Monica Regalado
Filipino-Australian design researcher, anthropologist, and technologist. Sometimes other things.
Welcome to my web page :))
Now
- Writing a thesis on time and making @ University of Sydney, Department of Anthropology.
- Casual academic, teaching undergraduate and postgraduate units @ University of Sydney's Design School. Em tech, design futures, design strategy.
- Organising events, documenting community opportunities and knowledge, communing, and doing computer things @ Australian Network of Student Anthropologists.
- Enjoying my first "sabbatical" in over a decade;
- writing silly music reviews,
- going for long walks,
- working on some manuscripts,
- helping a friend with a nail business,
- doubled my coffee intake (for leisure),
- breathing ...
Before
- Principal & lead design researcher on Affinity, image-making app that combines vector, raster, and layout (omg) <3 My favourite project! Check it out and also read about some of the artists we worked with and were a big part of my fieldwork!
- Did design research for a bunch of other places including Canva, Google Maps, and Centre for Inclusive Design (fka Media Access Australia).
- Finished a degree in design theory, human-computer interaction, creative computing @ University of Sydney. TA'd a bit then too -- interaction design & qualitative research for design.
- Discovered anthropology !!
I am on are.na.
Unfortunately, I'm also on Linkedin.
Sometimes I am also on campus and down to chat about anthro, design, technology et al....researchermonica [at] gmail [dot] com.
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