Brodie Kershaw

UX Interaction Design

Brodie is a UX/Interaction graduate with a keen eye for service design, project management, design thinking, concept ideation and concept strategy. Prior to attending Swinburne, Brodie completed a Certificate III of Design Fundamentals, and a Diploma of Applied Design at the Tasmanian design school, Foundry.

He is finishing up an 8-month internship at ASPIRE PL, where he worked in an agile scrum environment, performing rapid-prototyping and undertaking user alternative testing in order to improve the online site as well as completing some user testing and UX research, exploring design alternatives.

During Covid-19, Brodie has been working on starting an events management social enterprise with the mission of heralding young, local musicians and artists as well as incorporating innovative arts and design experiences to his events and the local community.

Throughout his degree, Brodie has completed a minor in Neuroscience, applying this knowledge to sharpening his design skills, especially in the area of Multisensory Design. Brodie will be undertaking an honours in Health science, exploring the relationship between Multisensory Design and predictive behaviour in the cognitively unimpaired.

Brodie is open to any opportunities in the future.

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Acknowledgement of Country

The School of Design and Architecture respectfully acknowledges the Wurundjeri peoples of the Kulin Nation as the Traditional Owners and knowledge-keepers of the lands, waters and sky that surround us, where we work, learn, create, communicate and make place. We recognise that sovereignty has never been ceded and this always was and will always be Wurundjeri Country. We pay our respects to Elders past, present and to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people who continue to make a better world through design.

We extend our acknowledgement to the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander staff, students, alumni, real-life clients, and knowledge keepers, who have contributed to our own education diversity and growth. We will continue to ensure that staff and students respectfully honour ancestral connection to Country and Place in everything that they do.

We are dedicated to the notion of design to make a better world and we acknowledge that making tools, shaping place, sharing stories, making meaning, wayfinding and collaborating have long been and continue to be both central and integral to First Peoples' cultures. We recognize that Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples’ cultural contributions have continued relevance to design practice and commit to: reconciling ancestries of design and contemporary practice as well as pursuing culturally and professionally appropriate ways to engage with a diverse population of colleagues, industries and clients. In a time of treaty-making and voice we understand that there are overlaps between caring for Country and the sustainable production of goods, services, experiences, products and buildings.

Guided by the principles of respect, reconciliation, and reciprocity we undertake to indigenising and decolonising design practice by dismantling colonial structures and challenging biases that have marginalised Indigenous voices and design.

As students of SoDA you will be given opportunities to both engage with and educate yourself in Indigenous creative practices and cultural protocols through a lens of inclusivity, diversity, respect, mutual understanding, inter-cultural dialogue in all aspects of design practice. Indigenous people have been telling stories, making tools, and connecting to Country through visual media, placemaking and place marking for more than 60,000 years and these practices are part of an ongoing, evolving and live tradition.