Fanny is a design researcher and educator in Indonesia and Australia. As a Chinese-Indonesian designer educated in the West, she noticed that the hegemonic Western view remained the primary source for design education and practice. The effort to break the exclusivity and niche perspective around communication design informed her teaching, research and practice, ensuring that cultural literacy, empathetic practice and user/student-centred approach are used to develop methodology and pedagogy. Fanny works as a communication design lecturer and researcher at Swinburne University of Technology.