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We design communication, strategies, experiences and events that help people think, talk and mobilise sustainable futures.

We are a passionate, multi-disciplinary design studio with expertise across traditional and leading edge design fields. Our expertise intersects with impact areas that advance transitions towards more sustainable and socially responsible ecological, socio-economic, political, policy, governance, cultural & arts paradigms.

We are serious about social responsibility, sustainability, social justice and equity and our practice exists within these contexts; as relative to just transitions in a green new world.

Position Statement

Responsibility: We are serious about social responsibility, sustainability, social justice and equity and our practice is activated under these contexts; as relative to just transitions in a green new world.

Respect: We are part of an ecosystem of practitioners, collaborators and community that treat everyone with ethical respect and care, like family; a relative.

Reciprocity: We believe in a practice that fosters designing where young people, non-ʻdesignersʼ, experts and plural worldviews interact and learn from one another; we are all relative.

Relationality: We embrace relational complexity because we live in a complex world and designing sustainable futures is a complex responsibility, we maintain a practice that encourages the same; everything is relative.

Radicality: We are open, transcendental and unapologetic about our concepts and ideas. The world changes through people rejecting the status quo and asserting that what might seem like radical ideas at the time, are actually ideas of better, more responsible, ethical and sustainable worlds that go down in history as achievements of humanity. We aspire to no less than this. Radicality is relative.

Team

Dr Tristan Schultz ,

Director, Design and Creative Lead, Founder

+61 421 247 288

tristan@relativecreative.com.au

Tristan Schultz is a designer, researcher and strategist of Gamilaroi and Australian-european descent. His work combines product, visual communication design, service design and systemic design, participatory design, experience, events and interpretive design with over a decade of research and professional practice in critical design studies, strategic foresight and futures thinking, decolonial thinking and sustainable transitions. This work cuts across commercial, non-commercial and government settings. He has served on a number of boards, publishes in critical design discourse widely and delivers keynotes, lectures, public speaking and resources, centred on contributing to the advancement of thinking, talking and mobilising sustainable, plural futures. Tristan leads all the creative direction and visual design resolve at Relative Creative. He has a Bachelor of Design majoring in Product Design, a Masters of Design Futures with Honours and a PhD in Design. Tristan has also been a convenor and lecturer in the design department at QCA, Griffith University, notably co-designing the Design Futures program and courses from 2012-2019. He is currently Honorary Adjunct Fellow at the University of Technology, Sydney in the Design School and Honorary Principal Research Fellow at RMIT, Melbourne.

Bec Barnett ,

Director. Project Lead

+61 422 501 511

bec@relativecreative.com.au

Bec is an interdisciplinary designer, project manager, lead researcher and Co-Director of Relative Creative. In this role, she spearheads the design and implementation of a wide range of projects. She has extensive experience at working across all levels of government as well as with a wide range of businesses and organisations and on projects of varying size and complexity. Bec has experience working in numerous cultural contexts and communities, in Australia and around the world.

Bec maintains an active research focus to remain informed and has published papers, presented at events and organised large multi-day workshops locally and internationally. She has previously convened, lectured and tutored for Griffith University’s Design School. Bec holds a B.Design and M. Design Honours (first class).