Yoko Akama is a design researcher and educator in the School of Design, RMIT University, by Naarm, Kulin Nation (also called Melbourne, Australia). She is a recipient of several national and international awards and research funding for collaborative work with self-determining Indigenous nations and regional communities preparing for disaster. Her practice explores ways to enhance qualities of inter-relating through differences and plurality. While she has lived, studied and worked in the UK, US and Australia, her Japanese heritage and ongoing work with collaborators in and from Asia continues to shape her practice. She brings this practice to research, teaching and various platform leadership through participatory collaboration to address various entrenched issues and explore shared human and more-than-human futures.
