Events
School of BioSciences at the University of Melbourne
Featured events
Onemda Yarning: Pride Month with Carolyn Gillespie
Jun
26
11:00am
Public Lecture
Please join Onemda and Carolyn Gillespie.
Carolyn is passionate about addressing the health, social and structural inequities that impact on LGBTIQ+ people’s capacity to fully participate in the communities in which they live, love, learn and play. She is regularly sought out as an LGBTIQ+ family/sexual violence, health, and mental health subject matter expert and she is an active advocate for strategic and systemic change that strengthens the health and wellbeing of the entire LGBTIQ+ community. Carolyn celebrates queer joy as an intentional act and firmly believes in the power of lived experience and peer expertise as the answer to humanising our world.
Register to attend by email to: onemda-info@unimelb.edu.au
Flourishing by design (FxD): engineering a flourishing approach to design research & cultivating a community of practice to realise that vision
Jun
27
3:00pm - 4:00pm
Seminar or Forum
This talk will present Dr. Mikus’ doctoral research, which examined how one might design for Aristotle’s concept of eudaimonia (i.e. optimal health and wellbeing, being one’s best self, flourishing) applying creative methods and codesign virtually within an HBI domain, and her follow-on work since completing her PhD in 2023.
Dr. Mikus continues to explore eudaimonia or flourishing by design (fxd) across geographies, typologies, and demographics for research and impact through her adjunct researcher roles and Eudae Group advisory work, respectively, and for pro-bono knowledge-sharing and community connection in her role as the Founder and Lead of the Flourishing by Design (or FxD) special interest group within Harvard’s Human Flourishing Network.
Dr. Mikus will present this work considering two flourishing design-relevant perspectives:
1) her (lowercase) fxd-related doctoral research and the work she does today in addition to
2) the (uppercase) FxD collective of 200+ researchers and practitioners that she leads to activate health and wellbeing science (also known as flourishing scholarship) and to catalyse community with intention and by design.
