Event Details

Yoko Akama and Joyce Yee launched their edited book, Entanglements of Designing Social Innovation in the Asia-Pacific during RMIT University's Practice Research Symposium Asia opening night. This book, featuring 22 practitioners and researchers working in Aotearoa New Zealand, Cambodia, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, Myanmar, the Philippines, Samoa, Thailand, Vanuatu and a continent now called Australia explores issues of ethics, politics, and positionality from across the region.

Please feel free to download a post-reviewed, pre-published manuscript in the book:

• Introduction: Inter-related worldviews of designing social innovation by Yoko Akama and Joyce Yee
• "Calling on “aunties” and “nieces”: empowering women in creative sectors in Southeast Asia through designing mentorship" by Joyce Yee, Khemmiga Teerapong, Yoko Akama