Keynotes, invited talks, conference papers, and interviews and conversations.
Invited keynote to the ULI India Place Innovation Forum, 28 September 2023, on the principles behind purpose-driven placemaking and what they mean for future cities. Full text published by Studio ESEM.
Invited keynote, 16 June 2022.
Invited keynote, 30 May 2019.
Invited keynote, February 2017.
Invited keynote, June 2016.
Invited keynote, July 2016.
Invited keynote, September 2012.
Invited keynote, 11 August 2011.
Invited keynote, August 2010.
Invited talk on the panel "Storying care and justice in public space", following the keynote by Prof Catalina Ortiz (UCL).
REMIX Summit Sydney, 12–13 June 2025, Australian National Maritime Museum and Luna Park.
Placemaking Summit.
Held 14 May 2024 alongside the Australian Architecture Conference. Curated by Sarah Barns and Professor Naomi Stead in support of the Planetary Civics initiative, a collaboration between RMIT’s College of Design and Social Context and Dark Matter Labs.
Part of the Planetary Civics In Conversation series. Convened and hosted by Sarah Barns. Braidotti's work is a stated influence on Superorganism: Listening to the Anthropocene.
Reflections on the co-creation of Wakulda, the semi-permanent storytelling installation on the historic Courthouse, Port Macquarie (2021–2025), and the story-weaving framework Aunty Rhonda established for reconciliation and healing.
On creating river biographies, and how storytelling approaches can help shape the transformation of river cities and regions. With RMIT Vietnam practitioners and researchers Julia Gaimster, Andrew Stiff, Oliver Vodeb and Catherine Earl. The last of the 2023 Planetary Civics conversations, supported by RMIT College of Design and Social Context, RMIT University Vietnam and the RMIT Centre for Urban Research. Convened and hosted by Sarah Barns.
August 2023. The first of a four-part series of curated conversations in support of the Planetary Civics initiative, with the Dark Matter Labs founder, ranging across self, material culture, technology, public and private, extinction and AI. Convened and hosted by Sarah Barns.
Invited presentation, November 2019.
Invited presentation, June 2017.
Invited speaker, January 2015.
May 2015.
Invited speaker, October 2015.
This presentation introduces the agentic-deliberative praxis of civic interplay as a contribution to the emerging field of digital statecraft.
Human–Computer Interaction (HCI) and its surrounding areas, such as Human-Building Interaction (HBI), and Media Architecture have long been shaped by narratives of progress, innovation, and problem-solving, often following the “heroic arc” of Joseph Campbell’s monomyth. While productive, these narratives tend to marginalize practices of maintenance, repair, and care, as well as the more-than-human relations through which sociotechnical systems persist. This full-day workshop invites participants to explore alternative narrative forms for HCI.
Concurrent session presentation, 13 March 2025.
24–25 November 2021.
April 2019.
April 2019.
5 May 2017.
April 2016.
December 2016.
October 2015.
June 2015.
September 2014.
April 2014.
Refereed conference paper, 3–6 July 2011.
April 2011.
September 2010.
On the ABC's first location-based service, built from the broadcaster's television and radio archives, presented to the British Library's conference on opening sound collections, 20–21 March 2009.
From the doctoral research, the ABC's first foray into location-based services, built from ambient sound recordings of events and locations no longer visible. An archaeology of Sydney's invisible topography, which locates its recorded action rather than surviving artefact.
On whether we have a strong sense of infrastructural civics at all, the historical resonances between digital communication and participatory civics, and the difficulty of active citizenship at a planetary scale.
In conversation with Dr Tim Williams and Grimshaw's Head of Design Technology, Andy Watts. The opening episode of the series.
On early influences and the thinking behind an interdisciplinary practice sitting across academic research, public art and creative practice, and policy and strategy. Published 22 August 2022.
On how STORYBOX came to Parramatta Square, from the partnership with the ABC and the City of Parramatta to the program launched in October 2020.
ABC announcement of the launch of Sydney Sidetracks, quoting Sarah Barns as concept developer, researcher and content producer.
Nothing of that kind here yet.