Guy Keulemans

Research Interests

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander design practice and management Built Environment and Design Crafts Design Sustainable design Waste management, reduction, reuse and recycling

Teaching Strengths

Design concepts
Prototype fabrication methods and technologies
Sustainable design frameworks
Theory for design, craft and art
Practice based research methods

APrf Guy Keulemans

Enterprise Fellow

School of Art and Design

College of Creative Arts, Design and Humanities

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Guy Keulemans is a designer, artist and researcher. His major research themes are repair and reuse, generative processes, materials of design, and the environmental impacts of production and consumption. An Enterprise Fellow at the University of South Australia, he is Craft and Design Team Leader a the Creative People, Products and Places Research Centre (CP3) and associate member of the Australian Research Centre for Interactive and Virtual Environments (IVE). His current research is funded through the Australian Research Council Linkage Project Designing for sustainability using a transformative repair model in partnership with Australian Design Centre and JamFactory.
Interest in materials has led Guy towards examination of sustainability across supply chains and their role in product typologies from from architecture to jewellery. Guy develops concepts for understanding studio practice-based reseach through theoretical frameworks including affect, biogregionality and transition design. His human research involves ethnographic, curatorial and technological study of transformative repair, as a means to know how designers and craftspeople engage with industrial scale issues of waste and obsolescence.
Guy has a Masters in Humanitarian Design from the Design Academy Eindhoven and a PhD from UNSW Sydney. His awards include the UNSW Art & Design Deans Award for Excellence in Early Career Research (2019), UniSA Creative Innovation in Research Award (2024), Australian Council of University Art and Design Schools Excellence in Research (2024) and the Australian Council of Deans and Directors of Creative Arts Distinguished Innovation in Creative Arts Award (2024). Internationally, he has exhibited in museums and galleries in the Netherlands, Germany, Poland and Austria (at ARS Electronica). In Australia, Guy has works in the permanent collection of the National Gallery of Victoria and the Art Gallery of South Australia, and led the Visions of Australia funded touring exhibition Object Therapy (2016-2019). He is represented in Australia by Gallery Sally Dan-Cuthbert alongside regular collaborator Kyoko Hashimoto. Together they were named one of the Top 100 Game Changers in Design by Architectural Digest Italia in 2021 and won the South Australian Museum’s Waterhouse Natural Science Art Prize in 2022.

Guy investigates transformative repair and reuse through his research projects, such as his ARC Linkage Project Designing for sustainability using a transformative repair model (2020-25) with partners UNSW, Australian Design Centre and JamFactory

His research also investigates technologies, materials and methods for bioregional design, sustainable design transitions, and critical design and craft frameworks.

Date Position Institution name
2024 - ongoing Craft and Design Team Leader Creative People, Products and Places Research Centre (CP3)
2023 - 2025 Mid-Career Researcher Forum Representative to the Research Strategy Group University of South Australia

Date Type Title Institution Name Country Amount
2024 Research Award Excellence in Research Award 2024 Australian Council of University Art and Design Schools (ACUADS) Australia -
2024 Research Award Distinguished Innovation in Creative Arts 2024 Australian Council of Deans & Directors of Creative Arts (DDCA) Australia -
2024 Research Award UniSA Creative Innovation in Research Award 2024 University of South Australia Australia -
2022 Recognition Top 100 Game Changer in Design, 2021 Architectural Digest Italia Italy -
2022 Award Waterhouse Natural Science Art Prize, winner, Open Prize 2022 South Australian Museum Australia -
2019 Research Award Dean’s Award for Excellence in Early Career Research 2019 UNSW Sydney Australia -

Date Institution name Country Title
2010 - 2015 UNSW Sydney Australia PhD
2007 - 2009 Design Academy Eindhoven Netherlands Master of Design
1999 - 2003 UNSW Sydney Australia Bachelor of Design (Hons, 1st)

Date Title Institution name Country
2016 Foundations of University Learning and Teaching (FULT) UNSW Sydney Australia

Year Citation
2024 Keulemans, G., & Adams, R. (2024). Emergent digital possibilities for design-led reuse within circular economy. npj Urban Sustainability, 4(31), 1-13.
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2023 Keulemans, G., Jansen, T., & Cahill, L. (2023). Transformative repair x ADC: visual analysis of works. Disena, 2023(23, article no. 6), 1-27.
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2020 Keulemans, G. (2020). Ceramic repair in the age of fossil fuel. The Journal of Australian Ceramics, 59(3), 88-93.
2018 Adams, C., & Keulemans, G. (2018). Guardian: made in Cambodia: experimental textile design responding to Cambodian factory conditions, unionism and the phenomenon of Neak Ta possession. Clothing Cultures, 5(1), 97-109.
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2016 Keulemans, G. (2016). The geo-cultural conditions of kintsugi. The Journal of Modern Craft, 9(1), 15-34.
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2015 Keulemans, G. (2015). Affects of industry and environment in the experience of a domestic object. Studio Research, (3), 18-29.
2012 Keulemans, G. (2012). The trajectories of yachts and snot: strategies for generative designers. Deleuze Studies, 6(1), 72-88.
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Year Citation
2024 Keulemans, G., & Hashimoto, K. (2024). Not in my backyard: supply chain experimentation in critical design and craft. In C. Bremner, P. Rodgers, & G. Inella (Eds.), Source details - Title: Design for the Unthinkable World: Strange Ecology and Unwelcome Change (pp. 88-106). US: Routledge.
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2023 Kalantidou, E., Keulemans, G., Lopes, A. M., Rubenis, N., & Gill, A. (2023). Preface - Design/repair: place, practice & community. In E. Kalantidou (Ed.), Source details - Title: Design/repair: place, practice & community (pp. v-vi). Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan.
2023 Keulemans, G., Jansen, T., & Cahill, L. (2023). Luxury and Scarcity: Exploring Anachronisms in the Market for Transformative Repair. In E. Kalantidou (Ed.), Source details - Title: Design/Repair (pp. 41-64). Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan.
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2023 Kalantidou, E., Keulemans, G., Lopes, A. M., Rubenis, N., & Gill, A. (2023). Roundtable: a discussion about design/repair. In E. Kalantidou (Ed.), Source details - Title: Design/Repair: Place, Practice & Community (pp. 265-295). Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan.
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2023 Kalantidou, E., Keulemans, G., Lopes, A. M., Rubenis, N., & Gill, A. (2023). Introduction - Design/Repair: Place, Practice & Community. In E. Kalantidou (Ed.), Source details - Title: Design/Repair: Place, Practice & Community (pp. 1-10). Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan.
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2021 Keulemans, G. (2021). New materials: fast tech and slow design. In S. Todd (Ed.), Source details - Title: Hybrid (pp. 1-13). Australia: Powerhouse Museum.

