Team

Leadership Team

Design Lab Support Team

Members

 

  • Dr Claire Brophy

    Areas of interest: Social Design, Social Innovation, Service Design, Human-Centered Design, Participatory Design, Design Thinking for Social Change, Co-creation and Collaboration, Ethical Design Practices

  • Mr Dean Brough

    Areas of interest: Skin cancer prevention, enhancing shade and liveability in tropical and sub-tropical climates.

  • Dr Sue Cake

    Areas of interest: Screenwriting, Scriptwriting, Narrative Comedy, Creative Practice-led Research, Reflective Practice

  • Dr Daniel Cook

    Areas of interest: More-than-Human Design, Human-Computer Interaction, Industrial Design, Digital Fabrication, Pollination Service Delivery, and Systems Design.

  • Assoc Prof Tiziana Ferrero-Regis

    Areas of interest: Sustainability in local/regional areas, city and the circular economy, textile and fashion exchange practices, transition design.

  • Peter Florentzos

  • Dr Elizabeth Gibbs

    Areas of interest: cultural policy, programming in Australian performing arts centers, audience relevance, cultural citizenship, contemporary dance pedagogy, contemporary dance creative practice

  • Icaro Ibanez-Arricivita

    Areas of interest: Aesthetics, Design, Sociology, Social Body, Disability, Co-Design, Fashion, and Transdisciplinary Design.

  • Dr Kathryn Kelly

    Areas of interest: Dramaturgy and socially engaged, feminist and transcultural performance practices

  • Dr Chris Koch

    Areas of interest: Cognition of creativity, aesthetics and styling, Industry 4.0 and advanced manufacture, sustainable design, design philosophy

  • Dr Tim Lindgren

    Areas of interest: Wearable technologies

  • Assoc Prof Judy Matthews

    Areas of interest: Business model innovation, design led innovation, design and strategic organisational renewal, creativity and entrepreneurship, exploration and exploitation, human resource management and innovation, innovation in SMEs, knowledge management and innovation, problem rraming and solving in complex environments

  • Dr Heather McKinnon

    Areas of interest: Sustainable Interaction Design; More-than-Human Design; Design for Sufficiency; Everyday Mundanity; Resource Waste & Conservation; Sustainability;

  • Dr Zoe Mellick

    Areas of interest: Understanding opportunities to create sustainable value along the apparel and textile supply chain.

  • Dr Shane Pike

    Areas of Interest: Augmented and virtual reality in performance design, digital dramaturgy and applied theatre, gender and performance, ethnodramatic and narrative design as a healthcare intervention, Asian-Australian narratives and performance perspectives.

  • Dr Leo Rezayan

    Areas of interest: Tangible Media, Embodied and Augmented Interaction, Physicalisation and Participatory Design

  • Ms Tessa Rixon

    Areas of Interest: Scenography, Digital Scenographies and Extended Reality Design, Intermedial Theatre design, Australian scenographic identities and histories, Ecoscenography and climate crisis theatre design

  • Prof Jonathan Roberts

    Areas of interest: Field robotics, medical robotics, performance robotics and design robotics

  • Dr Madeline Taylor

    Areas of interest: Design Collaboration, Design Communities of Practice, Digital Gift Economies, Community Wellbeing, and Sustainability.

  • Dr T.J. Thomson

    Areas of interest: Visual communication, visual media, digital media, artificial intelligence, and machine learning

  • Dr Jane Turner

    Areas of interest: Narrative Design and Narrative Methodologies, More-than-Human, and Game Design

  • Dr Anastasia Tyurina

    Areas of interest: Imaging Science, Creative Coding, Augmented Reality, Data Visualisation, Graphic Design, Visual Communication, Interactive Art, Ecological Art, Science Communication, Art & Science, STEAM

  • Dr Nicole Vickery

    Areas of interest: Human-Computer Interaction, Children-centred Design, and Playful Design

  • Dr Kirsty Volz

    Areas of interest: Housing Diversity Missing Middle Housing and Density Design-led solutions for housing affordability Queensland Architectural History Filmic Interiors Design for Manufacturing Technology in Construction

 

Postdoctoral Research Fellows

Research Students

  • Amara Bains

    Areas of interest: Community participation in artificial intelligence design; AI for social good; ICT for development (ICT4D); AI for development (AI4D); Anthro-complexity; Decolonisation, Ethics, Bias in artificial intelligence, Inclusive AI

  • Tess Brading

    Areas of Interest: Participatory design, co-design, creative health, immersive technologies, VR, XR, paediatric health, pain management, design for health.

