Cultural and sustainable landscapes
Australia's changing ecological and cultural landscapes and its place in broader international regions presents vital challenges at this moment.
Through the inter-disciplinary depth and breadth of researchers in the Faculty, a program of research work in these fields is building knowledge that will contribute to the way future landscapes will be designed, managed, protected and regenerated.
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Architecture and Industry: The migrant contribution to nation-building
Linking immigrant social histories to industrialisation through an explicitly spatial analysis, this project explores the post-war architectural, rural and industrial landscapes of Australia as shaped by the labour of displaced persons.
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Building an Integrated System for Australian Bushfire Prevention
This project aims to work closely with researchers, practitioners, the community and Crime Stoppers to develop a comprehensive approach to prevent arson.
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Campus: Building Modern Australian Universities
The commitment to the environmental quality of university campuses is central to the modern contemporary tertiary experience and represents a growing multi-million dollar public investment in higher education infrastructure.
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Climate Change Adaptation: Suitability Indices of Human Settlement Fire Vulnerability
Identifying and assessing bushfire risk to homes
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Community Activated Placemaking Spaces (CAPS)
The project harnesses community-based participatory research to evaluate existing use patterns of playgrounds and ancillary public spaces as intergenerational spaces to inform improved design for social inclusion and community wellbeing.
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Equitable Outcomes in Adaptation to Sea Level Rise
Adapting to sea-level rise is a challenging but important task for communities and governments to navigate.
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Exploring the contribution of Indigenous Cultural Practices for Health and Wellbeing in Indigenous young people
This project is developing an Elder-led model of health care that includes reclamation of Indigenous cultural practices, guided by Indigenous artists, to improve mental health and wellbeing.
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Global South Research and Pedagogy
Considering areas in the Global South - those regions outside Europe and North America - not as recipients of exported knowledge but as producers of theories, methods and world views that question the motivations of Western ways of knowing.
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Integrating climate change adaptation and mitigation in built environments
This project aims to facilitate climate change adaptation and mitigation across Australia’s built environment: progressing climate change action, informing investment decisions and reducing harm and cost of climate change impacts.
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Landscape Assessment and Analysis of the Cooper Creek Catchment
Knowledge to inform sustainable management solutions
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Mapping Melbourne's Peri-Urban Agricultural Land
Protecting land around Melbourne for food production.
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Seacombe West – Australia’s First Regenerative Community
The Seacombe West site is significantly degraded as a result of salt water entering the Gippsland Lakes system in the late 1800s.
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Tourism development and local resilience: self-organisation and community empowerment perspectives
How can tourism development affect community resilience to natural hazards in different self-organisation and regulatory contexts? How should policy-making address these relationships?
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Wave Hill Walk Off Trail
The Wave Hill Walk Off Route is a National Heritage Listed site that is associated with the events that took place in 1966 -1975 which saw the Indigenous Gurindji people, led by Vincent Lingiari, take a stand against oppressive working conditions and maltreatment.
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Wildfire Disaster Prevention, Preparedness, Response and Recovery in Coastal Tourist Destinations: the case of Wye River, Australia
From a regional resilience perspective, what were the outcomes of prevention, preparedness, response and recovery strategies in place for the 2015 Wye River wildfires? How does tourism help shape these?
Researchers
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Dr Amanda Achmadi, Senior Lecturer in Architectural Design -
Dr Behnaz Avazpour, Postdoctoral Research Associate -
Dr Geoffrey Browne, Postdoctoral Research Fellow -
Dr Judy Bush, Senior Lecturer in Urban Planning -
Dr Siqing Chen, Senior Lecturer in Landscape Architecture -
Professor Alexander Felson, Elisabeth Murdoch Chair of Landscape Architecture -
Professor Ray Green, Professor in Landscape Architecture and Heritage -
A/Prof Margaret Grose, Associate Professor in Landscape Architecture -
A/Prof Anna Hurlimann, Associate Professor in Urban Planning -
Nancy Ji, Lecturer in Architectural Design -
Dr Nano Langenheim, Assistant Dean Technology -
Professor Alan March, Professor in Urban Planning -
A/Prof Julie Tian Miao, Associate Professor in Property and Economic Development -
Dr Mandy Nicholson, Senior Lecturer in First Peoples Perspectives in Design -
Dr David O'Brien, Senior Lecturer -
A/Prof Cathy Oke, Melbourne Enterprise Principal Fellow in Informed Cities -
Dr Hannah Robertson, Lecturer -
A/Prof Andrew Saniga, Associate Professor in Landscape Architecture, Planning and Urbanism -
Dr Sidh Sintusingha, Senior Lecturer in Landscape Architecture -
A/Prof Jillian Walliss, Associate Professor in Landscape Architecture -
Wendy Walls, Lecturer in Landscape Architectural Design