Nan O'Sullivan

Nan is the founder and lead researcher in the post graduate Research Hub, the Social Lab. Incentivised to challenge and grow design's capacity to contribute to positive change, Nan's research seeks to navigate and recalibrate design and its capacity to lead positive social and environmental impact. Her work promotes indigenous knowledge as a guiding light to positive change and aligns with the emergent design provocation, Transition Design, as a pathway to enable this. Nan often speaks at international conferences, universities, and institutes about the need to make space in our curriculums for Indigenous wisdom and diverse ways of seeing, doing and being. She specifically highlights the value of tikanga Māori, (Māori values and protocols), mātauranga Māori (Māori knowledge) and place-based knowledge to the design of sustainable and sustaining futures. https://www.wgtn.ac.nz/design-innovation/research/research-groups/social-design-lab. https://victoria.academia.edu/NanOSullivan