Curtin DBE

🎓 Join Our Team as a Casual Academic Are you passionate about design, architecture, or the built environment? The School of Design and the Built Environment (DBE) at Curtin University is seeking enthusiastic and experienced practitioners and educators to join our pool of Casual Academics. We’re particularly interested in people who are keen to contribute to teaching, studio delivery, and student learning across our diverse programs. 📋 Register your interest via the link in our bio! We welcome expressions of interest from industry professionals, emerging academics, and those with a passion for teaching in higher education. @curtin.humanities #CurtinUniversity #AcademicJobs #DesignEducation #BuiltEnvironment #HigherEd #TeachingOpportunities#curtindbe

GeoNight 2026 was a huge success! 🌏 This was our sixth annual event and was wonderful to have such a great crowd. Holly Kirk began our evening discussing ‘Planning and Designing for Urban Biodiversity’ and all things urban ecology. 🦋🦎 Bryan Boruff followed Holly’s presentation, speaking on urban canopy and heat island impacts, discussing some amazing technologies to capture urban canopy change. 🏡 🏠 Our GeoNight concluded with our tasting presentation - ‘Geographies of the Soused Seas’ with Chef Sunny de Ocampo! 🐟 🍣 🍱 Sunny brought us on a truly global food journey through this tasting, and with such passion and energy! Thank you to Curtin, GAWA and everyone who joined the evening and helped organise the event! We can’t wait till GeoNight 2027! 🌏

"Lamiae" article published in the latest The Journal of Dreams - Monster issue Creative research informing teaching - latest publication Annette Condello's latest creative research on “Lamiae” in the Monster Issue of The Journal of Dreams is now published: The text/artwork content inspired her current Master of Architectural thesis studio-theme on Repositioning architectural monstrosity. Access this via the link in our bio! @curtin.humanities #curtinuni#curtindbe#curtinuniversity#curtinresearch

As part of the ongoing ArchiTalk series, established and led by Associate Professor Parisa Izadpanahi at Curtin University, we are pleased to welcome Craig Smith, City Architect for the City of Perth. Craig will reflect on two decades of shaping Perth’s urban and architectural landscape, discussing design review, city-making, policy development, and the evolving role of the architect across government, practice, and education. With extensive experience spanning architecture, urban design, public policy, and professional leadership, this will be a valuable conversation for students, academics, and industry practitioners interested in the future of our cities and the role of design in public life. This talk reflects on the transformation of the City of Perth over the past 20 years through the perspective of Craig Smith, City Architect for the City of Perth. The presentation explores architectural leadership in city-making, including pre-submission discussions, design review processes, advising Council and the public, and collaboration on major public and private projects. Craig also discusses policy development, design guides, and speculative urban projects. Alongside his City role, he has maintained a diverse architectural practice and contributed extensively to education, research, and professional leadership through Curtin University, UWA, the Australian Institute of Architects, and State Design Review Panels. Join online via the link in our bio! @curtin.humanities #SchoolDesignandBuiltEnvironment #FacultyofHumanities #CurtinUniversity #Architecture#curtindbe #Education

Future Science Talks: Comedy Edition On Sunday May 3rd two of our DBE staff members, Associate Professor Nasrin Aghamohammadi and Dr Jennifer Lane, took part in 'Future Science Talks: Comedy Edition' as part of Perth Comedy Festival. Their humour, engaging research presentations, and enthusiasm were standout highlights of the evening. Congratulations to everyone who took part. Thank you to Dave Crisante for teaching them the ropes and taking great photographs! #perthcomedyfestival#curtindbe#curtinuni @david_crisant @futuresciencetalks

Calling all Curtin Geography alumni! 🎓 Join us on Wednesday 20 May for an evening of connection, conversation and community. Reconnect with fellow graduates, hear from alumni across a range of industries, and enjoy a relaxed night of food and drinks in Building 418. Register to attend via the link in our bio or the QR code! Registration is essential We look forward to bringing our Geography community together and continuing to grow its future in Western Australia. @curtin.humanities @curtinalumni #curtindbe#curtinevents#curtinuni#curtinuniversity

Last week ARCH1018 students brought Embodying Country to life through a playful, hands-on design challenge, creating wearable picnic devices with a twist. Set on Whadjuk Noongar Country, each group responded to a specific site, designing structures that sit on the body (no hands allowed!) while navigating the dynamics between three very different picnic guests. Using cardboard, skewers, wire, and rubber bands, ideas quickly took shape, balancing, bending, and sometimes wobbling, into imaginative outcomes. From observing light and landscape to testing quirky forms, the studio was full of energy, creativity, and collaboration, captured here through moments of making, experimenting, and fun. @curtin.humanities #curtinstudents#curtinuni#curtindbe#curtinuniversity

