Mrs. Regine Abos
Details
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College: School of Design
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Department: School of Design
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Campus: City Campus Australia
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regine.abos@rmit.edu.au
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ORCID:
0000-0001-5484-5381
Open to
- Masters Research or PhD student supervision
- Collaborative projects
- Industry Projects
About
Regine Abos is a Melbourne-based designer, educator, and researcher originally from Cebu. For over two decades, she has collaborated with publishers and social innovation organisations across Australia, Europe, and the Asia Pacific. Her practice explores the intersection of analogue objects and information design, reimagining data visualisation through the material, tactile, and cultural possibilities of physical production.
She lectures in data visualisation at RMIT University and coordinates its accelerated Bachelor of Design in Communication Design program in Singapore, delivered in partnership with the Singapore Institute of Management.
Research fields
- 330301 Data visualisation and computational (incl. parametric and generative) design
- 330316 Visual communication design (incl. graphic design)
- 330313 Social design
UN sustainable development goals
- 12 Responsible Consumption and Production
Teaching interests
She teaches Data Visualisation at RMIT University, blending critical design, storytelling, and participatory methods to engage students with data as a social, cultural, and material practice. She also coordinates RMIT’s accelerated Bachelor of Design in Communication Design program in Singapore, delivered in partnership with the Singapore Institute of Management, where she supports emerging designers in developing contextually grounded and socially responsive practices within a fast-paced, transnational learning environment.
Research interests
Her research examines the relational, narrative, and embodied dimensions of data. Working across communication design and socially engaged visualisation, she draws on systems theory, behavioural science, and decolonial perspectives to challenge dominant logics of optimisation and control, proposing instead modes of engagement grounded in ambiguity, interdependence, and care.
