Dr. Phoebe Whitman
Details
College: School of Architecture & Urban Design
Department: School of AUD
Campus: City Campus Australia
phoebe.whitman@rmit.edu.au
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, responsive and material-led processes, Phoebe engages with diverse sites and interiors, 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
Teaching interests
Taught across the first, second, and third year in Interior Design Studios and Specialisations
Supervised final-year Research Major Projects
Research interests
I am interested in supervising research that explores and foregrounds:
Interior and spatial design
Temporal conditions
Materialities, ephemera and material ecologies
Exhibition design and curatorial approaches
Installation practice
Ecological and more-than-human conditions
Assemblages
Diagrams and diagrammatic techniques
Process-led experimentation
Site repsonsiveness and site determined approaches
