A5021785572- Educational Environments and Student Outcomes
- Architecture and Computational Design
- Facilities and Workplace Management
- Migration, Aging, and Tourism Studies
- Design Education and Practice
- Online and Blended Learning
- Urban Green Space and Health
- 3D Surveying and Cultural Heritage
- Architecture, Art, Education
- BIM and Construction Integration
- Architecture, Design, and Social History
- Higher Education Governance and Development
- Geriatric Care and Nursing Homes
- Aging, Elder Care, and Social Issues
- Building Energy and Comfort Optimization
- Education Systems and Policy
- Urban Design and Spatial Analysis
- Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life
- Outdoor and Experiential Education
- Interdisciplinary Research and Collaboration
- Participatory Visual Research Methods
- Innovative Educational Technologies
- Aging, Health, and Disability
- Sustainable Building Design and Assessment
- Technology Use by Older Adults
The University of Melbourne
2000-2023
The twenty-first century has seen the rapid emergence of wireless broadband and mobile communications devices which are inexorably changing way people communicate, collaborate, create transfer knowledge. Yet many higher education campus learning environments were designed built in nineteenth twentieth centuries prior to networks. Now, new being re-engineered meet these emerging technologies with significant challenges existing pedagogical practices. However, next generation (NGLEs) have not...
Aim: To use Value-Focused Thinking to investigate what is important in the design of inpatient stroke rehabilitation facility buildings. Background: Many patients require a dedicated facility. Rehabilitation facilities are healthcare spaces, but they also learning spaces where practice targeted tasks acquire new skills and reacquire abilities that were compromised as result their stroke. There currently no consensus regarding how could be optimized for patients’ learning. Method: We used...
There is a significant increase in the number of people with dementia, and demand for residential support facilities expected to increase. Providing an appropriate living environment residents which can cater their specific needs crucial. Residential aged care design impact quality life wellbeing residents. In this investigation, three recently constructed dementia Victoria, Australia are selected evaluation. Through fieldwork observation, evaluation space syntax analysis, aim investigation...
This research explored residential aged care (RAC) workplace design features that influence how RAC staff feel valued, productive, safe, like they belong and connected. A secondary aim was to validate emerging themes about with stakeholders.A multistage qualitative study conducted in one facility 100 residents outer metropolitan Melbourne: (i) photo-elicitation - photographs were used prompt discussions staff; (ii) individual interviews directors; (iii) validity testing the advisory...
While relocatable, prefabricated learning environments have formed an important component of school infrastructure in Australia, prefabrication for permanent buildings is a new and emerging field. This review schools timely. In 2017, Australia’s two largest state education departments committed to programs infrastructure. this paper we examine the recent history Australian context internationally. We explore range methods used locally internationally introduce evaluation indicators...
This paper discusses the opportunity afforded by a substantial research grant to examine three aspects of recent school design and learning. First, spaces that support effective learning, second, role building in achieving sustainability, third, pedagogies practices one two. Schools are complex systems which physical environment interacts with pedagogical, socio-cultural, curricular, motivational socio-economic factors as well providing benefits or costs environmental terms. Limiting focus...
In February 2009, the Australian Government announced $16.2b Building Education Revolution (BER) as part of an economic stimulus package. context a global financial crisis, called for ‘shovel ready’ projects requiring state education departments to develop template designs speed delivery process. Three years later, new facilities have been completed in over 1100 government schools Victoria (DEECD, 2012). This article outlines research by interdisciplinary team track early occupation design...
Architectural competitions are powerful strategies for generating visual ideas new futures. Academic research generates knowledge based on rigorous investigations of informed propositions. This paper describes an unusual merging a process with competition using crowdsourcing to leverage knowledge. The Australian Research Council (ARC) is the pre-eminent funding body academic universities across Australia. In 2010 multidisciplinary team, twelve industry partners including six education...
The paper explores the research potential of a multimedia database called 'Simulated Site Visits' to record translation processes which occur between architectural documentation drawings and their built form. This is significant area for research, as computer visualisation transforming design techniques. allows records construction process, normally concealed once building completed be linked other in four dimensional framework. non-linear reading different media, facilitates study links...
Nearly a quarter of million Australia's ageing population live in residential aged care facilities. Given the growing Australia, it is important to understand indoor environmental quality (IEQ) these settings consideration not only measurable IEQ data but also senior occupants' perceived comfort for their health and wellbeing. In this research, facility was selected Victoria, as case study examine relationships across different seasons. monitoring devices were deployed continuous...