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Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Providing project-specific, nuanced and contextualised sustainability, climate-resilient and regenerative design advisory direction for state significant projects across the Development Victoria portfolio. Nature positive and regenerative design focus. First Peoples Partnerships Working Group.

Melbourne, Australia

Working with a talented national team of designers and engineers to deliver projects that ensure best-practice outcomes across all sustainability remits with a focus on ESG, social sustainability, wellbeing, user-comfort and regenerative practices with a high priority on stakeholder engagement, collaboration, communication and building fantastic relationships.Special interest in Biophilic Design, Cultural Responsibility Support & Liaison, application of the Australian Indigenous Design… Show more Working with a talented national team of designers and engineers to deliver projects that ensure best-practice outcomes across all sustainability remits with a focus on ESG, social sustainability, wellbeing, user-comfort and regenerative practices with a high priority on stakeholder engagement, collaboration, communication and building fantastic relationships.Special interest in Biophilic Design, Cultural Responsibility Support & Liaison, application of the Australian Indigenous Design Charter, facilitating ESG Strategy Development and vision setting using participatory co-design and design systems thinking. Show less

Australia

Developing Deakin's net-zero carbon design response to the built environment and embedding regenerative design systems and circular-economy thinking into project delivery and masterplanning to ensure our campuses are climate-ready and achieving Deakin's sustainability commitments. Personal focus on incorporating biophilic design principles, application of the Australian Indigenous Design Charter, enhancing biodiversity and responsible social-cultural outcomes.

Embedding the Deakin-specific Sustainable Built Environment Principles in master planning, design and delivery, future-proofing for climate change adaptation and enhancing biodiversity values by establishing wildlife corridors and increasing tree canopy. The Design and Development team lead the project development, briefing process and stakeholder engagement to ensure Deakin's sustainability targets and commitment to the UN SDG's are achieved.

Waurn Ponds

Developing and integrating the organisations sustainability commitments within operations, built and natural environment. Including environmental sustainable design strategy, sustainable built environment principles, climate change adaptation and biodiversity projects for Deakin University campuses and reporting on the UN Sustainable Development Goals.

Geelong, Australia

Stakeholder management and community engagement role with outcomes in the development of a strategic emissions reduction planning, climate change action, sustainability education, capacity building and supporting community action. Including co-ordinating the Geelong Sustainable Living Festival, the Smarter Homes, Smarter Living program, Armstrong Creek Sustainable House program, the statutory planning ESD pilot and the Future of Housing seminar series,.

Sessional architecture design tutor for Design Studio (across Yr 1-4) subjects in the school of Architecture.Student design critique, mentoring and assessmentGuest lecturer in topics: Permaculture, Sustainability and Architecture and Aid.

Geelong, Victoria, Australia

Self-employed Architect (part-time/ consulting)Residential design- new builds, alterations + additions, renovations and retrofitting for energy efficiency.Strawbale design and building with owner-builder clients and permaculture systems design.Working closely with clients, community and collaborating with like-minded colleagues.

Developing the Borough's carbon-neutral strategy and delivery program for both Council and community. Completing the climate risk assesment for Borough assets and retrofitting plan for emissions reductions. Supporting community action and the plastic-bag free campaign.

Geelong, Victoria, Australia

Client relationship management and briefing, masterplanning, feasibility studies, schematic & design development, project delivery and construction management.As office manager, I was also responsible for staff and project programming across a wide variety of projects from bespoke residential, commercial, medium density and aged-care masterplanning.

Cegrane, Macedonia/ Kosovo Border

Post Kosovo crisis, PRI proposed to Care Int to rehabilitate the refugee camp site into a Permaculture demonstration site to value-add and give back an asset to the host community. The site consisted of on-site water harvesting, orchard, productive landscaping and strawbale education buildings.

Melbourne, Australia

The Regenerative Practitioner

Diploma Of Permaculture, (Architecture, Sustainable Building & Community Development)

Bachelor Of Architecture (Barch) Hons, Architecture

Masters (Industrial Design)

International student exchange program

Bachelor Of Arts - Ba, Architecture And Art History