Dr Louise Dorignon specialises in urban geography and housing studies. Her research focuses on contemporary building practices toward more sustainable and affordable homes, and on everyday experiences of post-carbon housing.
Louise holds a Vice-Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Research Fellowship, currently investigating the implications of a shift to offsite construction for urban apartment housing delivery and consumption using a critical social science approach. Through her recently awarded ARC DECRA project (2025–2028), she expects to document perceptions and attitudes towards housing built offsite, and to generate new knowledge in urban geography, housing and built environment research. She regularly collaborates with various stakeholders, including material manufacturers and builders, architects, developers, policymakers, regulators, and householders in Australia, the EU, the UK, and North America.
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