Tristan, has interdisciplinary expertise in designing communication, strategies, services, experiences and events that intersect strategic foresight and futures thinking, Indigenous Knowledge, decolonial thinking and sustainable transitions. Both his Gamilaroi and Australian-European heritage inform his design. He has served on the Australia Council for the Arts Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Arts Strategy Panel and continues to advise and facilitate for Aus Co. He has also been deputy chair of Blakdance, Australia’s peak body for Aboriginal dance, and is on the National Trust of Australia Queensland Indigenous Advisory Committee. Tristan has a Bachelor of Design majoring in product design, a Masters of Design Futures with Honours and a PhD in Design. He has also been a lecturer in the design department at QCA and is an Honorary Adjunct Fellow at the University of Technology Sydney.