Dr. Olivia Hamilton
Details
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Department: School of AUD
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Campus: City Campus Australia
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olivia.hamilton@rmit.edu.au
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ORCID:
0000-0002-8612-3233
Open to
- Masters Research or PhD student supervision
About
I am the Associate Dean, Learning and Teaching in the RMIT School of Architecture and Urban Design (AUD), and a Senior Lecturer in Interior Design. My engagement roles include co-leading the Collective is Critical Network, serving as Editor of IDEA Journal, co-leading the AUD Responsible Practice Team, and a Director at Montsalvat Artist Community.
My work centres on commoning and principles of mutuality to foreground meaningful interpersonal and spatial relations within collaborative projects. I work with industry partners, institutional bodies, and interdisciplinary teams to initiate socially engaged creative projects in public spaces, sustained through commoning processes and values. My research interests include design education and pedagogy, creative institutions, health environments, and public space.
I conduct research through design and spatial practice, pedagogy and writing and editing. Since completing my PhD in 2018, I have published and exhibited nationally and internationally.
Research fields
- 330108 Interior design
- 390102 Curriculum and pedagogy theory and development
- 420316 Palliative care
- 330102 Architectural design
Academic positions
- Assoicate Dean of Learning and Teaching
- RMIT University
- AUD
- Melbourne, Australia
- 24 Jun 2024 – 1 Jul 2028
- Senior Lecturer
- RMIT University
- AUD
- Melbourne, Australia
- 1 Jan 2022 – Present
Supervisor projects
- Spatial and architectural adaptations/conversions/subversions that embrace Black Diasporic life
- 22 Jan 2025
- Constellations of Home: A Relational Practice
- 16 Nov 2023
- Nurturing Earthly Intimacies: A Fieldwork Practice for Planetary Reparation
- 30 Sep 2022
- Setting in Motion: Techniques of Administration with the Curatorial across Multiple Scales
- 21 Feb 2022
- Slow building: resisting extractive logics through resourcefulness
- 23 Nov 2021
- The Archaeology of Service Design: How To Unravel, Locate, Surface, and Transmit the Significance and Meaning of Place in a Complex Heritage Setting
- 6 Oct 2021
- Diffracting Construction: A Praxis of Attentiveness to Situated Material Entanglements of Architecture and Construction
- 5 Mar 2020
- A Creaturely Way. Techniques for Growing Ecological Response - Abilities
- 5 Mar 2019
Teaching interests
In my current role as Associate Dean, Learning and Teaching in Architecture and Urban Design, I focus on strengthening the student and staff learning experience across the school while advancing scholarly and publicly engaged research in design education.
Prior to this role, I coordinated the first-year Interior Design program from 2018 to 2021 and led the History and Theory stream from 2022 to 2024. I have also taught across Interior Design studios and communication courses.
My teaching has been recognised with an RMIT Teaching Award in 2020 and a Design and Social Context Teaching Award in 2021 for work that fosters belonging and pedagogical innovation.
I currently supervise five PhD candidates and have supervised three completions.
Research interests
Interior Design, Design Practice, Education, Future Health, Mutuality, Design Pedagogy, Teaching and Learning, Commoning, Socially engaged practice, Public space, Community,
