Creative Approaches to Health Information Ecologies

The ‘Health Information Ecologies’ project invited people to consider the ways they learn about their bodies and health by showing them images of the natural world – including trees and bushland. A film was made from the findings of this project and can be viewed here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aaPf_WevkwI

New research is investigating human-microbial relations and the microbiome and clean air politics. Trees, forests and bushland are integral to the planetary microbiome as well as humans’ individual microbiomes, and harbour commensal colonies of microbiota that support healthy ecosystems. They contribute to clean air by emitting oxygen, collecting carbon dioxide and absorbing harmful gaseous molecules, but bushfires can also cause harmful air pollution. The ways that AI technologies are used to both support ecosystems and biodiversity but also can have terrible impacts on the natural environment, including forests and bushland is another research theme, supported by my role as co-leader of the new project on AI/ADM, ecosystems and multispecies relationships funded by the ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society.