Conference Presentations by Cymbeline Buhler
Advancing Cohesive Communities Conference , 2020
Picture Justice Australia is a pilot research study that aims to creatively engage young people i... more Picture Justice Australia is a pilot research study that aims to creatively engage young people in impactful civic participation in their local community. In July 2019, 10 secondary and tertiary students participated in an intensive five-day workshop, during which they developed content for an exhibition that expressed their perspectives on the theme of ‘community, citizenry and processes of democracy’. In this paper, we discuss the Picture Justice Australia pedagogical model informing the workshop series, with a particular focus on how the collaboration of Design Thinking with Civics and Citizenship education supported the participants to develop and utilise empathy, uniting political knowledge with problem-solving skills to encourage what we are calling critical creativity.
The findings of this paper drill down specifically to focus on the impact that Design Thinking and civic education had on the participants’ confidence to engage in their communities. More specifically, we analyse and connect a range of data that helps to build a picture of this impact, including the content of the creative works by participants, survey responses, media reports and observational diaries kept by the researchers.
Papers by Cymbeline Buhler
Design and Culture, Feb 7, 2021
Royal Commission into Aged Care Quality and Safety, 2021
The population of Australia is significantly increasing and projected to further rise over the co... more The population of Australia is significantly increasing and projected to further rise over the coming years (Caughey et al. 2020). As this grows, so does the proportion of elders (people aged 65 years and over). Already in 2012, one in seven Australians was ‘old’ and this ratio is estimated to rise to one in four by 2050 (Negin et al. 2016). According to the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs, discrimination against elders takes many forms which impact and compound upon each other. Our concern is stigma experienced by elders and the associated risks of isolation, particularly in assisted living situations such as aged care homes. Media attention on transmission and fatalities in aged care, in the absence of a strengths-based discourse, highlights elders’ vulnerabilities, painting them as frail and at-risk. This exacerbates stigma that already surrounds ageing, heightening factors such as exclusion and loneliness that threaten wellbeing and increase premature mortality (Blunden et al. 2019; Kobayashi, Cloutier-Fisher and Roth 2009; Miyawaki 2015; UNDESA 2020). In response to the COVID-19 crisis in aged care, we propose ‘Side by Side’, an initiative led by a consortium of community and professional stakeholders. ‘Side by Side’ aims to boost cross-generational participation in elders’ lives, activate local and collective support structures, and position elders as community assets. Highlighting the need for older generations to maintain agency in how their support needs are met, this submission encourages active community participation in elders’ support systems. We aim for this initiative to boost community connection with a long-range goal of destigmatising age. Importantly, these connections could be particularly beneficial in activating localised support for older generations in peri and post emergencies, such as pandemics and weather extremes
Humboldt Journal of Social Relations
The world took a beating from COVID-19, with no nation spared. Australia's response to the pandem... more The world took a beating from COVID-19, with no nation spared. Australia's response to the pandemic has been recognized as particularly successful, with the comparatively small total of COVID-19 related fatalities. However, these achievements in controlling the virus and keeping the economy buoyant are contrasted by significant failures, particularly the Federal and state governments' inability to contain the outbreak within the aged care sector. This commentary forms an understanding of the COVID-19 outbreak in Australia's aged care sector, drawing from articles published in the 'The Australian' newspaper. We focus on priorities, responses and management at different levels, observing subsequent impacts, not only on elders, but also on workers and the wider community. Our findings indicate that neglect of elders is a pre-existing cultural and social tendency that was exacerbated and also made visible through this pandemic. The media articles particularly vilified what they saw to be government inaction, failing to address issues of safety and regulation that already plagued the aged care sector prior to the pandemic, all of which were intensified by COVID-19.
The concept of multiple-conclusion consequence relation from [8] and [7] is considered. The closu... more The concept of multiple-conclusion consequence relation from [8] and [7] is considered. The closure operation C assigning to any binary relation r (defined on the power set of a set of all formulas of a given language) the least multipleconclusion consequence relation containing r, is defined on the grounds of a natural Galois connection. It is shown that the very closure C is an isomorphism from the power set algebra of a simple binary relation to the Boolean algebra of all multiple-conclusion consequence relations.
Picture Justice Australia is a pilot research study that aims to creatively engage young people i... more Picture Justice Australia is a pilot research study that aims to creatively engage young people in impactful civic participation in their local community. In July 2019, 10 secondary and tertiary students participated in an intensive five-day workshop, during which they developed content for an exhibition that expressed their perspectives on the theme of ‘community, citizenry and processes of democracy’. In this paper, we discuss the Picture Justice Australia pedagogical model informing the workshop series, with a particular focus on how the collaboration of Design Thinking with Civics and Citizenship education supported the participants to develop and utilise empathy, uniting political knowledge with problem-solving skills to encourage what we are calling critical creativity. The findings of this paper drill down specifically to focus on the impact that Design Thinking and civic education had on the participants’ confidence to engage in their communities. More specifically, we analyse and connect a range of data that helps to build a picture of this impact, including the content of the creative works by participants, survey responses, media reports and observational diaries kept by the researchers.
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Conference Presentations by Cymbeline Buhler
The findings of this paper drill down specifically to focus on the impact that Design Thinking and civic education had on the participants’ confidence to engage in their communities. More specifically, we analyse and connect a range of data that helps to build a picture of this impact, including the content of the creative works by participants, survey responses, media reports and observational diaries kept by the researchers.
Papers by Cymbeline Buhler
The findings of this paper drill down specifically to focus on the impact that Design Thinking and civic education had on the participants’ confidence to engage in their communities. More specifically, we analyse and connect a range of data that helps to build a picture of this impact, including the content of the creative works by participants, survey responses, media reports and observational diaries kept by the researchers.