| Time: | October 29, 2025, 10:00 a.m. – 11:30 a.m. |
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We are very excited to welcome Laureate Prof. Sarah Pink from the Monash University, Melbourne, Australia to our upcoming Constructive Conversations event on Wednesday, 29 October 2025 from 10:00 - 11:30 a.m.
Sarah Pink, Director of the Emerging Technologies Research Lab and FUTURES Hub, will give a lecture on “Construction work futures and the “twin” transitions".
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Topic: |
Construction work futures and the “twin” transitions |
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Laureate Prof. Sarah Pink |
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Date: |
Wednesday, 29 October 2025 | 10:00 - 11:30 p.m. |
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This lecture is part of the AdvanceAEC partner seminar series. Please register or log in to access the event credentials. |
The lecture will take place online.
Abstract
In this talk I explore construction work futures at the intersection of the “twin” digital and sustainability transitions. While both transitions often drive academic research, and policy and industry agendas, they tend to have been considered in isolation from each other in construction scholarship; or where related, digital transitions are arguable catalysts for clean energy and electrification.
My agenda is to explore and complicate possible work futures by bringing into dialogue dominant assumptions or visions about technologically driven transitions proposed by industry, government and consultancies, with social science knowledge about how people working in the industry imagine and experience possible futures, or imaginaries. To demonstrate this I draw on team-based collaborative design and futures anthropological research on construction work futures in Australia undertaken 2020-2025.
I propose an ongoing research agenda which understands the future construction industry workforce as a dynamic and diverse group, both shaped by and shaping digital and sustainability transitions in complex and sometimes unexpected ways.
©Prof. Sarah Pink
Bio
Sarah Pink is a an award winning design and futures anthropologist and documentary filmmaker, whose work is influential internationally both inside and beyond academia. Sarah is an Australian Research Council Laureate Professor, and has Honorary Doctorates from Malmo and Halmstad Universities in Sweden.
Sarah is currently Professor and Director of FUTURES Hub and the Emerging Technologies Research Lab at Monash, where she engages and innovates interdisciplinary and international research approaches to offer fresh perspectives and realistic future visions and foresight about the role of human futures in shaping digital and net zero transitions. She has a joint appointment across the Faculty of Art, Design and Architecture and the Faculty of Information Technology.
Sarah has over 25 years experiences of working with academic and industry research partners internationally and frequently gives keynote and public lectures in academic and business environments internationally.
She has published numerous academic books, peer referred journal articles and book chapters and directed several documentaries. Sarah is also known for her career-long focus on innovating new research and dissemination methodologies, and engaging design futures, digital, visual and sensory methods in interdisciplinary projects to engage with contemporary issues and challenges.
Sarah's research has been funded by national research councils in Australia, UK, Sweden, Norway and Spain, and the EU, and through industry partnerships internationally.