  • Michael Bromage

    Areas of interest: Innovation and design, creative industries, institutionalism, intermediation, commoning, policy and governance, social ecology and innovation ecosystems, collaborative city-making and collaboration processes, collaborative technology, systems design and implementation, stories that change cities, and digital media.

  • Isabel Byram

    Areas of interest: Fashion and wearable products, Design for health and well-being, Sustainability, Process, trans/inter/multi-disciplinary design, Industry 4.0

  • Diego Camelo

    Areas of interest: Open innovation, green manufacturing, digital information

  • Sabine Carter

    Areas of Interest: Visual communication, design thinking, participatory action research, co-design, creative facilitation, community collaboration, craftivism and DIY culture, low- and slow tech, eco feminism, art activism, ethics and sustainability, circular economy, ecological identity

  • Justine Coneybeer

    Areas of Interest: Fashion, sustainability, social enterprise, waste, ethics, activism

  • Mathilde Desselle

    Areas of Interest: Design for health, advanced manufacturing, open innovation

  • James Dwyer

    Areas of Interest: the application of social cue derived communication mechanisms to appearance-constrained and functional robots and explores methods of virtual prototyping for improved Human-Robot Collaboration.

  • Stephen Fischer

    Areas of interest: Sustainable Design; Landscape Architecture; Health & Wellbeing.

  • Anthony Franze

    Areas of interest: Augmented, mixed and virtual reality technologies, advanced manufacturing, human-computer Interaction, transdisciplinary design, research through design, and participatory and collaborative design.

  • Kavita Gonsalves

    Areas of interest: Citymaking and civic engagement, Placemaking: Activism, Urban Play, Storytelling, Digital Placemaking Participatory Design

  • Martina Hale

    Areas of Interest: Designing Environments for people living with dementia; inclusive public places; Design for All

  • Naputsamohn (Ib) Junpiban

    Areas of interest: Cross-cultural approaches and co-design methods, Cross-cultural design for health and wellbeing, Realities technology, Design thinking, Youth mental health, Practice-based research methods

  • Wanjiru (E) Karanja

    Areas of Interest: Intergenerational learning and living environments, universal design, age-friendly cities, housing, urban resilience

  • Tobias Kramer

    Areas of interest: Thermal comfort, climate design, computational building simulation, machine learning

  • Amari Low

    Areas of interest: Locative media, virtual placemaking, interactive narrative, co-creative community engagement

  • Valeria Macalupu

    Areas of interest: Design robotics, human-robot interaction, wearable design.

  • Jenna Mikus

    Areas of interest: Design for Health & Well-being; Eudaemonia; Phygital (Physical + Digital) Experience Design; “Smart” Environments; Innovation & Design Thinking; Architectural Science; Sustainable Development & Urban Growth; More-than-Human Urban Theory; Self-Determination Theory; Co-design; Inclusive Design; Design or All

  • Mehrnoosh Mirzaei

    Areas of interest: Design for the real world, interaction design, experience design, child-centered design

  • Leighann Ness Wilson

    Areas of interest: Design Thinking, Design-led pedagogies, Primary Education, STEAM, Technologies Curriculum

  • Ksenia Nikolaeva

    Areas of interest: Urban planning, elevated walkways, site analysis, land use data, including land use mapping, visual impact assessment, conceptual planning, master planning, author's supervision.

  • Jun (Stefan) Quan Choo

    Area of interest: Embodied music interaction, wearables, music, wellbeing, mobilities

  • Ana Ricchiardi

    Areas of interest: Urban Morphology, transitional morphologies, urban and social sciences, mapping, informality, architecture for development, Global South

  • Ahmed Mohamed Nasr Sakr

    Areas of interest: Vernacular Architecture, Sustainability, Robotic Additive Manufacturing, Parametric design, and Space Architecture.

