STAFF PROFILE
Dr Roger Kemp
Dr Roger Kemp is the Associate Dean of Interior Design.
Dr Roger Kemp's background in commercial and hospitality design has informed his interest in the way in which interiors form a significant spatial and social contribution to the workings of a contemporary city.
He has extensive education experience in a range of settings in Interior Design. He has lead teaching workshops in a number of institutions including Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) in Doha, Qatar, Konkuk University in Seoul, South Korea, and La Salle in Singapore.
Roger's active interdisciplinary design research practice, "Making Distance", in collaboration with Anthony Fryatt, utilises a range of media including film, installation, exhibition, drawings, models, montage, and text to explore interiors beyond the restrictive parameter of interior space as a condition of the enclosure. His work has been shown at Australian Centre for the Moving Image (ACMI); Mathaf: Arab Museum of Modern Art, Doha; Brighton University, UK; Form Gallery, State of Design Festival; Bus Projects; forty-five downstairs; Pinup Gallery; Federation Square; Channel 31 and Australian Film, Television, and Radio School (AFTRS). It has also been shortlisted for the Australian Interior Design Awards.
- PhD supervisor
- Partnered Interior Design Studio leader
- Research Strategies Lecturer
- Negotiating space: a relational approach to Interior Design
- Looking into looking through: negotiating space an interior practice
- Thesis (M.A.) RMIT University, 2006 (Libraries Australia ID: 40659705, Record ID: NBD40659705)
Membership
- Design Institute of Australia (DIA), Educators Association – 2011 to present.
Awards
- Winner: RMIT University HDR Publication Excellence Prize (College of Design & Social Context). 2014.
- Shortlisted for the Australian Interior Design Awards – Project: 3 Tonne 'o' Space – Category Installation Design. 2009.
- Winner of Category: student centered teaching - Higher Education RMIT University 2001.
Invited talks
- Invited expert and mentor – 'Creating Well-Beings: Night Hack at the Melbourne Museum' - Melbourne Knowledge Week, 6th May 2017.
- Invited Lecture and Laboratory Leader: TASMEEM, Virginia Commonwealth University in Doha, Qatar 10 – 17th March 2013.
- TTP (Time Transcendence Performance) conference, Monash University with Fryatt, A., Rogers, C., Ritchard P., Carlin, D. Floor talk at installation at the Australian Centre for the Moving Image (ACMI) October 3. 2009.
- Invited collaborative design studio ' Projects to Ride' and lecture with Konkuk University GSAK Seoul, South Korea 2009.
- Invited Lecture and Workshop Leader: International Federation of Interior Architects WING Conference, Dongseo University, Busan, Korea July 4 -11 2007.
- Kemp, R.,Fryatt, A.,Whitman, P. (2020). First-Class Final Project In: IE:Studio (Issue # 5 'The First') https://interioreducators.co.uk/the-first
- Fryatt, A.,Kemp, R. (2018). Incomplete devices for interior production In: THE STORIES OF INTERIOR: Multiple Perspectives on Interiority, Depok, Indonesia , 30-31 January 2018
- Kemp, R.,Kilpatrick, R.,Fryatt, A. (2018). The Collective Network City Model In: IE:Studio (Issue #2 Making) https://interioreducators.co.uk/
- Kemp, R.,Fryatt, A.,Collins, K. (2018). Two Way Hinged In: ADR 18 ( 1st Annual Design Research Conference) Sydney, Australia
- Kemp, R.,Fryatt, A. (2014). Quick/Slow Transition In: THISNESS Melbourne, Australia
- Fryatt, A.,Kemp, R. (2013). Making Space: Display Tactics (Lab F Foxtrot) In: Tasmeen Doha Hybrid Making Doha, Qatar
- Fryatt, A.,Kemp, R. (2012). Complexity and Fullness In: IDEA 2012 Exhibition: An Interior Affair Perth, Australia
- Kemp, R. (2011). Negotiating space: an interior practice In: Occupation: Negotiations with Constructed Space, Brighton, UK, 2-4 July, 2009
- Kemp, R.,Fryatt, A. (2011). The Temperature's Rising (series two). Directed by Leo Berkeley In: The Temperature's Rising (series two) Melbourne, Australia
- Kemp, R.,Fryatt, A. (2011). In the Pines. Curated by Joseph Norster In: In the Pines Melbourne, Australia
Note: Supervision projects since 2004
2 PhD Completions and 2 Masters by Research Completions8 PhD Current Supervisions