Embodied Design (as) Encounters: Intersecting Practice and Theory with Route Setting for Indoor Climbing (TBC)
This forthcoming book chapter develops material from chapter four of my PhD, Bodies(in)Form, and follows my contribution to the Designing for Bodies conference.
Bodies (In)form: Reconceptualising Embodied Design as Encounters (2026)
This practice-based PhD responds to a growing shift in experience design towards approaches that engage bodies—both designers’ and participants’—as central to design practice. Drawing on feminist post-phenomenology, particularly the work of Gail Weiss and Sara Ahmed, the research proposes encounters as a strong concept that articulates embodiment as relational, intercorporeal, and situated.
Design (as) Encounters (2025)
This paper presents early findings from my practice-based PhD, Bodies (in)Form, which investigates routesetting as an under-researched embodied practice.
Designing Performer Training: Digital Encounters with Things and People (2019)
This article, which appeared in Theatre, Dance and Performance Training, Volume 10, Issue 2 (2019), investigates how digital technologies can be used to enhance the relational aspects of performer training.