Craft Conversation with Dr. Diana Albarran Gonzalez
Thu, 25 Sept
|Micosoft Teams
Conversations with leaders on growing & maturing design practices
Time & Location
25 Sept 2025, 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm NZST
Micosoft Teams
About The Event
***Join the CX Collective on the Grow Tier to attend this event.***
Join us for an insightful Craft Conversation with Dr. Diana Albarran Gonzalez, a leading designer, educator, researcher, and craftivist at Waipapa Taumata Rau | University of Auckland. With over 20 years of international experience, Diana integrates a meaningful sense of cultural awareness and sensitivity in various contexts, bringing a diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) lens to design practice. Her research explores different ways of collaboration from decolonial, intersectional, and pluriversal perspectives, focusing on collective well-being, Indigenous knowledge, crafts-design-arts, textiles, migration, embodiment, and creativity.
Hear from Diana as she shares her expertise on nurturing and evolving design practice, encouraging the embrace of DEI, navigating challenges, and her proudest moments as a DEI advocate. We'll also explore questions like, "What has it been like using your craft practice to build and gather collectives?" and "How might we, as a community, embrace crafts in our…