Team

Leadership Team

Design Lab Support

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

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 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