School of Architecture

Dr Liz Brogden

Lecturer in Design (Built Environme
School of Architecture
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Researcher biography

Dr Liz Brogden works to advance climate action in architecture, focusing on the role of architecture education within sector-scale sustainability transitions. She believes that education research is needed to develop climate literacy in architecture, not only through university program development but also to inform degree accreditation standards, pathways to registration as an architect, and continuing professional development requirements.

Liz has coordinated university programs that focus on climate and sustainability from undergraduate through to postgraduate levels, and across multiple design disciplines. She has received two Vice Chancellor Awards at QUT for teaching excellence and was on the winning team for the overall 2021 Global Education Award given by QS Reimagine Education. Now at The University of Queensland, she is working in the School of Architecture to develop one of Australia's first mandatory courses focusing on climate change within a Master of Architecture degree, to be implemented from 2023.

Publications

Book Chapters (2)
Journal Articles (3)
Conference Papers (5)
Newspaper Article (1)
Thesis (1)
Design (1)
Research Reports (3)

Book Chapters

Brogden, Liz and Volz, Kirsty (2023). Developing climatic design guidelines for Australia’s growing regional centres: proposing an interdisciplinary, place-based methodology. Place-based sustainability: research and design extending pathways for ecological stewardship. (pp. 108-129) edited by Jason Montgomery. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
Brogden, Liz and Kennedy, Rosemary (2021). A humanitarian shelter terminology framework. Enhancing disaster preparedness: from humanitarian architecture to community resilience. (pp. 3-22) edited by A. Nuno Martins, Mahmood Fayazi, Faten Kikano and Liliane Hobeica. Oxford, United Kingdom: Elsevier. doi: 10.1016/b978-0-12-819078-4.00001-0

Journal Articles

Esperdy, Gabrielle, Stead, Naomi, Brogden, Liz, Cuéllar, Gabriel, Hwang, Joyce, Heymann, David, Sutton, Sharon Egretta, López, Monxo, Masoud, Fadi, Hanna E. Morris, Johan Pries, CL Bohannon, Rob Holmes and Thaïsa Way (2022). Field notes on design activism: 3. Places Journal.
Brogden, Liz, Bernie, Desmond, Boston, Megan, Forster, Alan M., Galbrun, Laurent, Hepburn, Leigh-Anne, Lawanson, Taibat and Morkel, Jolanda (2022). A learning design framework for community resilience: international and transdisciplinary perspectives on a boundary object. International Journal of Educational Research Open, 3 100200, 1-8. doi: 10.1016/j.ijedro.2022.100200
Brophy, Claire, Stewart, Cori, Caldwell, Glenda, Donovan, Jared, Fialho Teixeira, Müge Belek, Dedehayir, Ozgur and Brogden, Liz (2020). Designing an open innovation orchestrator: the case of Australia’s Advanced Robotics for Manufacturing (ARM) hub. CERN IdeaSquare Journal of Experimental Innovation (CIJ), 4 (1), 16-22. doi: 10.23726/cij.2020.949

Conference Papers

Brogden, Liz and Volz, Kirsty (2021). Searching for “Goldilocks” (Just Right!): Interdisciplinary approaches to defining the regional climate character of cities. Architecture Media Politics Society, New York / Online, 16-18 June 2021. City Tech - CUNY:
Caldwell, Glenda, Donovan, Jared, Teixeira, Müge Fialho Leandro Alves and Brogden, Liz (2019). From open innovation to design-led manufacturing: Cases of Australian art and architecture. Annual Design Research Conference, Melbourne, VIC, Australia, 3-4 October 2019. Melbourne, Victoria: Monash University Caulfield.
Brogden, Liz (2019). Sustainability, design futuring, and the process of shelter and settlements. 8th I-Rec Conference on Reconstruction and Recovery for Displaced Populations and Refugees, Toronto, Canada, 1-2 June 2017. Cham, Switzerland: Springer International . doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-92498-4_1
Brogden, Liz and Kennedy, Rosemary (2018). Building Strong Foundations: a shelter terminology framework for humanitarian architecture. International Conference on Building Resilience, Lisbon, Portugal, 14-16 November 2018. Lisbon, Portugal:
Brogden, Liz (2017). Sustainable futures and the process of shelter and settlement: a design theory perspective. 2017 i-Rec Conference on Disaster Recovery and Reconstruction for Refugees and Displaced Population, Toronto, Canada, 1-2 June. Toronto, ON, Canada:

Newspaper Article

Brogden, Liz, Stead, Naomi, Oldfield, Philip, Knapp, Chris and Reinhardt, Dagmar (2022, 08 01). A watershed moment: architecture education and climate change Architecture Australia 60-61.

Thesis

Brogden, Liz (2020). From product to process and site to system: disaster resilience and humanitarian design in architecture education. PhD Thesis, School of Design , Queensland University of Technology . doi: 10.5204/thesis.eprints.202988

Design

Illuk, Alexandra, Brogden, Liz, Hughes, Markos, Kennedy, Clare Elizabeth and McCarthy, Nicholas (2018). Wildfire grounded futures.

Research Reports

Volz, Kirsty, Kennedy, Rosemary, Brogden, Liz, Bebbington, Jade, Pham, Kieu, Palmer, Jennifer, Christa Pudmenzky, Johnston, Lindy, Zemek, Tonia and Ison, Hannah (2022). Toowoomba Region Design: Warm Temperate Climate Building Design Guidelines. Toowoomba, QLD Australia: Toowoomba Regional Council.
Brogden, Liz , Iftikhar, Naima, Oldfield, Philip, Stead, Naomi, Kessler, Charlotte, Knapp, Chris and Reinhardt, Dagmar (2022). Climate literacy and action in architecture education: Australasian perspectives. Melbourne, VIC, Australia: Association of Architecture Schools of Australasia.
Ross Donaldson, Liz Brogden, Jeremy McLeod and Bronwen Holland (2020). C-CAP: Coordinated Climate Action Plan: Report to National Council of The Australian Institute of Architects. Australia: Unpublished.