Submit your expression of interest to participate in BILYA Lab with Dr Jen Rae, H.C. Coombs Creative Arts Fellow.

About the BILYA Lab: We are looking for ~30-35 people to help inform the next iteration of BILYA with us in a full-day participatory lab on 12 June 2024 at ANU.

This includes potential USERS + PEOPLE with expertise across climate adaptation, Indigenous knowledge systems, data (representation, privacy + sovereignty), accessibility, AI, behavioral + social sciences, culture + arts - including funders, artists, policy makers and futurists. Are you one of these people? What expertise can you bring? We welcome a plurality of knowledges and hope that those who participate will enjoy ideating together and develop some relationships that will live long. To find out more about BILYA, please visit: www.centreforreworlding.com/bilya or www.bilya.net.au

Lunch will be provided. We will be documenting the lab and acknowledging your participation.

Any inquiries, please contact hello@centreforreworlding.com

About Dr Jen Rae: Jen Rae (PhD) is an award-winning artist and researcher of Canadian Scottish-Métis (Indigenous) descent living on unceded Djaara Country (Castlemaine) Australia. She is recognised for her practice and expertise situated at the intersections of art, speculative futures and climate emergency disaster adaptation + resilience – predominantly articulated through transdisciplinary collaborations, multi-platform art projects, community alliances and Indigenous pedagogies. She is a Co-founder and the Creative Research Lead at the Centre for Reworlding, a member of the National Task Force for Creative Recovery, and was awarded a prestigious 2023 Creative Australia Fellowship for Emerging and Experimental Art. Jen is ANU’s 2024. H.C. Coombs Creative Arts Fellow developing the next stage of BILYA with collaborators Claire G. Coleman, Lee Shang Lun (PlayReactive) and researchers at ANU.