GRX 2026 brought together HDR candidates, supervisors and guests for four days of dynamic exchange, showcasing research in progress and sparking conversations that will shape graduate research in DBE for years to come. From the opening keynote and panel with Distinguished Professor Martyn Hook and Professor Lucy Montgomery, through candidate presentations, milestone assessments, workshops and the closing plenary, the program offered a rich and rigorous platform for ideas, reflection and critical dialogue. The DBE Graduate Research Exchange is a biannual forum connecting traditional and practice-based research within a transdisciplinary setting, fostering shared learning and a visible culture of graduate research across the School. A sincere thank you to all our guest speakers, including Dr Shane Gould, Dr Thomas O’Hara, Anthony Coupe and Distinguished Professor Martyn Hook, alongside our academic, professional and technical staff whose work behind the scenes made the event possible. Most importantly, thank you to our doctoral candidates, whose openness and courage in sharing work-in-progress is at the heart of GRX. @curtin.humanities #curtindbe #curtinuniversity #curtindbegrx#curtinstudents#curtinhdr

New DBE Exhibition: (De)compose: Exhumations and Interlacings by Associate Professor Pia Interlandi Pia Interlandi is a walking content warning. Through their creative practice research, Garments for the Grave, Pia designs rituals for facilitating, dressing, and addressing the dead body. Working at the intersections of fashion, funerary practice, and forensics, they explore materials and materiality in relation to dress, death, decomposition, and dispersion. Pia is an Associate Professor of Creative Practice at Curtin University. Unveiled as part of the Graduate Research Exchange, (De)compose brings together two bodies of work spanning fifteen years. Operating as both retrospective and proposition, the exhibition traces how a creative practice begins and unfolds over time. It interlaces Control Garments (2009–2010), developed during Interlandi’s PhD [A]dressing Death: Fashioning Garments for the Grave, with new work from the Textile Decomposition Database (2024–present). Together, these works position the creative practice PhD not as an endpoint, but as a generative foundation—extending into new forms of collaboration, material inquiry, and cultural relevance. The exhibition will be open from April 14th - May 5th, Monday to Friday only 9.00am – 4.00pm, B418, Level 1 – Exhibition Space and Gallery, Curtin University. You can hear more about Pia here: youtube.com/watch?v=jn1KhBmAv-M&embeds_referring_euri=https%3A%2F%2Fresearch.curtin.edu.au%2F&source_ve_path=Mjg2NjY @curtin.humanities #curtindbe#curtinevents#curtinuni#curtinexhibitions

The School of Design and the Built Environment (DBE) Graduate Research Exchange (GRX) The DBE Graduate Research Exchange is a biannual forum that brings together traditional and practice-based research within a transdisciplinary setting. Each GRX features keynote lectures, presentations, panel discussions, and workshops, alongside exhibitions and installations connected to candidate milestones and in-progress talks. The event fosters critical dialogue, shared learning, and a visible culture of graduate research across the School of Design and the Built Environment. The full event program is attached. The GRX offers researchers the opportunity to test ideas, share developing work, receive feedback, and situate their work within wider disciplinary and social conversations. Whether you are a student, researcher, practitioner or member of the public, GRX offers a chance to encounter new ideas, and experience how design and built environment research can shape future communities, practices and ways of thinking. • To register for the Launch event: /graduate-research-exchange... • To register for any one of the workshops or panel discussions: /grx-graduate-research-exchange • To register for the Closing event, ‘Open Plenary Conversation’: /grx-closing-plenary... Registration is essential. Please note that presentations and milestone sessions are open for walk-in attendance. @curtin.humanities #curtindbe#curtinuni#curtinuniversity#curtinevents#curtinresearch

Our Director of CUSP, Associate Professor Jayne Bryant, recently featured on The Future Of podcast in an episode exploring climate anxiety. In the conversation, Jayne shares her journey into sustainability and reflects on her concerns for the future. We encourage you to take a listen here: YouTube: https://lnkd.in/gy374SeR Curtin News: https://lnkd.in/gzgSCihr Spotify: https://lnkd.in/gkyKxJpb Apple Podcasts: https://lnkd.in/gpXzz4mG YouTube: https://lnkd.in/gy374SeR @curtin.humanities #curtindbe#climateanxiety #climatechange #communitycare #socialjustice #sustainability #localmusic #thefutureof #systemsplanning

Calling all Indigenous artists and creative collaborators! 🎨 The Faculty of Humanities at Curtin University is proud to launch the Indigenous Artwork Competition for its third year, as part of our Indigenous Futures Platform. This initiative reflects our ongoing commitment to Indigenising our spaces and fostering a more culturally welcoming and inclusive environment. We’re seeking Indigenous artwork submissions suitable for a large outdoor display to be displayed at our Curtin campus. This is an incredible opportunity to showcase your artistic vision and contribute to a lasting representation of Indigenous culture on campus. Who can enter? 🔹 Current Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students at Curtin University 🔹 Non-Indigenous students partnering with an Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander student, staff, or community member 🗓️ Applications close Wednesday 06 May 2026, 11:59PM. For full competition details and terms, scan the QR code on the flyer or click on the link below or you can also reach out to us for more info at [email protected] Access the full competition details and terms here – /Pages/ResponsePage.aspx?id=1wx0WmhXCU2uE_cGsJ-iLPWgjolyaIFOuPWE_nKAmiRUMFREMVFRNVNCVDlRQUdCR1ZLUU5XODk1OS4u Tag a friend who should enter! 🎨✨