Professor Sand Helsel

Position

Deputy Dean International

School /
Work Unit

Architecture & Design

Contact Details

+(61 3) 9925 2716

sand.helsel@rmit.edu.au

Location

Building: 8
Level: 12
Room: 23

City Campus

College/Portfolio

Design & Social Context

 

Key activities

Professor of Architectural Design

Research Stream and Coordinator: Expanded Field

Program responsibilities

Director International Development, School of Architecture and Design; Chair of International Committee. Director of Teaching and Learning: Lower Pool Design. Curator Asian Architecture and Urbanism.

Director, X_Field post-graduate stream

Industry experience

Community involvement

2009 PhD examiner: University of Hong Kong

2009 PhD examiner: University of New South Wales

2008 –10 External Examiner, Singapore Polytechnic: international academic

2008 Invited critic: Singapore Polytechnic; Melbourne University Masters of Urban Design KLDF 08

2008 Kuala Lumpur Design Forum, PAM [Malaysian Institute of Architects]

2008 Convention, Kuala Lumpur Conference Centre Malaysia, 3 July 2008: moderator

2008 “AAAsia Workshop: Asian Modernity”, Tamkang University, Tamshui, Taiwan, 27 Oct, 2008: panellist

2004 –07 Adjunct Professor, Charles Sturt University, School of Visual and Performing Arts, Wagga Wagga, NSW

2006 Interstate juror: RAIA Bronze Medal; Mirvac Medal: RAIA NSW student awards

2006 International Experts Board member Iakov Chernikhov International Prize

Awards and achievements

Veski Award $20,000: X_Field exhibition

Australia Korea Foundation (AKF) grant: $8,000: X_Field exhibition: Seoul

SRC grant $12,500: X-Filed exhibition

Design Research Institute grant: $12,500: X_Field exhibition

Major collections (2008): 11 No. artists books, published books and projects purchased for the archive of the Center for Design and Environment, Nevada Museum of Art

Major collections (2009): Helsel, S. (2009). A Search for Common Pleasures: Curating the City. Melbourne: self-published PhD: included in the archive of the Center for Design and Environment, Nevada Museum of Art.

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