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Dolly Daou |
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Lecturer, Interior Design |
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PhD candidate in architecture and urban design, 2011. University of South Australia
Bachelor of Interior Design, 1999. University of South Australia
Dolly Daou is a lecturer and discipline course coordinator for Interior Design.
She has a Bachelor of Design from the University of South Australia, where she is currently undertaking a Doctorate in Architecture and Urban Design.
In addition to a teaching and research, Ms Daou has worked in interior design practices and conducted projects, nationally and internationally in exhibition, furniture, retail and branding, institutional, residential, and stage set design.
Ms Daou speaks French, English, and Arabic.
In 2010 Ms Daou lived in Paris for nine months where she spent her days conducting and collecting information for her research from the library archives of the University of Sorbonne Paris IV, Bibliothèque Nationale de France and l’Institut du Monde Arabe. She is particularly interested in the writings of Jacques Derrida, Brian Massumi, Lebbeus Woods, Henri Lefebvre, Eyal Weizman, Paul Virilio and Italo Calvino
Research Focus
Ms Daou’s Doctorate is titled ‘Beirut: the Absent Vision’ and examines the historical and current relationship between urban boundaries war and the city.
This research examines the effect of war and violence on cities, on people's memories, and the everyday. Ms Daou compares the war, reconstruction, and urban division experiences of three war-torn cities: Berlin, Sarajevo and Beirut. This research project explores the transformation in the interpretation of the definition urban boundaries and urbanity and examines the contemporary urban divisions of cities and city conflict.