Staff Profiles

Areas of Expertise

Architectural Practice, Design History/Theory, Design Education.

Teaching Areas

First Year Studio Subjects, Design Environments, Design Theory.

Current Research Activity

Carol Longbottom is interested in looking at ways in which the relationships between design practice and theory can be explored and the power and significance of historical precedents when considering solutions to contemporary design problems and ways in which those ideas may be represented.

Carol's current research project, coming out of a John Yu Fellowship, is entitled Theorizing Practice: Educating Undergraduate Design Students for Critical Understanding of Contemporary Design Practice.

This research represents a preliminary engagement with colleagues at the University of Rome and is designed to initiate research into a case which demonstrates the integration of theory courses and design studio within a design program. Carol is also investigating the possibility of modelling teaching design theory as a studio related activity and developing appropriate methodologies to aid the emerging design professional. Methods will include investigating ways of developing analytical, perceptual and graphic skills and of understanding concepts and principles in design by way of analysis and comparison using historical contemporary models.

Exhibitions

Group Exhibitions

2003, Outside In. Ivan Dougherty Gallery, Sydney, NSW.

1999, Shifting Currents. Ivan Dougherty Gallery, Sydney, NSW.

Grants

John Yu Fellowship, Fellowship undertaken at the Faculty of Architecture, University of Rome, La Sapienza. (October - December 2005),

Innovative Teaching and Educational Technology Fellowships , A Brave new World: Defining the Relationship between Practice and Learning Experience in the First Year Design Education. (Session 2, 2003),

PVC Education, UNSW (Sydney, Australia), Innovation and Enhancement Of Student Learning In First Year. (Session 1, 2002),