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• Designer Curator Strategist Educator Editor Marina’s central inspiration is Community Engagement, such as involvement in indigenous cultural heritage and career development in creative industries. She works with creative people and communities, in..

  Designer Curator Strategist Educator Editor Marina’s central inspiration is Community Engagement, such as involvement in indigenous cultural heritage and career development in creative industries. She works with creative people and communities, in order to strategise new environments and change to help them reach their potential. She has won recognition for teaching excellence at the national level. As practitioner and academic she has worked in Canada, the United Kingdom, Australia, Singapore, Malaysia and Indonesia. Her book 'Life from the Inside: Perspectives on Social Sustainability and Interior Architecture,' eds Dianne Smith, Marina Lommerse, Priya Metcalfe, will be available in July 2011. Marina is an Associate Professor and has been: Managing Director, Marshall Cummings and Associates, now MC / IBI; founding Department Head of Interior Architecture at Curtin University; President of the Interior Design/Interior Architecture Educators Association (IDEA); founding International Director, Interior Architecture offshore programs; and curator of a number of state exhibitions, and of the international exhibition at the Milan ‘Salone Internazionale del Mobile’, showcasing Australian furniture designers. Less

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