Year Citation
2024 Authors: Keulemans G, Hashimoto K. Title: Works for Mulka Yata / Knowledge of place. Extent: 16 rings, Dimensions: various sizes, largest 15 x 5 x 6 cm.
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2024 Authors: Keulemans G, Larcombe R, Robertson A, Chang O. Title: Transformative Repair x JamFactory short documentary video collection. Description: Data source: Supplementary information, Machine created video transcripts have not been human proofed and may contain transcription errors., https://mymailunisaedu-my.sharepoint.com/:f:/g/personal/keulemg_unisa_edu_au/Eky0x46nCrhImbpy3V35RMIBQpHD6lLRKr2VhJpTDRTQHQ?e=Wk0ack. Extent: 12 videos (3-6min).
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2023 Authors: Keulemans G, Hashimoto K, Innella G, Rodgers P, Bremner C. Title: Design for the unthinkable world: carbon cases and carbon locket. Extent: 3 cut and polished pieces of coal.
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2022 Authors: Keulemans G, Hashimoto K. Title: Conglomerate vases. Extent: In geology, a conglomerate is a kind of sedimentary rock containing particulate materials in a cementitious binder. Such rocks are formal articulations of larger, unremitting processes of the earth; energetic forces that grind, melt, abrade and compress. In business, a conglomerate is a kind of corporation made up of smaller independent, sometimes unrelated, businesses that operate for the benefit of the conglomerate meta-structure.These vases bind production waste materials together to create a formal expression for the conglomeration of industrial waste-making machines that consume and process the earth. Within this framing, design practices such as ours are small particulate activities, operating precariously in a larger economic structure privileging capital expansion and economic growth..
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2022 Authors: Keulemans G, Hashimoto K. Title: Bioregional Rings (Central Coast). Extent: Hawkesbury sandstone, coal, drift wood, pumice stone, sea sponge, fishing line, marine plastic, sand, neodymium magnet and sterling silver.
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2021 Authors: Keulemans G. Title: Time to start thinking about the world you don't want. Extent: N/A.
2021 Authors: Keulemans G, Hashimoto K, Harkness M. Title: Polylactic Acid Chain 2. Extent: 3D polymer plastic.
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2021 Authors: Keulemans G, Hashimoto K, Harkness M. Title: Designworks for sampling the future. Extent: largescale installations.
2020 Authors: Keulemans G. Title: Notes on life and death, a manifesto introduction to life & death. Extent: Curatorial essay.
2020 Authors: Keulemans G, Hashimoto K. Title: Differing Perspectives, an exhibition essay. Extent: 6 pages.
2020 Authors: Keulemans G. Title: The case for wood. Extent: Wood has capacities to resist entropy as a material that creates structure in its trunks and branches. The processing of any material from a raw substance creates entropy, a transformation of matter that makes its embodied energy less structured and easier to unleash - explosively and tragically for the planet in the case of fossil fuels. Wood, however, has great potential for uses that conserve its anisotropic potential, its variation and complexity in structure, facilitating downstream uses and reuses for circular economy. Boat builders from past centuries used to exploit the natural formations of trees, their limbs and forks. Today wood is having a renaissance through use in high-rise glu-lam buildings. But contemporary potential is under-explored: Tillamook aircraft hangar, pictured holding eight ZP-33 airships, was built more than 75 years ago, but is still the worlds largest clear span wooden building. Now, technologies like 3D scanning can take advantage of wood structures in new and innovative ways..
2019 Authors: Keulemans G. Title: Notes on the idea of a Wasteland: welcome to Wasteland catalogue essay. Extent: 2 pages.

  • Designing for adaptive reuse in the built environment: concepts, technologies and practice, Green Industries SA, 01/06/2023 - 31/12/2026

  • University of South Australia, SIDA Foundation and The David Roche Foundation Curatorial Research Fellowship, Society of Interior Designers of Australia (SIDA), 12/06/2023 - 12/12/2024

Courses I teach

  • ARCH 6006 Principles of Sustainable Design (2025)
  • CREA 4002 Honours Research 2 (Creative) (2025)
  • GRAP 5005 Research Studio 1 (2025)
  • GRAP 5006 Research Studio 2 (2025)
  • ARCH 6006 Principles of Sustainable Design (2024)
  • CREA 4002 Honours Research 2 (Creative) (2024)
  • GRAP 5005 Research Studio 1 (2024)
  • GRAP 5006 Research Studio 2 (2024)

Date Role Board name Institution name Country
2026 - 2028 Member Executive Board Australian Council of Deans and Directors of Creative Arts Australia

Date Role Committee Institution Country
2024 - 2025 Member International Conference for Design History & Studies (ICDHS) 2025 Indian Institute of Technology Delhi India

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