Healing cultures: designing regenerative systems

Associate Professor Ricarda Bigolin is a practice-based researcher, educator and designer. Ricarda’s research, teaching and design practice is recognised internationally with ongoing collaborations in research and education with some of the best Fashion, Design and Art Universities in the world. She is regarded as one of the establishing practitioners in the niche fields of critical and expanded fashion practice. Their practice research has has won international awards and acquisitive prizes in museums internationally and their work is shown regularly leading art and design museums, galleries, publications and universities globally. to better reflect relationships between design, diversity and sustainability.

Erica McCalman (she/her) is a creative director, producer, strategist, facilitator and speaker based in Melbourne. She works with organisations, artists and individuals doing ambitious, values-driven work.

She is a Ballardong Noongar woman with Irish Convict, Cornish and Scottish heritage, and is neurodivergent. She moves through the world as someone who has always lived at several intersections at once, in the liminal spaces between cultures, ways of knowing and ways of being.

Tishiko King is a proud Kulkalaig woman from the Island of Masig and is a Ocean & Climate Advocate. Tish is the founder of Just Futures Collab, Torres Strait Island-led giving circle activating resources for climate justice.

Tish is a marine biologist and a dedicated climate justice advocate committed to addressing the interconnected crises of environmental degradation, gender and economic inequality. Grounded in the wisdom and frontline leadership of Torres Strait Island culture, Tish believes that redistributing wealth is essential to decolonising climate solutions in order for systemic change that respects the ocean, culture, and community.