Professor Laurene Vaughan
Details
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Department: School of Design
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Campus: City Campus Australia
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laurene.vaughan@rmit.edu.au
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ORCID:
0000-0003-2642-9967
Open to
- Masters Research or PhD student supervision
- Collaborative projects
- Mentoring (short-term)
- Membership of an advisory committee
- Industry Projects
About
Laurene Vaughan PhD is Professor of Design at RMIT University. She has held senior leadership positions globally including, Research Director RMIT Europe 2024 - , Australian Research Council College of Experts 2023 - ,Founding Dean of RMIT School of Design 2018-2022 and Nierenberg Chair, Distinguished Professor of Design, at Carnegie Mellon University, 2012 – 2013. Internationally recognised as a leader in interdisciplinary and applied design research. Laurene’s research investigates the interactive and situated nature of cultural production, place, care, and design methods and practices that enable this. Some recent edited collections are Practice Based Design Research, Design as a Practice of Care and The Impact of the PhD on Practice (2017, 2019, 2024 Bloomsbury Academic).
Academic positions
- Director Doctoral Student Experience
- RMIT University
- College of Design and Social Context
- Australia
- 2 Feb 2025 – Present
- Research Director
- RMIT Europe
- Barcelona, Spain
- 2 Sep 2024 – Present
- 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
- Typographic Transcriptions of Jorge Luis Borges's Manuscripts
- 26 Nov 2025
- Investigating and amplifying practices for circular design
- 25 Mar 2025
- POSITIONS / DC4: Prototyping policy options in spaces for experimentation and learning for urban climate transitions
- 21 Mar 2025
- Decoding Bias in Generative AI: Designing Equitable Algorithmic Systems
- 13 Dec 2024
- Interactive Materials
- 22 Aug 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
- Design of Energy-Conscious Services for Digital Twin-Driven Smart Homes
- 19 Apr 2023
- Reconstrained Design A Situated Jugaad Practice
- 18 Dec 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
- The Catalogue: Museum Publishing as Social Practice
- 1 Mar 2017
- 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; transdisciplinary research; design for transitions
