Community-Led Design: Circular Timber Systems
This nine-year research project develops an education-based circular construction system in which students and community members co-design, build, and evaluate sustainable timber structures that can be repeatedly assembled and disassembled.
Resilience Thinking ‘Walkshop’
Transdisciplinary Art & Science Resilience Thinking Walkshop:
The Paths of Water proposes a new way of exploring the relationship between cities and
nature through the central role of water.
Site Engagement: SDGs, People & Place
A critical site-specific approach grounded in the SDGs, students engage in month-long fieldwork in pressured regions. Collaborating with local communities, they test designs informed by context, gaining methodological, empathetic, and applicable architectural competencies.
Global Development Program (WIT)
The post-master’s level WiT Programme explores multisectoral collaboration as a catalyst for global sustainability and development. It bridges the capacities of universities, organisations and professionals to advance the resilience of underprivileged communities globally.
RISE: Revitalising Informal Settlements & their Environments
RISE transforms human and environmental health in informal settlements through water-sensitive, naturebased infrastructure. Working with communities and governments in Fiji and Indonesia, it delivers sanitation upgrades and evidence to scale resilient, equitable urban futures.
Climate Change and Social Vulnerabilities
The project aims to map and analyze urban dynamics and landscapes using GIS processing
as strategies for reducing the risks arising from climate change in the Rio de Janeiro Metropolitan Region.
First Nations Country-Centric Design
Designing civic architecture for Wilcannia, NSW, this project centres Country, community, and culture, engaging with Barkindji knowledge to create contextually responsive, inclusive spaces through collaborative, research-led design.
TRC + LC3 Prototype Pavilion
This research through making aims to explore with students the structural, architectural, environmental, and social dimensions of Textile Reinforced Concrete and its applications, particularly in the context of social construction in the Global South.
Embedding the SDGs in Design Education
Design Process Studio integrated UNSDGs into second-semester interior design education, positioning sustainability as foundational rather than supplementary. Students addressed real-world challenges, examining how design decisions intersect with environmental, social, and economic systems.