In 2010, I founded an organisation called Marco Polo Project. It started as a digital platform for collaborative translation of new Chinese writing, then pivoted towards workshop design, to support people who negotiate hybrid identities across languages and cultures.

Marco Polo ProjectJune 27, 2022China, failure, Social enterpreneurship, successComment

How to bring together a digital community?

Marco Polo Project, Professional musings, FuturesMarch 8, 2020Comment

A paradox of language learning

What is learning?, Language learning, Marco Polo ProjectSeptember 1, 2018ambiguity, complexity, education, learning, MultilingualismComment

Is this an invitation - or a sales pitch?

Moral reflections, Professional musings, Marco Polo ProjectNovember 17, 2014clarity, delusion, ethicsComment

The Beijing Series

Marco Polo ProjectSeptember 26, 2014WritingComment

Festival time

Three days to the Marco Polo Festival! It's been eighteen months at least since I first sat down in Little Lonsdale Street to discuss an idea for a program that would bring together writers and readers from Australia and China who embraced the internet as a key part of their practice - combining online and offline events.