Human Centred Design Thinking - Selena Griffith

Selena Griffith, Senior Lecturer in the School of Design Studies at UNSW Art & Design gave a presentation to rCITI and Civil Engineering on "Human Centre Design Thinking" on Friday 23 October 2015.  Selina was a very engaging speaker and provided an interactive segment to include attendees.  

Selena Griffith is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Design Studies at UNSW Art & Design where she coordinates courses in Design Management and Practice, Identity, Branding, Sustainability, Whole Systems Design and Cross Disciplinary Collaboration from Innovation. Originally qualifying for a Bachelor of Industrial Design, Honours, Selena has worked as a Design Manager in a variety of contexts from in house to international consultancy and as a freelance designer with her own consultancy.

Selena Griffith research areas are in Design Management, Sustainability, Collaboration, Social Innovation, Futures and Education. Her interest in creating positive futures through transformative design thinking as led her to produce tools and methods to assist with the development of innovation, collaboration and design thinking skills. Selena is very interested in how organisations can most effectively utilise design thinking to deliver more sustainable products and services. Co-creation and nexus - where people from different backgrounds and professions come together in collaborations that result in innovation or new perceptions has fascinates Griffith and she not only researches in this area but has also developed courses to teach the skills needed to run multidisciplinary creative collaborations.

Griffith was awarded a Global Future Leaders Award from the World Human Resources Development Congress in 2011 and has been accepted into the highly competitive Buckminster Fuller Institute's Catalyst Program for her work on The Island Innovation Lab.