Malte Wagenfeld

Dr. Malte Wagenfeld

Senior Lecturer

Details

Open to

  • Masters Research or PhD student supervision

About

Malte Wagenfeld is a Senior Lecturer in the Architecture and Design program at RMIT.

Supervisor projects

  • Exploring the future of Saudi Crafts from tradition to AI
  • 24 Jul 2024
  • Making Empowerment Redesigning makerspaces to support greater diversity of participation.
  • 18 Mar 2024
  • More-Than Friends: Investigating regenerative design methodologies for developing products from self-growing materials
  • 30 Oct 2023
  • Design and the Default Male
  • 19 Oct 2023
  • Sensing Climate for Novel Environmental Experiments
  • 27 Apr 2023
  • Design for Digital-Physical Interaction and Behavior Change for Sustainable Cities
  • 29 Mar 2023
  • Patterns for performance: an approach to enhancing performance via application of deployable surface geometries
  • 22 Jun 2022
  • Slow Data in the Age of Digital Things: Designing Calm Interventions With Electronic Objects
  • 26 May 2020
  • Playtime: Exploring the Sonic Materiality of Urban Atmospheres Through Playful Object Design
  • 4 Sep 2019
  • The Layered Image: Staging Silent Interior Atmospheres in Light and Darkness
  • 7 Aug 2019
  • Humans in the Loop: Incorporating Human Behaviour in Building Performance Simulation
  • 15 Aug 2018
  • Animate Objects: Aesthetics, Encoding and Personalisation – A Guide for Designing Holistic Wearable Technology
  • 1 Mar 2017
  • The Designer-Artisan Dialogue: Establishing the Conditions for an Expanded Design Practice
  • 1 Jun 2016
  • Improvising Polyrhythmic Space: Exploring a Continuum of Musico-Spatial Creative Practice
  • 2 Mar 2015
  • Digital Material Practice: The Agency of Making
  • 22 May 2014
  • Products of Reflection: A practice that discloses the design potential of circumstantial phenomena 
  • 14 Feb 2005

Teaching interests

Design of experiences, Objects, Environments and the role objects, systems and services play in shaping our lived experiences and the world: Air, Interior atmosphere, Sensory design, Perception, Phenomenology, Poetics, Time, Emergencies, Climate change

Research interests

Design Practice and Management, Architecture, Visual Arts and Crafts, Other Built Environment and Design, Other Engineering
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