  • Hira Sheikh

    Areas of interest: More-than-Human and Multispecies Studies Smart Urban Governance Foresight Studies

  • Tara Stringer

    Areas of interest: Fashion, Modern slavery, Consumer behaviour, Ethics, Sustainability

  • Gunawan (Gunte) Tanuwidjaja

    Areas of interest: Inclusive design, human centred design, healthcare architecture, aging architecture, educational design

  • Dannielle Tarlinton

    Areas of Interest: Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction, Computer-Human Interaction, Human-Centred Design, Design for Children, User Engagement, User Experience

  • Khoa Tran

    Areas of Interest: Human-computer interaction (HCI), Child-computer interaction (CCI), tangible embodied and embedded interaction (TEI), intergenerational play, active play

  • Abigail Tucker

    Areas of interest: Experience design experiential retail fashion retail regional fashion communities fashion curating fashion merchandising sustainable fashion enterprise

  • Yuanyuan Wei

    Areas of Interest: Wearable Device Design, Mixed Reality, Human-Computer Interaction

  • Prithi Yadav

    Areas of interest: Design research, urban issues, experience design, design for social change, pluriversal design, transdisciplinary design

Visiting Fellows

  • Dr Linda Carroli

    Areas of interest: Sustainable transitions; socio-technical systems; urban and regional planning, design and policy; foundational economy; regional development; cultural policy

  • Dr Jock McQueenie

    Areas of interest: Social/digital inclusion, creativity in corporate social investment and professional development for creative professionals, community, culture and commerce

Alumni

  • Dr Fitri (Inka) Arlinkasari

    Areas of interest: Children's environments, child-friendly cities, children's participatory actions

  • Dr Gnanaharsha Beligatamulla

    Areas of interest: Design Thinking Pedagogy, Contemporary Design Practice and Theory (Design Thinking, Co-design, Participatory Design, Human-Centred Design), Integrated and transdisciplinary design, User experience beyond digital products, Teaching-Learning-Assessment in Design, Creativity and Innovation for all

  • Dr Alan Burden

    Areas of interest: Design robotics, digital fabrication, user experience (UX), interaction design (IxD), human-robot interaction (HRI), research-through-design (RtD)

  • Dr David Corbett

    Areas of interest: urban governance, civic participation and capacity-building for the adaptation of urban systems to change

  • Dr Rhodian Deetlefs

    Areas of interest: industrial design, remedial creative practice

  • Dr Matthew Hutchinson

    Areas of interest: seniors living design

  • Dr Waldemar Jenek

    Areas of interest: Architecture with immersive technologies, augmented reality, virtual reality, augmented experiences, mixed reality, immersive environments, media architecture, design education, educational virtuality, smart cities, building information modelling (BIM)

  • Dr Yu Kao

    Areas of interest: Interaction design, Research through Design, Design method, Creative placemaking

  • Dr Samantha Kies-Ryan

    Areas of interest: Community-based ater management, Community-based climate change adaptation, Co-creative media, Visual creative methods, Community cultural mapping, Participatory action research, Reflective practice, Creative facilitation

  • Dr Chen Kuangfan

    Areas of interest: Digital intervention in public space, playable engagement, gamification, technologies (VR, AR, MR etc.) application in future urban design

  • Dr Islam Mashaly

    Areas of interest: Building information modelling daylight design building performance simulation design optimisation

  • Dr Francisca Rodriguez

    Areas of interest: Dynamic daylight, Outdoor views, Post-Occupancy Evaluation methods, Subjective user assessments, Virtual Reality

  • Dr Ghazaleh Sepahpour

    Areas of interest: Design and psychology product-person interaction emotional experiences of everyday objects design for children

  • Dr Boyuan Sheng

    Areas of interest: Green infrastructure, water sensitive urban design, landscape planning, flood and drought management

  • Paige Street

    Areas of interest: Fashion, Global Responsibility, Digital Activism, Instagram, Political Consumerism, Feminism and Gendered Solidarity, Ethics and Sustainability

  • Dr Anna Svensdotter

    Areas of interest: Architecture, urban informatics, inclusiveness, interstitial urban space, spatial design.

  • Dr Ayman Wagdy

    Areas of interest: Daylight, glare, parametric design, building simulation, machine learning, advanced digital simulation and analysis, robotic control, VR and AR

  • Dr Yuehao (Hayley) Wang

    Areas of Interest: Human-Computer Interaction, Human-centered design, Interaction Design, Tangible and Embodied Interaction

  • Dr Kamal Wasala

    Areas of interest: Product design, fashion design, interactive digital design

  • Dr Matthew Zenkteler

    Areas of interest: Urban planning, future of work, place making

  • Dr Ding (Joe) Zhou

    Areas of interest: Design-led STEM education, Design-based pedagogy, Design for additive manufacturing/3D printing, Tangible interaction design

  • Dr Parisa Ziaesaeidi

    Areas of interest: Social sustainability, neighbourhood development, built environment