James is a designer, educator, and researcher from Tāmaki Makaurau (Auckland), living in Te Matau-a-Māui (Hawkes Bay). He works as a design lecturer in the IDEAschool at the Eastern Institute of Technology, and keeps a freelance communication design practice going in addition to research and educational work. His practice-oriented research focuses primarily on design for new and emerging educational technologies, ecological literacy for designers, art+science collaboration, intercultural co-design, and indigenous epistemologies and design methodologies.