Sustainability and innovation in design
Overview
This research focuses on the delivery of sustainable environments, products and systems through the application of digital tools. It brings social and economic advantage to industry and community.
Particular areas of research strength include:
- complex urban systems design and building modeling
- peoples and systems
- urban informatics
- environmental design, social change and socio-design
- subtropical design
- cultural landscapes
- fashion
- design-led innovation.
Projects
- Bluetracker
- FixVegas iPhone application
- Discussions in space
- Mapping Multicultural Fashion In Brisbane
- The second life of urban planning
- Environmental data for Queensland households
- Involving young people in urban planning
- Technology for sustainable food culture in the city
- The present via the past: An archaeological approach to analysing the design and use of a contemporary urban village
- Fashion as a communication medium to raise environmental awareness and sustainable practice
- CityFlocks: Designing mobile systems for social navigation in urban public places
- Energy-thrift: Strategies to connect people through real-time visualisations of electricity consumption in social networks
- Understanding the implications of networked social interactions for the design of public urban spaces
- Urban informatics
- School-community engagement: A critical approach to involving young people in regional planning
