Jodi Newcombe

MSc (Natural Resource and Environmental Economics) University College London, BSc (Hons) (Chemical Engineering) Sydney

Jodi is a PhD student at QUT and director of Carbon Arts, an organisation generating creative models for engaging society in imagining and shaping a more sustainable future. Jodi trained as an engineer (BChE, University of Sydney) and environmental economist (MSc, University College London). After a 15 year consultancy career in natural resource management to public and private sector clients in Europe and Australia, Jodi set up Carbon Arts to bring a stronger creative voice to these challenges.

She is currently developing a number of significant public artworks in partnership with leading artists and arts organisations, developers and government that seek to influence the public’s stewardship of the environment. Use of real-time data, sensing technology and social media are key features of this work. Together these features create a new legibility for the often invisible forces of nature and generate playful and rewarding experiences to encourage sustainable behaviours.

Her PhD, entitled Designing interfaces between nature, the public and policy, is a practice-led research project examining the work of Carbon Arts to bring multi-sector and multi-disciplinary stakeholders together with artists and through arts projects to address wicked problems.

Follow Jodi on twitter: @carbon_arts. Her website is at http://www.carbonarts.org

Supervisors

• Dr Gavin Sade (Principal)
• Dr Christine Satchell (Associate)
• Assoc. Prof.  Marcus Foth (Associate)