Laurene Vaughan

Professor Laurene Vaughan

Professor

Details

Open to

  • Masters Research or PhD student supervision

Academic positions

  • Research Director
  • RMIT Europe
  • Barcelona, Spain
  • 2 Sep 2024 – 3 Mar 2025
  • Advisory Board Member
  • HKDI
  • , Hong Kong
  • 8 May 2023 – Present
  • ARC College of Experts
  • Australian Research Council
  • Canberra, Australia
  • 9 Jan 2023 – Present
  • Founding Dean
  • RMIT University
  • School of Design
  • Melbourne, Australia
  • 17 Dec 2018 – 30 Dec 2022

Supervisor projects

  • Decoding Bias in Generative AI: Designing Equitable Algorithmic Systems
  • 23 Jul 2024
  • Executive decisions, business as usual and the polycrisis: A participatory action-research project with executive decision-makers who are innovating the rules of leadership to respond to global crises
  • 28 Jun 2024
  • Building shared meaning Inclusive design at the heart of innovation
  • 26 Jun 2024
  • Uncharted territories between culture, design, and technology: Understanding the relationship between Mexican Culture and Design.
  • 4 Aug 2023
  • Purpose Driven Transdisciplinary Design in Times of Great Turmoil
  • 4 Apr 2023
  • Interactive Materials
  • 8 Mar 2023
  • Simultaneous Interpretation
  • 2 Mar 2023
  • Design of Energy-Conscious Services for Digital Twin-Driven Smart Homes
  • 26 May 2022
  • The Catalogue: Museum Publishing as Social Practice
  • 28 Apr 2021
  • Practise/Practice: walking the path of repetition in a surface pattern design practice
  • 4 Feb 2021
  • Reconstrained Design A Situated Jugaad Practice
  • 18 Dec 2020
  • Expanding Co-design through Cosmovision
  • 18 Feb 2020
  • InWorlding : Narrative and Self in Creative Practice
  • 1 Apr 2019
  • Discovering Duration: An Exploratory Design Practice
  • 1 Apr 2019
  • The Performative Role of Language in Social Design
  • 1 Apr 2019
  • Discontented: Actions and Tactics of a Design Studies Practice
  • 21 Mar 2016
  • On Tradecraft: The Practice of Strategic Design and the Role of Trickster
  • 20 Jul 2015
  • Practising Design in Response to Indigenous Sovereignty: A Narrative of Designing Lawfully on Country
  • 2 Mar 2015
  • Strangely familiar: revisiting graphic designers' perceptions of their relationships with stakeholders
  • 18 Jul 2011
  • Towards a User-Centric Environment for Online Design Teaching
  • 27 Jan 2009

Teaching interests

Supervisor interests
Reflective practice; design practice, design research, design knowledge, practice-based research and pedagogy; space, place, creativity, located practices and new/virtual technologies; phenomenology, the role and construction of individual identity in relation to the previous mentioned areas

Research interests

Design Practice and Management, Film, Television and Digital Media, Architecture, Information Systems, Geomatic Engineering, Human Geography
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Acknowledgement of Country

RMIT University acknowledges the people of the Woi wurrung and Boon wurrung language groups of the eastern Kulin Nation on whose unceded lands we conduct the business of the University. RMIT University respectfully acknowledges their Ancestors and Elders, past and present. RMIT also acknowledges the Traditional Custodians and their Ancestors of the lands and waters across Australia where we conduct our business - Artwork 'Sentient' by Hollie Johnson, Gunaikurnai and Monero Ngarigo.