Dr. Phoebe Whitman
Details
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Department: School of AUD
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Campus: City Campus Australia
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phoebe.whitman@rmit.edu.au
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ORCID:
0000-0003-3888-4983
Open to
- Masters Research or PhD student supervision
About
Dr Phoebe Whitman is a senior lecturer and program manager of the Bachelor of Interior Design (Honours) program at the School of Architecture and Urban Design.
Phoebe's creative practice research unfolds through interventions, exhibitions and teaching. Her work explores how surfaces are dynamic sites where human and more-than-human forces converge. Through open-ended, emergent processes shaped by the agencies of both organic and non-organic conditions, she engages with interiors and materiality, bringing attention to temporalities and a world of forces.
Phoebe completed a BA in Fine Art Painting (Honours) (1999) and a BD in Interior Design (Honours) (2005) at RMIT University. She completed her Doctorate by Research PhD 'Surface Encounter' (2021).
Phoebe is the executive director of IDEA–Interior Design, Interior Architecture Educators Association of Australia and New Zealand, where she continues to make significant contributions to the field of interior design education.
Supervisor projects
- EXPLORING A NOVEL APPROACH TO URBAN CARE: (CO)CURATING AS AN EMERGING URBAN PRACTICE
- 7 Aug 2025
- now-here, no-where: other temporalities as design practice
- 14 Jan 2025
- Performing Interior: wearable sensation
- 1 Mar 2023
Research interests
Research and practice that explores and foregrounds
Interior and spatial design
Temporal, spatial, material conditions.
Material ecologies
Exhibition design and curatorial approaches
Installation practice
Ecological and more-than-human conditions
Assemblage
Diagrams and diagrammatic
Process-led experimentation
Site repsonsiveness and site determined approaches
