Lucas Ihlein is an artist and academic. He is a Senior Lecturer in Creative Arts at University of Wollongong. His research uses socially-engaged art to explore cultural innovations in farming - principally in the sugar cane industry in Central Queensland. Lucas is a founding member of Kandos School of Cultural Adapation, which in November 2016 hosted Futurelands2, a public forum in rural NSW about transformations in human relationships to land.