Dr. Roger Kemp
Associate Dean, Interior Design
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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roger.kemp@rmit.edu.au
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ORCID:
0000-0001-6675-740X
Open to
- Masters Research or PhD student supervision
About
Dr Roger Kemp is the Associate Dean of Interior Design. Roger's background in commercial and hospitality design has informed his interest in the way in which interiors form a significant spatial and social contribution to the workings of a contemporary city.
He has extensive experience as a leader in design education. He was program director of the Bachelor of Interior Design (Hons) between 2013-2017, Higher Degrees Research Coordinator between 2018-2019 before setting up the Master of Interior Design program at RMIT (2019 – 2022). He has lead workshops in a number of institutions including Konkuk University Seoul, South Korea, La Salle Singapore and RMIT Vietnam. He held the role of Executive Director of the Interior Design/Interior Architecture Educators Association 2014-2018.
The work of roger's active interdisciplinary design research practice, "Making Distance", in collaboration with Anthony Fryatt, has been shown at Australian Centre for the Moving Image (ACMI); Mathaf: Arab Museum of Modern Art, Doha; Brighton University, UK; Form Gallery, State of Design Festival; Bus Projects; forty-five downstairs; Pinup Gallery; Federation Square; Channel 31 and Australian Film, Television, and Radio School (AFTRS).
He has extensive experience as a leader in design education. He was program director of the Bachelor of Interior Design (Hons) between 2013-2017, Higher Degrees Research Coordinator between 2018-2019 before setting up the Master of Interior Design program at RMIT (2019 – 2022). He has lead workshops in a number of institutions including Konkuk University Seoul, South Korea, La Salle Singapore and RMIT Vietnam. He held the role of Executive Director of the Interior Design/Interior Architecture Educators Association 2014-2018.
The work of roger's active interdisciplinary design research practice, "Making Distance", in collaboration with Anthony Fryatt, has been shown at Australian Centre for the Moving Image (ACMI); Mathaf: Arab Museum of Modern Art, Doha; Brighton University, UK; Form Gallery, State of Design Festival; Bus Projects; forty-five downstairs; Pinup Gallery; Federation Square; Channel 31 and Australian Film, Television, and Radio School (AFTRS).
Research fields
- 330108 Interior design
- 330306 Design practice and methods
Supervisor projects
- Care and inclusion in the built environment: Finding the conduit between non-Indigenous Built Environment practitioners and First Nations people and culture
- 30 Jun 2023
- Hybridised Metal Formation
- 18 Apr 2023
- Situational Perspective on Urban Interiority: An Investigation of Public Spaces
- 27 Mar 2023
- Fashion Scavenging: Resurrecting wasted fashion through luxury garment practice
- 21 Feb 2023
- Performing Urban Interior: an exploration into sensory devices
- 16 Dec 2022
- Travelling Ten Thousand Miles: Reflecting on an interior design practice situated in Hong Kong
- 3 Mar 2022
- The Transformation of a Practice in Hong Kong Cinema from Visual Narrative to an Action-Narrative Approach
- 25 Mar 2021
- Olympism and the Metropolis: The Urban Imaginary of Melbourne’s Western Suburbs
- 15 May 2020
- Inhabitation as Spatial Practice: Learning and designing through the lived experience
- 21 Apr 2020
- encountering environments in flux
- 12 Sep 2019
- Moving Experiences: Video Observations of Ho Chi Minh City
- 27 Mar 2019
- Participatory Dialogues with Public Space
- 19 Dec 2018
- Space in transition: an interior practice through media, mediation and motion
- 26 Mar 2018
- The Layered Image: Staging Silent Interior Atmospheres in Light and Darkness
- 2 Jan 2018
Teaching interests
PhD supervisor
Partnered Interior Design Studio leader
Research Strategies Lecturer
Portfolio Lecturer
Research interests
- Design of public, commercial and civic Interiors.
- Material and making led design practices.
- Set design for film and television.
- Scenography and scenographic environments.
- Drawing and visual representation.
- Design curriculum and pedagogy,
