Suzie Attiwill

Professor Suzie Attiwill

Professor

Details

Open to

  • Masters Research or PhD student supervision

About

Dr Suzie Attiwill is Professor of Interior Design in the School of Architecture & Urban Design.

Research fields

  • 330108 Interior design
  • 3301 Architecture
  • 36 Creative arts and writing
  • 3601 Art history, theory and criticism

UN sustainable development goals

  • 16 Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions
  • 4 Quality Education
  • 3 Good Health and Well Being
  • 10 Reduced Inequalities

Academic positions

  • Professor of Interior Design
  • RMIT University
  • DSC | School of Architecture and Urban Design
  • Melbourne, Australia
  • 1 Jan 2023 – Present
  • Associate Dean Interior Design
  • RMIT University
  • DSC | School of Architecture and Urban Design
  • Melbourne, Australia
  • 1 Jan 2017 – 31 Dec 2021
  • Deputy Dean Learning & Teaching
  • RMIT University
  • School of Architecture & Design
  • Melbourne, Australia
  • 1 Jan 2013 – 31 Dec 2017

Non-academic positions

  • Independent Practice
  • Self Employed
  • , Australia
  • 1 Jan 1992 – Present

Degrees

  • Ph.D, Architecture and Building
  • RMIT University
  • Australia
  • 2013
  • Bachelor Degree (Honours) Level, Architecture and Urban Environment
  • RMIT University
  • Australia
  • 1992
  • Masters Degree by Research, Architecture and Urban Environment
  • RMIT University
  • Australia
  • 1996
  • Bachelor Degree (Honours) Level, Visual Arts and Crafts
  • University of Melbourne
  • Australia
  • 1984

Supervisor projects

  • Situational Perspective on Urban Interiority: An Investigation of Public Spaces
  • 9 Feb 2024
  • Collaging Speculative Scenarios for Alternative Futures: addressing loneliness and abandonment in architectural design
  • 15 Dec 2023
  • Architectural Interventions (of Exhibitions): Encountering heritage
  • 11 Jan 2023
  • Acting as a Critical Agent in Cultural Institutions in the Field of Architecture and Design to Explore Social Innovation Through Curatorial and Spatial Design.
  • 16 Nov 2022
  • Future Anxieties: XR in Speculative Critical Design
  • 14 Sep 2022
  • Travelling Ten Thousand Miles: Reflecting on an interior design practice situated in Hong Kong
  • 3 Mar 2022
  • Illuminated Virtual: Manifesting Landscape through Virtual Reality Creation
  • 28 Feb 2022
  • encountering environments in flux
  • 12 May 2021
  • Doing the curatorial — Developing new settings for the curatorial in practice
  • 9 Dec 2020
  • Mud: teaching, gardening, making
  • 15 Jul 2020
  • Building Stories: Retelling Pasts and Presents and Building Unpredictable Futures for Stories and Buildings
  • 24 Jun 2020
  • The Museum is not enough. Content and Space.
  • 6 Jun 2020
  • Provisional Creative Infrastructures
  • 6 May 2020
  • Inhabitation as Spatial Practice: Learning and designing through the lived experience
  • 21 Apr 2020
  • Architecturing-with All Creatures: Speculating with Children and Other Creatures for an Ethico-political Environment
  • 25 Mar 2020
  • A Knowing Wrongness: Innovation in Graphic Design through Combinations of Traditional Mastery and Deliberately Unconventional Approaches
  • 18 Mar 2020
  • Animating the Inanimate: Architectural ‘Magicking’ at Work
  • 14 Nov 2019
  • Isomorphism in Communication Design
  • 11 Apr 2019
  • Curating In-Between
  • 30 Aug 2018
  • Dr. Colour; Palette as a platform for a design process
  • 21 Aug 2018
  • Design at Work; Writing the Future
  • 6 Aug 2018
  • Design Process for a Distributed Networked Practice: A Distinctive Approach to Leadership
  • 16 Jul 2018
  • Catseye Bay design Techniques
  • 29 Feb 2016
  • Speaking Dancer In-Residence. Speaking Dancing Residing-In
  • 24 Dec 2015
  • Nurturing Earthly Intimacies: A Fieldwork Practice for Planetary Reparation
  • 1 May 2014
  • interior-painting: composing resonant interior conditions with/in the flow of worldly forces
  • 4 Mar 2013
  • Surface Encounter
  • 2 Mar 2009

Teaching interests

Coordinator and teacher - Creative Practice Research (a Higher Degrees by Research elective)

 

Supervisor interests
Curatorial practice/design-led research foregrounding spatial, temporal, material relations in ecologies of living, inhabitation, subjectivity, learning and creative practice to re-pose concepts of interior and interiority.

Research interests

Interior Design

Concepts of Interior and Interiority

Practice Research

Environments of residential care for young people

Urban interior and interiority

Poststructuralist philosophy

 

 

Initiatives and links

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RMIT University acknowledges the people of the Woi wurrung and Boon wurrung language groups of the eastern Kulin Nation on whose unceded lands we conduct the business of the University. RMIT University respectfully acknowledges their Ancestors and Elders, past and present. RMIT also acknowledges the Traditional Custodians and their Ancestors of the lands and waters across Australia where we conduct our business - Artwork 'Sentient' by Hollie Johnson, Gunaikurnai and Monero Ngarigo.