Dr. Olivia Hamilton
Details
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College: School of AUD
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Department: School of AUD
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Campus: City Campus Australia
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olivia.hamilton@rmit.edu.au
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ORCID: 0000-0002-8612-3233
Open to
- Masters Research or PhD student supervision
About
Olivia Hamilton is the Associate Dean, Learning & Teaching, RMIT School of Architecture & Urban Design (AUD) and a Senior Lecture in Interior Design. She is a co-leader of the Collective is Critical Network, Editor of Idea Journal and co-chair for the AUD Responsible Practice Committee.
Olivia uses commoning and principles of mutuality to centralise meaningful interpersonal relations and the production of care in collaborative projects. Her praxis involves working with industry partners, internal bodies and across disciplines to initiate socially engaged creative works situated in public space and maintained or developed through commoning processes and values.
Olivia conducts her research through design and spatial practice, design pedagogy, editing and writing. She has published and exhibited in Australia and internationally since finishing her PhD in 2018.
Research fields
- 330108 Interior design
Academic positions
- Assoicate Dean of Learning and Teaching
- RMIT University
- AUD
- Melbourne, Australia
- 24 Jun 2024 – 1 Jul 2026
- Senior Lecturer
- RMIT University
- AUD
- Melbourne, Australia
- 1 Jan 2022 – Present
- Lecturer
- RMIT University
- Melbourne, Australia
- 1 Jan 2018 – 1 Jan 2022
- Associate Lecturer
- RMIT University
- AUD
- Melbourne, Australia
- 26 Jan 2016 – 1 Jan 2018
Degrees
- Doctorate Research, Education
- RMIT University
- Australia
- 2010
Supervisor projects
- Collaging Speculative Scenarios for Alternative Futures: addressing loneliness and abandonment in architectural design
- 15 Dec 2023
- Making Home. Narratives of Home and Belonging in a Global Afro-Diaspora
- 16 Nov 2023
- Nurturing Earthly Intimacies: A Fieldwork Practice for Planetary Reparation
- 30 Sep 2022
- Doing the curatorial — Developing new settings for the curatorial in practice
- 21 Feb 2022
- Building community; setting in motion relationships of care with building processes
- 23 Nov 2021
- The Archaeology of Service Design: How To Unravel, Locate, Surface, and Transmit the Significance and Meaning of Place in a Complex Heritage Setting
- 6 Oct 2021
- Participatory Dialogues with Public Space
- 20 Nov 2020
- The Layered Image: Staging Silent Interior Atmospheres in Light and Darkness
- 2 Apr 2020
- Diffracting Construction: A Praxis of Attentiveness to Situated Material Entanglements of Architecture and Construction
- 5 Mar 2020
- A Creaturely Way. Techniques for Growing Ecological Response - Abilities
- 5 Mar 2019
Teaching interests
Olivia Hamilton is the Associate Dean of Learning and Teaching in Architecture and Urban Design (AUD) and a Senior Lecture in Interior Design. She coordinated first year Interior Design from 2018-2021 and the History Theory stream from 2022-2024. Olivia was awarded an RMIT teaching award in 2020 and Design and Social Context teaching award in 2021 for projects that exemplify belonging and innovative teaching.
She is currently supervising 5 PhD candidates and has had 3 completions.
Research interests
Interior Design, Design Practice, Education, Future Health, Mutuality, Design Pedagogy, Teaching and Learning, Commoning, Socially engaged practice, Public space, Community,
