Dr. Lisa Scharoun holds a PhD in Visual Communications from the Queensland College of Art, Griffith University in Brisbane. Lisa’s interests are in design thinking, global design strategy, social design and the visual constuct of "utopia" in different cultures. She has designed motivational posters for the Australian Paralympic Atheletes at the 2012 and 2014 Paralympic Games and spent the later part of 2010 travelling around "dead malls" in Upstate New York and Massachussets to see how their decline has effected the accessible social spaces in these areas.