Gene Bawden has over twenty-five years’ experience as a communication designer and design academic. He currently leads the Department of Design at Monash University, where he is a passionate advocate of teaching, design thinking and practice-based research. His research interests combine notions of gendered spatial practices with his communication design expertise, to reveal new ways of imagining interiors that are shared and equitable.
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