Project Team
UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES (LEAD INSTITUTION)
Robert Zehner (BA Amherst MA PhD Michigan, MASA MPIA) is Senior Associate Dean in the Faculty of the Built Environment at the University of New South Wales. He is a social scientist whose research and publications have focussed on responses of residents to living in various environments including new towns and planned communities, mining towns and award-winning medium density housing. His research has also included three nationwide studies of local government responses to climate change, of Sydney resident responses to aircraft noise, and a longitudinal study of practicing planners and planning education. He came to the UNSW from the University of North Carolina as a Fulbright Scholar, and formally joined the School of Town Planning in 1976. He is a recipient of a UNSW Vice-Chancellor's Award for Teaching Excellence and an ALTC Citation for Outstanding Contributions to Undergraduate Learning, and has been an Assessor for the ALTC National Teaching Awards.
Graham Forsyth is Associate Dean (Academic) at the College of Fine Arts, the University of New South Wales. He Forsyth has undertaken a number of integrated research projects into teaching and learning that address the nature of the ‘student experience’ and the ways curricula, assessment and teaching practices impact on this experience. He was part of the organising committee of ConnectED2007 International Conference on Design Education in 2007 and is chair of the organising committee for ConnectED2010. Graham was recently awarded a Citation for Outstanding Contribution to Student Learning by the Australian Learning and Teaching Council. Graham is also currently undertaking research on teaching and writing practice about contemporary art and its interface with cultural and social forms. Graham’s recent major writing project Flight Research Spin on the work of Rosemary Laing addresses the photographer’s practice in the context of its political and ethical engagement with and within the charged multicultural environment of the late 20th Century.
UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND
Elizabeth Musgrave [BDesSt Qld., BArch (Hons Class 1) Qld., MPhil Qld., RAIA] studied architecture at The University of Queensland and is a registered Architect. She has been a member of the Board of Architects of Queensland, the RAIA Queensland Chapter Education Committee and the School of Geography Planning and Architecture Teaching and Learning Committee. She is currently the Chair of the School of Architecture Teaching and Learning Committee and a member of the National Assessment Panel of the Architects Accreditation Council of Australia (AACA).
Research interest lies in the field of architectural design and architectural design pedagogy. In 2005 she received a commendation through the UQ Excellence in Teaching Awards. Practice experience includes domestic, commercial and institutional project work. In 2004 the Hilltop House, completed in association with John Price Architect, was awarded the RAIA Brisbane Region ‘House of the Year Award.’
Douglas Neale lectures in Architectural Design in The School of Architecture, The University of Queensland. He is an architect having worked in commercial practices between 1988-1999 in Brisbane and London. He has 20 years experience teaching all year levels of Architectural Design and since his appointment in 1999 has developed several innovative Studio teaching programmes including collaboration with visiting colleagues; Professor Tom Heneghan, Professor of Architecture, Tokyo University of The Arts and Donald Bates, Lab Architecture Studio. He has been an invited critic to design juries at QUT and RMIT. Research projects encompass the fields of architectural design and design pedagogy, representation and aspects of modernity in Australian Architecture. In 2006 he was invited by the Association of Australasian Schools of Architecture (AASA) Heads of Schools Workshop to reflect on teaching the year-long, self-directed, final year Studio he coordinated between 2004-2006. In 2006 and 2007 he was nominated for the UQ Awards for Excellence in Teaching. He is currently leading a UQ funded research project examining tacit knowledge and the role of process in architectural design studio learning.
RMIT UNIVERSITY
Fiona Peterson, MEd (Teaching), PhD is Deputy Head, Learning & Teaching of the School of Media and Communication at RMIT University. In 2008 she received an Australian Learning and Teaching Council (ALTC) Citation Award for outstanding contributions to student learning. Her research interests include learning and teaching, strategic knowledge networks and virtual communities, and her doctoral thesis was titled: "Technologically Speaking ... Creating a Strategic Knowledge Network and the new 'Network Advantage' for Global Education". Fiona is a Chief Investigator in the ALTC Studio Teaching Project (2007-2009) and the ALTC Leadership Create.ed Project (2009-2011). She was also Principal Investigator in the Hewlett-Packard Teaching & Learning Innovation Project, Digital Publishing and Virtual Mobility in a Creative Knowledge Network (2006-2008) and a Chief Investigator in the Australasian Cooperative Research Centre for Interaction Design (ACID) Virtual Communities Project (2005-2007).
Barbara de la Harpe (BSc (Hons), Grad Dip Ed, PhD) is Associate Professor and Associate Pro Vice Chancellor (Learning and Teaching) in the College of Design and Social Context at RMIT University in which role she provides academic leadership for educational programs, learning and teaching activities and academic administration - including for programs in the areas of Art, Architecture and Design. Barbara is an established scholar in the areas of area of learning, higher education pedagogy and change management. Over the years she has worked and published extensively in the areas of learning strategies, graduate capabilities, sustainability education, academic professional development and change management in tertiary contexts. She has been involved in the design, development and implementation of numerous large-scale projects and the implementation of systems across institutions. She has experience in curriculum design and development of capability based-curricula, and the evaluation of learning environments. She has developed resources to support learning and skill development. She has contributed to improved understanding of change management and quality improvement in different educational settings.
UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA
Noel Frankham has been Professor of Art and Head of School, Tasmanian School of Art, University of Tasmania, since February 2002. He was Professor and Head of School with the South Australian School of Art, University of South Australia from June 1999 until January 2002. This followed four and a half years as Director of Object – Australian Centre for Craft and Design. Prior to Object, Noel was the Director of the Australia Council’s Visual Arts/Craft Board, May 1989 until September 1994. Noel has been chair of the Australian Council of University Art and Design Schools since 2008.
Noel Frankham’s research interests centre on public art, especially site-specific art and design. He has recently completed an Australia Council-funded exhibition, Trust, in partnership with the National Trust of Australia (Tasmania) for the 2009 Ten Days on the Island Festival. In 2007 he co-curated Port Arthur Project, with Port Arthur Historic Site and Ten Days on the Island. He edited the book, Claiming Ground: twenty-five years of Tasmania’s Art for Public Buildings Scheme in 2005. Frankham and Martin Walch worked throughout 2003 with a team of artists, writers and historians in partnership with the developers, architects, designers and tenants to contribute interpretative art and design to the Henry Jones Art Hotel, the key element in the redevelopment of Hobart’s historic Hunter Island precinct. Noel has undertaken several significant research and review projects for government. Arts SA commissioned Frankham and Dr Gini Lee to review the State’s public art and design program and policy during 2000. Frankham presented a refereed and web-published paper, Attitudes and Trends in Australian Art and Design Schools, within the 2006 Australian Council of University Art and Design Schools’ national conference. The paper raised concerns about the current state of Australian art and design schools with particular reference to risks facing traditional studio teaching. The paper was supported by an informal survey of art schools undertaken in 2005 and 2006.
