Rate My Professor Angelique Edmonds

Dr Angelique Edmonds is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Architecture and Built Environment, College of Creative Arts, Design and Humanities at Adelaide University. She holds a PhD in interdisciplinary Cross Cultural Research and a Master of Philosophy in the History and Philosophy of Architecture from Cambridge University, as well as architecture degrees from Kingston University in London and the University of New South Wales in Sydney. In addition to her academic experience, she has worked in design practice, across the arts, and in Australia’s film industry. Her research interests encompass public architecture, fostering agency, participation, and engagement; social sustainability in design, including socially inclusive approaches that engage cross-cultural, intergenerational, and diverse groups; sustainable and ecologically informed design thinking; and design methods that build resilience and respectful relationships.

Edmonds is a recognized expert in social impact design, having delivered continuing professional development seminars to over 1000 architects across 15 cities in Australia and New Zealand in 2014, a podcast series titled Place Agency_ in 2021 exploring design's elevation of social impact, and the presentation Catalysing Social Value in Design in 2023, both recognized as CPD by the Australian Institute of Architects. She has served on the Institute's national Sustainability committee and as a panelist for architecture school accreditation. Previously at UniSA from 2015-2017, she co-led the policy and outreach work package for the Hawke EU Centre for Mobilities, Migrations and Cultural Transformations. As founding Director of the School for Creating Change, she advocates for collaborative engagement processes. Her publications include the book Connecting People, Place & Design (Intellect, UK, 2020; University of Chicago Press), forthcoming journal article Borders as both site and method: temporality, proximity, relatedness and generative social value (Journal of Borderlands Studies, 2025), The cultural policy value of building social connection for new arrivals (International Journal of Cultural Policy, 2021), Supporting social value through the design process (Environment, 2021), and book chapter How do we structure relatedness: differentiated solidarity and the obligations of proximal dwelling (Living Politics in the City, 2023). She has consulted for Australian governments and attracted research income.