Cathy Smith

As a registered architect, interior designer and academic with international and local experience, Cathy operates at the nexus of research and industry. She particularly enjoys complex urban problems involving competing stakeholder perspectives, and helping her research partners identify project drivers. With particular interests in temporary urbanism, creative placemaking, DIY procurement and urban renewal, she is committed to issues of equity in the built environment and its associated educational processes. Cathy was a Richard Rogers Fellow (Harvard University GSD, Fall 2018) and the inaugural Turnbull Foundation Women in the Built Environment scholar (UNSW, 2018-2021). Her scholarly research on Meanwhile Use in vacant or underutilized properties, Valuing Creative Placemaking, DIY architecture and DIY urbanism have been widely published as book chapters and in international journals including Australian Feminist Studies, the Journal of Place Management and Development, Architectural Histories, Interstices, Architectural Theory Review, IDEA and Design Ecologies.

Education

• Doctor of Philosophy - PhD University of Sydney (2009 — 2012)

Companies

• Panel Member and Assessor (Overseas Qualifications) Architects Accreditation Council of Australia (2019)
• Senior Lecturer Interior Architecture UNSW (2019)
• Inaugural Turnbull Foundation Women in Built Environment scholar, UNSW UNSW (2017)
• Visiting Professor Carleton University (2019 — 2020)
• Visiting Professor Carleton University (2018 — 2019)
• Richard Rogers Fellow (Fall 2018) Harvard University Graduate School of Design (2018 — 2018)
• Architect Anna O’Gorman architect (2018 — 2018)
• Senior Lecturer in Architecture University of Newcastle (2013 — 2018)
• Lecturer in Architecture The University of Queensland (2008 — 2013)

Book Chapters

Smith C; Ware S, 2018, 'Out (fit) ting the City: Care and Contribution in Post-Industrial Newcastle, Australia', in Designing a City of Care, Bloomsbury Publishing, pp. 93 - 110

Smith C, 2018, 'Renew (ing) Newcastle and complicating capitalism: contributory economies, artisanal production, and the DIY occupation of disused commercial space', in Subverting Consumerism, Routledge, pp. 105 - 122

Smith C, 2018, 'The Do-It-Your(self): The Construction of Social Identity Through DIY Architecture and Urbanism', in The Routledge Companion to Architecture and Social Engagement, Routledge, pp. 243 - 256

Smith C, 2012, 'Remembering in Red', in Semi-Detached: Writing, Representation and Criticism in Architecture, Uro Media, pp. 152 - 159

Smith C, 2011, 'Cathy Smith, Inflatables Illustrated, PhD Research', in Amaze 2011; Annual Architecture Catalogue, Faculty of Architecture, Design and Planning, University of Sydney, pp. 40 - 40

Smith C, 2005, 'The ’spectacular everyday’: experimental making and living', in Absolutely Public: Crossover: Art and Architecture, Mulgrave, pp. 56 - 59