Mr. Kyle Bush
Details
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College: School of Architecture & Urban Design
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Department: School of AUD
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Campus: City Campus Australia
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kyle.bush@rmit.edu.au
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ORCID:
0000-0003-1234-7733
Open to
- Industry Projects
- Collaborative projects
- Join a web conference as a panellist or speaker
- Mentoring (short-term)
- Teaching provision
About
Kyle is a landscape architectural researcher and educator whose work focuses on post-mining landscapes and communities, and critical design pedagogies. Through a spatial practice centred on co-production and relationality, he has worked collaboratively on projects that engage with the exclusion of various communities from shared processes and narratives, aiming to build capacity and distribute agency during periods of transition.
Kyle’s most significant projects include:
- An emerging vision for post-mining land use: A synthesis of three community deliberations in Australia’s Latrobe Valley published in 2025 with collaborators at Federation University, University of Melbourne and CSIRO
- Landscape Architectural Discourses on Restoration: A Review from Strategic Beautification to Nature-Based Solutions published in 2024 in the Journal of Society and Ecology with a co-author at Nanyang Technological University Singapore
- ‘settlement’? or invasion., a creative work exhibited in the 2022 Thinking into Being: QUT Alumni Triennial at QUT Art Gallery
- Running Interference in Landscapes of Extraction, published in the 2022 edition of Kerb Journal: Power,
- The Void, an industry partnered design studio in collaboration with MLRA and Engie Australia (2021-ongoing)
- the Pedagogies for Future Practice event series in collaboration with RMIT colleague Dr. Alice Lewis (2021-ongoing).
Kyle is a current PhD candidate. Read more about his research here: https://practice-research.com/candidates/kyle-bush
Research fields
- 3301 Architecture
- 330109 Landscape architecture
- 330306 Design practice and methods
- 33 Built environment and design
- 39 Education
- 3303 Design
- 3399 Other built environment and design
- 3901 Curriculum and pedagogy
- 330316 Visual communication design (incl. graphic design)
- 390199 Curriculum and pedagogy not elsewhere classified
UN sustainable development goals
- 10 Reduced Inequalities
- 13 Climate Action
- 11 Sustainable Cities and Communities
- 16 Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions
- 3 Good Health and Well Being
- 8 Decent Work and Economic Growth
- 7 Affordable and Clean Energy
- 5 Gender Equality
- 6 Clean Water and Sanitation
Academic positions
- Lecturer
- RMIT University
- Architecture and Urban Design
- Melbourne, Australia
- 6 Jun 2019 – Present
- Sessional Academic
- RMIT University
- Architecture and Urban Design
- Melbourne, Australia
- 27 Jul 2015 – 6 Jun 2019
- Research Assistant (Office of Urban Transformations Research Lab)
- RMIT University
- Architecture and Urban Design
- Melbourne, Australia
- 1 Jun 2015 – 20 Jan 2017
- Sessional Academic
- The University of Melbourne
- Architecture, Building and Planning
- Melbourne, Australia
- 1 Jul 2013 – 1 Nov 2013
- Sessional Academic
- Queensland University of Technology
- Built Environment and Design
- Brisbane, Australia
- 3 Mar 2008 – 22 Jun 2018
Non-academic positions
- Landscape Architect
- Darebin City Council
- Australia
- 15 Jan 2019 – 27 Jun 2025
- Project Manager
- ReActivate Latrobe Valley
- Latrobe City, Australia
- 23 Jan 2017 – 18 Jan 2019
- Landscape Architecture Intern
- Stoss Landscape Urbanism
- Boston, United States
- 1 Jan 2015 – 1 May 2025
Degrees
- Masters Degree by Coursework, Architecture and Urban Environment
- RMIT University
- Australia
- 2015
- Deemed Equivalent for PhD, Architecture and Urban Environment
- RMIT University
- Australia
- 2023
Teaching interests
Kyle's teaching focuses on topics such as landscape transitions, critical approaches to drawing and dialogue, and methods of co-production that enhance inclusion, learning, and relational practices among students. He has taught across a range of disciplines including landscape architecture, architecture and interior design at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels, at multiple institutions in Australia.
In recent years Kyle has collaborated with industry partners including the Mine Land Rehabilitation Authority (MLRA), Engie Australia, and Energy Australia to deliver undergraduate landscape architectural design studios exploring how the design of public infrastructure might shape post-mining transitions. He has also coordinated a range of courses at RMIT including the Landscape Architecture Lower Pool Studio stream, Landscape Architecture Theoretical Frameworks 3, and Landscape Architecture Design Studio 1.
Research interests
Kyle’s research focuses on post-mining landscapes undergoing transition and critical design pedagogies exploring methods for co-production and place-based relational design practices. Techniques of narrative production through critical mapping, collage/montage, animation, and deliberative dialogues form the basis of his approach.
Kyle has collaborated with industry partners and researchers to address the exclusion of communities from shared processes and narratives during periods of transition, through projects that build capacity and distribute agency. Collaborators have included Federation University, CRC TiME, MPavilion, Melbourne Design Week, QUT Art Gallery, Landscape Australia magazine, the RMIT Design Archives, and colleagues in RMIT Landscape Architecture.
