Daria Loi (BArch Hons Politecnico di Milano; PhD RMIT, submitted 2005) has worked as architect/designer and researcher
in Italy (1994-1997). She joined RMIT University (Melbourne, Australia) in 1999, coordinating the Design Studies stream
across the
...MoreDaria Loi (BArch Hons Politecnico di Milano; PhD RMIT, submitted 2005) has worked as architect/designer and researcher
in Italy (1994-1997). She joined RMIT University (Melbourne, Australia) in 1999, coordinating the Design Studies stream
across the undergraduate program and lecturing in design theory, history and methodology. She is currently the
International Coordinator for the same program.
In 1999 she was Research Assistant for an Australian Research Council (ARC) SPIRT project on Urban Telecentres.
Between 1999 and 2001 she has worked as a member of a multidisciplinary research team at the Interactive Information
Institute to develop scenarios and new IT products and services for Telstra Corporation.
In 2001 and 2002, funded by the Australian Federal Government, she has undertaken research in the Creator-2-Consumer
Project for Common Ground Publishing exploring the potential offered by new technologies to the Printing and Publishing
Industries (details at: http://c-2-cproject.com/).
In 2004 she was a Visiting Academic & Researcher at IADE (Instituto de Artes Visuais, Design e Marketing) in Lisbon,
Portugal at the Escola Superior de Design and at the UNIDCOM/IADE research laboratory.
She is currently Senior Research Fellow at the Globalism Institute (RMIT) in an Australian Research Council project titled
Literacy Teaching in the Changing Communications Environment: Reading and Writing Multimodal and Digital texts.
Daria has run workshops and presented her work in Europe, Australia, and the USA. Her practice revolves around:
Participatory Design; HCI; trans- and post-disciplinary research and practice; design of collaborative work environments;
constructivist learning/teaching; Product-Service Systems; and Management Consulting.
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