Project Title Burnout: the interplay of capacity and care within community-centred organizations

This research project explores the potential of life-centred design approaches within community organizations to respond to distressing employee experiences. The study investigates how dynamic and intense professional expectations contribute to distress impacting personal capacities, affecting personal well-being and ability to give and receive care. Through foresight and participatory design research methods — such as causal layer analysis to examine underlying causes, to identify emerging patterns and journey mapping to visualize employee experiences — the research aims to uncover new holistically-focused insights and impacts to support care providers.

Marie Succar is a creative with extensive experience in branding across a landscape of geographies, industries and communities. These enriching, mind and eye-opening experiences continue to shape her thinking and design process. As she integrates community-based research and systems thinking to her knowledgebase, she steps into the work recognising that at the depth of our humanity is an interwoven tapestry of connections that crosses generations, cultures and boundaries. With a childlike curiosity, Marie is driven by meaning and purpose, a philosophy that she lives by as she navigates life and her multitude of roles in it.