Challenging Capabilities: The Value of Design from Ntaria

Nicola St John is a fifth-generation colonial settler from Australia, and a communication design researcher and educator. She is a Senior Lecturer in communication design in the School of Design at RMIT University. Her research focuses on fostering collaborations between First Nations creatives, community schools, design organizations, and tertiary institutions to encourage knowledge transfer, intercultural collaboration, participatory methodologies, and student belonging.