Skate, Create, Educate and Regenerate (SkateCER) Lab. Seeing the city and public space differently through skateboarding and other forms of urban and creative play.

The SkateCER Lab is an initiative and growing enterprise that explores, highlights and fosters how we can ‘skate, create, educate and regenerate’ together. As part of this goal, SkateCER places a spotlight on how skating and other creative sports and subcultures contribute to playful, healthy, creative, sustainable and socially inclusive cities.

SkateCER combines research expertise, community knowledge and innovative approaches to create safer and inclusive skate spaces, programs for social good, educational workshops and impactful events. Explore our website to get to know some of our flagship projects, services and resources plus key supporters and partners.

SkateCER is created and led by Dr Indigo Willing and was launched in 2024 at part of her Visiting Fellowship at the Sydney Social Sciences and Humanities Advanced Research Centre at The University of Sydney. Indigo is a dedicated skateboarder, and her leadership includes in internationally recognised and award winning community initiatives. She has also been a policy consultant in work for Skate Australia, and the recipient of grants from by high profile institutions including the Advanced Olympic Research Grant Programme.


Images: Dr Willing with her 2024 collaborators Dr Sanne Mestrom and Nadia Odlum at Art/Play/Risk Lab creating co-designed City Canvas skateable public art for Festival of Urbanism panel with Nick Hayes, Poppy Starr, Timothy Lachlan and HY William Chan.

Images: Dr Willing with 3D printed miniature skate objects for World Science Week Brisbane activation ‘Design Your Own Skatepark’ workshop, sponsored by QLD Museum.

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