
Teaching & student supervision
Teaching & student supervision
Supervisions from 2010 shown
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| Communicating sustainability: The role of narrative, identity and human values | Current |
| Despair is not an option: Artistic responses to the Anthropocene | Current |
| Develop a draft of Australian site waste management protocol (AUSiWMaP) as a best practice of decision making tool in the construction industry. | Current |
| Developing a framework for waste informatics using a case study apporach in Jakata, Indonesia | Current |
| Investigation towards effects of adaption of waste and resource management practices in community organisations at work home and in other settings | Current |
| Less push, more pull: a case study in using co-creation within graphic design to influence the sustainability of designer behaviour and evolve the graphic design process to be more sustainable | Current |
| The application of co-creation as a methodology for low-carbon urban developlment | Current |
| A strategic waste management framework and tool for the development of zero waste cities | Completed |
| Desire for less: communicating sustainable consumption through creative artefacts by and for children | Completed |
| Developing a co-design model through the production of education materials in the health environment | Completed |
| 'Dresses are annoying. I like to design them myself': A post-phenomenological exploration of everyday artefacts | Completed |
| In pursuit of the marvellous: exploring the role of memory in the surrealism of Czech emigre Dusan Marek (1926-1993) | Completed |
| Nintendo, Japan and longing: videogames embodying and communicating cultural desires | Completed |
| Such endless pleasure: the illustrated private press books of Christine Margaret MacGregor | Completed |
| Visual and cultural mutations of the miraculous image : the role of religious pareidolia in shrine formation | Completed |
