John Fien

Professor John Fien

Professor

Details

Open to

  • Masters Research or PhD student supervision

Supervisor projects

  • Influences of effective planning through mediating cultural heritage in creating an inclusive City, A case of Zanzibar City Centre
  • 8 Dec 2022
  • Towards Smart Resilience in Urban Planning and Design: Integrating Smart City Technologies and Urban Resilience Strategies
  • 28 Jun 2022
  • The City of Refuge: Exploring Syrian Refugee Women's Perspectives on Urban Life in European Cities
  • 3 Jun 2022
  • Landscape Urbanism as a Strategy for Disaster Risk Reduction
  • 1 Dec 2021
  • From the Emergency to Resilience through Urban Acupuncture Strategies in Refugee Camps: A Case Study of Za’atari Refugee Camp
  • 6 Jan 2021
  • Resilient ‘Smart Villages’: Exploring the contributions of 'Smart' Frameworks and Strategies to Disaster Resilience and Response in Rural and Regional Australia: A Case Study of GS3
  • 16 Apr 2020
  • Message Stick Protocols: Fostering First Nations’ Cultural Empowerment in the Built Environment
  • 24 Mar 2020
  • Towards Fire-adaptive Communities in Australia: A Framework to Address Rapid and Slow Onset Fire Emergencies into an Uncertain Future
  • 18 Mar 2020
  • Nature-based Alternative-water Treatment Landscapes in New Urban Fringe Development
  • 22 Jan 2019
  • Participation as Inhabitation: Designer-Citizens Negotiating Postdisaster Housing Reconstruction
  • 1 Nov 2018

Teaching interests

Sustainability policy and practice, human dimensions of natural resource management, public participational, education for sustainability, social learning, learning and change.

Research interests

Urban and Regional Planning, Specialist Studies in Education, Curriculum and Pedagogy, Architecture, Business and Management, Political Science
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Acknowledgement of Country

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.