Origins
CxCD did not begin as a framework. It began as practice.
This is a practice timeline rather than a résumé. Each period shows what Emeli experienced, what she learnt and how that learning shaped the model.
RMIT Design Futures
Practice First. Theory Added Language.
Emeli's postgraduate study in Design Futures at RMIT provided additional language, theory and design architecture for practices she had already been developing through community work.
Where the study connects
- design futures
- participatory design
- systems thinking
- experience design
- intersectional design
- relational design
- collaborative inquiry
- prototyping
- designing for complexity
- future-facing organisational design
Decades of practice gave Emeli the knowledge. Design Futures helped her recognise, connect and formalise it.