Bridgette is a professional futurist and pracademic who’s curious about post-growth innovation and designing in crisis. 

She teaches strategic foresight, innovation and design at Swinburne University where her work considers the (un)intended consequences of change. 

Bridgette has worked on projects intersecting people, technology and systems  including collaborating with Changeist and IWDA to develop a feminist futuring framework, public participatory futures installations for Melbourne Knowledge Week and Hong Kong Business of Design Week, VR and AR wearables for people with early-onset dementia, and exploring ways to use technology and new materials to support sexual and reproductive health. 

Bridgette’s research focus is how a lack of prospective thinking in design contributes to an ongoing cycle connected to consumer culture and material consumption that is broadly destructive and contributing to collapse of life-critical global systems. 

Bridgette asks lots of questions, doesn’t play golf, and enjoys more than the odd glass of wine.