Biography
Kit Braybrooke is an anthropologist and artist-designer whose work explores how communities navigate culture, identity and belonging across shifting virtual and physical terrains. Director of the creative lab Studio Wê & Üs, which helps civil society organisations foster sustainable development through creative participation, from place making to digital making. Senior Researcher with Habitat Unit at Technische Universität Berlin and associate Research Fellow of the CreaTures (Creative Practices for Transformational Futures) project at University of Sussex, having conducted fieldwork on maker cultures and mutual aid networks and the circular economy in Germany, China, Japan, Canada and the UK. Holds a PhD in Media & Cultural Studies at Sussex for 'Hacking the Museum', an ethnographic study of user experiences of access and power at the U.K.’s first museum makerspaces in partnership with Tate, British Museum and Wellcome Collection.