Curriculum Vitae
Current
Lecturer, School of Design, RMIT University Melbourne, VIC, Australia 2024—
Previous Positions
Assistant Prof. Emily Carr University of Art + Design, Vancouver Canada 2020 – 24
Adjunct Professor, NIAS Consciousness Studies Programme, (NIAS), India, 2022 – 24
Sessional Lecturer, School of Design, RMIT University 2006 – 2019
Faculty of Foundation Design, Tsinghua University, Beijing & RMIT University, Melbourne, September – October 2019 (visiting lecturer)
Member of the Research Ethics Board, Emily Carr University for Art and Design, Vancouver, Canada 2012-2024
Member of Senate, Emily Carr University for Art and Design, Vancouver, Canada 2012-2024
Member of Curriculum Planning and Review Committee, Emily Carr University for Art and Design, Vancouver, Canada 2012-2024
supervision
Supervision of 7 Graduate students: 2020-2024
Internal Examiner for 7 Graduate students, 2020-2024
Supervision 20 Honour’s Projects, Industrial Design, RMIT, 2015-2019
External Reviewer Industrial Design Honours Projects, RMIT University, 2023
External Reviewer 4 Masters Projects, Emily Carr University, 2018
mentorship
Teaching Fellow for Industrial Design Core Studio, INDD 200, Fall 2020
Teaching Assistant for Industrial Design Core Studio, INDD 300, Fall 2020
Teaching Assistant for Industrial Design Core Studio, INDD 200, Fall 2021
awards
Ian Wallace Award for Teaching Excellence, Emily Carr University for Art + Design, Vancouver, Canada, 2024
teaching
from Ibn Al Hytham to Generative AI, Transdisciplinary Studio, 2024
Industrial Design Core Studios for all semesters at Emily Carr, 2020 – 2024
Body Cosmologies: Transdisciplinary Studio, 2022
Writing Seminar for Masters Students, 2020-2023
Foundation Core Intensive: Tsinghua University Beijing, China : 2019
ThingSpeak: Design Studies Course, RMIT University, 2018
Tic-Tac-Toe: Design Methods Course RMIT University, 2018
Herbarium Studio, RMIT University, 2018
Diagramming for Industrial Designers, 2015
Around~Sound Studio, RMIT University, 2015, 2016, 2017
The Happiness Studio, RMIT University, 2013
Digital Rendering Techniques: RMIT University, 2010-2013
Book-Lab Studio, RMIT University, 2012
Table-Table Studio, RMIT University, 2010
Making-Body Studio, Emily Carr University for Art + Design
Sophie Gaur on Teaching Industrial Design for Maternal Health
Around-Sound Studio, 2015. 2016, 2017
writing: book chapter, conference papers, dissertation
The Body as Site: Love and learning in the Industrial Design Studio: Conference Paper, Applying Education in a Complex World, June 2023, Toronto Canada (peer reviewed, accepted for publication in Conference proceedings)
“InWorlding: A Propositional Paradigm for Practice” Book Chapter Making Knowledge: Design Studies Practices in Action, Edited by Dr. Bonne Zabolotney – due for publication Jan 2024, Bloomsbury
‘Design for humanising birth’: Book chapter: in progress: Humanising Birth—Responses to the Global Maternity Crisis. Co-editors: Dr. Elizabeth Newnham, Dr. Kaveri Mayra, Prof. Lois McKellar and Prof Yvonne Kuipers. Springer Nature
The Aesthetic Imperative: Affect, Meaning, Value, and Ethics in the Design Studio. Conference paper submission: (in progress)
conference, and symposia presentations
The Aesthetic Imperative: Affect, Meaning, Value, and Ethics in the Design Studio Teaching Beyond the Curriculum. The Glasgow School of Art, Louisiana State University, Wenzhou-Kean University & AMPS, Nov 15-17, 2023
The Body as Site: Love and learning in the Industrial Design Studio: Applying Education in a Complex World, April 26-28, Toronto Canada, April 2023
The Discursive body: Conversations with the Physical Self, Humanising Medical Humanities, NIAS Consciousness Studies Programme, NIAS, Bangalore, July 28-30, 2022
Conversation Collective //: Building Conversations Across forms and Spaces, NIAS Consciousness Studies Programme, NIAS, Bangalore, July 11, 2022
The Self, and Creative Practice: ‘フリートーク / สนทนา /Conversations: sustaining livelihood and creativity – finding the right balance’, DESIP Project: Northumbria University, RMIT, Bangkok University, and Kanazawa College of Art, June 20, 2022
Situated Actions: Sticks, Ropes, Land, Participatory Design Conference June, 2020.
research projects
Illustrative material interpretation of qualitative research outcome from the RESPCCT study findings, in collaboration with the Birthplace Lab, UBC, BC ~ ongoing
Design, illustration and production of Maternal Health Cloths for Assam, RMIT University, and Enfold India.
Designing Body Cosmologies—a research framework, Conducted through the DESN 350 studio, May 2022 – May 2023 (SSHRC Institutional Grant (SIG) application: Outcome Unsuccessful)
Newbody Language: Designing new vocabularies for the romantic, sensual, sexual, and reproductive body. In collaboration with Australian Poetry, independent Artists and designers: (SSHRC Institutional Grant (SIG) application: Outcome Unsuccessful)
Scientific illustrations for Exergy Analysis a guide to Sustainability published in a the special Issue of the INSEE journal, INSEE Journal Vol. 6(1), 2022
book design practice
Designing the annual publication for Australian Poetry: Best of Australian Poetry (year) for 2021, 2022, and 2023
Design lead for GloriaSMH Press, Australia, 2015 – 2019
Design Consultant for Australian Poetry, 2015 – 2019
Designer: John Leonard Press, 2006 – 2018
creative practice
think~things—daily meditations on a life of practice, making and noticing. Material practice feeding research into the Aesthetic Imperative in design pedagogy.
Weaving Conversations: Conversational Research Project at Emily Carr University Sept 2021-Dec 2022. Self initiated project
Dasa Mahavidya—Yantra as image and sound art. Jan – Dec, ongoing. Self initiated project
‘Home’ material book : Chapter with Elham Etinghi.
Pocket Change Project, Creative collective, Emily Carr, September 2020
talks
Keep Calm and Curry on: Grad Student presentation, ECUAD, 17 Nov, 2022
A Designer’s Story: UID, (Unitedworld Institute of Design), Karnavati University, Gandhinagar India, July 16, 2022
Systems and Service Visualisation, RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia, May 16 2022
Design Stories, RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia, May 9, 2022
“but where’s the design in that?” COMMD students, ECUAD, Nov 5, 2021
Design Adventures: Grad Student Presentation, ECUAD, April 4, 2020
Design research through practice, J D Centre of Art, Bhuvaneshwar, India Dec, 2018
