Work with Propensities

Cultural strategy & public art advisory

Research strategy, programme development, and advisory work for arts institutions, biennials, foundations, and public art programmes. Fifteen years of this work across Asia and the Pacific, alongside editorial and governance roles in the field.

Place, participation & wellbeing evidence

Where belonging, participation, and place policies are not producing expected outcomes, and the dimensions of place value that matter most to communities are not visible to planning and development systems. Qualitative evidence at the scale decisions are actually made.

Anticipatory evidence for care & social services

Where a service change, a new digital system, or a shift in eligibility will land unevenly across differently organised households, and the consequences are not yet documented because the change has not happened. RSS renders the encounter in advance. Two pilots complete; a third in development.

Enquiries

Propensities works with communities and organisations where the gap between how a system models the social world and how that world functions is producing consequences existing frameworks cannot address.

Engagements combine research and consulting. They produce findings that advance the intellectual programme while addressing a specific systemic problem; the research is not separate from the application. Start with an email describing the decision you are facing and when it has to be made.