**** For all potential HDR supervision: I am on long service leave in semester 1 2026 and will not be available for supervision. ****
 
I am a registered architect who researches, teaches, and consults in Design Futuring. DF is the intersection of design and foresight methods for informed decision-making in built environment design. It operationalises and translates research from relevant knowledges for specific projects to create research-informed speculative designs for review. It is particularly useful placemaking, adaptive reuse, and briefing development, where collaboration is needed between designers and users, and can be applied at different scales, from small interiors to large urban responses.
 
I approach built environment design and occupancy as a social practice, not just as a creative artefact, and I integrate management tools such as systems thinking, complementarities, and scenario planning to test innovative approaches to built environment design, all with the aim of increasing diversity and inclusion in complex social, economic, and natural environments through:
 
- Understanding and defining complex human environment design problems
- Advocacy of inclusive human environments during design, simulation, planning and occupation, for both individuals and communities
- Creative and innovative design through adaptive reuse and sustainable design
- The sociology of built environment design
 
I research pragmatically and my research toolbox uses methods from STEM and HASS, including:
 
- Design research, including simulation and mapping
- Social science methods
- Data science
- Soft Operational Research methods (scenario planning)
- Architectural science methods
 
I lecture in the Bachelor of Interior Architecture (Honours) Program where I teach research, communication, creativity, construction, and human factors, to future interior designers.
 
In addition to being an architect, I originally trained in electrical and electronic engineering and have worked as a telecommunications systems engineer, which provides an innate systems worldview. I also have business leadership, management and consultancy experience. This wide background informs my inter-disciplinary approach to researching and teaching.
 
 
 For potential PhD students: I am only eligible to be a co-supervisor. You will need to find a person who can be a principal supervisor before approaching me. Thanks.
 
For PhD Principal supervisors: I am available for co-supervision, particularly for later writing phases of PhD by thesis. No NTRO thanks.