Stephanie Ochona
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Stephanie Ochona

Designer and illustrator in Bulleke-bek, Wurundjeri Country, She/They

Watching grass grow and seed during Buarth Garru season

24 days ago

About

Currently completing a PhD at RMIT about interaction design for urban biodiversity 🌱. Previously the publication designer and illustrator at Overland Literary Journal. Interested in multi[species + sensory] collaborations, publication design and risograph printing.

Projects

2024

An interactive workshop to engage people with care-full ways of co-habiting urban spaces with native and indigenous plants through loose parts play. Presented with the WIP Club for the 2024 Melbourne Design Week.

2023

Interactive temporal object that aims to alleviate the physical symptoms of eco-anxiety through the soothing heart beat of a seal.

2023

Graphic design for Luna Mrozik Gawler's award-winning CARRYKIN, an experiential futures installation first presented at Blindside Gallery as a part of the Seaweed Appreciation Society ‘Microalgea Mobilisation’ group show in 2023.

2023

A DIY zine workshop that encouraged reflection about food and culture through collage and mini publication making activities.

2023

Graphic design for promotion of Chess without borders exhibition at the Immigration Museum

2022

An olfactory sense-making workshop about public data about green spaces in Melbourne.

2022
Hivemind

A transgenerational board game about tackling cognitive biases in the age of misinformation.

2022
B.U.D.S.

A 'bioremediating urban drainage system' that utilises existing building infrastructure to speculate on the potential remedial ecosystem services in developed areas.

2021

Website graphic design/visual identity, wireframing and content creation.

2021

Comic for 'Salt' Issue #21

2020
Foresight researcher at School of International Futures

Education

2023 — Now
PhD candidate in the School of Design at Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology
2020 — 2022
Master of Design, Innovation and Technology at Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology
2012 — 2015
Bachelor of Creative and Professional Writing at Queensland University of Technology

Work Experience

2023 — Now
Casual sessional lecturer at RMIT Communication Design
2021 — 2023
Studio assistant at RMIT Communication Design
2023
Plump at RMIT Gallery
Melbourne, Australia

Melbourne Design Week

2023
Plump at Wirrng Wirrng (Queenscliff Hub)
Queenscliff

Pop up installation

2022
Sensory Garden Lab at M Pavilion
Melbourne, Australia

Melbourne Design Week

2022
Melbourne Art Book Fair at NGV
Melbourne, Australia
2023
Care-full design of plant companionship for more-than-human neighbourhoods at Practice Research Symposium (RMIT)
Melbourne, Victoria

PhD Confirmation of Candidature presentation

2023
Plump: empathy in more-than-human design at Melbourne Design Week
Melbourne, Australia
2023
Empathy in more-than-human food systems at Practice Research Symposium (RMIT)
Melbourne, Australia

First work in progress presentation for PhD creative practice research

2022
Sensory Garden Lab: how data installations can drive civic participation at Melbourne Design Week
Melbourne, Australia

Certifications

2020
Foundation in Content Design from Content Design London

Side Projects

Ongoing

DIY zines, publication designs and risograph prints

Contact

CV
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