Sand Helsel

Emeritus Professor Sand Helsel

Emeritus Professor

Details

  • College: Design and Social Context
  • Department: Design and Social Context
  • Campus: City Campus Australia
  • sand.helsel@rmit.edu.au

Open to

  • Masters Research or PhD student supervision

Supervisor projects

  • Vernacular Toolbox; Strategies for Modernizing Traditional Houses in Rural China
  • 14 Apr 2017
  • Concrete Approximations: Material Responsiveness for an Augmented Experience of Space
  • 5 Aug 2016
  • Through the Looking-Glass A Synthetic Practice Model of Technê and Poïesis in Computer Aided Design and Manufacturing
  • 1 Aug 2016
  • Asia Back Up! Evolutionary planning principles for pressured urban landscapes 
  • 31 Mar 2015
  • Cut - Fold - Hand: Making Fast Architecture in Taipei
  • 27 Aug 2013
  • Insecture: interdisciplinary engagements in an emergent entomological design practice
  • 4 Mar 2013
  • Shaping Macau's Un-purposed Space - Design in Context
  • 4 Mar 2013
  • Re-Programming Infrastructure for Public Space Opportunistic Planning as Urban Strategy for Macau
  • 4 Mar 2013
  • Gardens, A Journey; Show Gardens as Design Laboratories
  • 16 Jul 2012

Teaching interests

Supervisor interests
Interdisciplinary practice (architecture, art, landscape, engineering, urbanism); the collaborative project; land art and minimal art; site analysis and mapping techniques; design methods; design research and educational models; Asian urban design; micro-urbanism; design-based sustainable practice.

Research interests

Architecture, Urban and Regional Planning, Other Built Environment and Design
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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.