Dr Mehrnoush Latifi Khorasgani

Biography

Mehrnoush is a lecturer in Architecture at the Swinburne University of Technology. Prior to this she was a lecturer/Industry fellow at the RMIT Master of Design Innovation and Technology (MDIT) and a design studio leader at the Melbourne School of Design.
She is a research practitioner with extensive local and international industry experience in the architecture field. She completed her PhD at RMIT Spatial Information Architecture Laboratory in 2018. Her creative practice, research and teaching spans the fields of architecture, virtual and augmented reality, thermal comfort, microclimate design, and digital fabrication. Her research interests focus on the design with and for microclimates. She explores how the physical and tangible design language of geometry, colour and material are shaping dynamic, and hidden but effective, aspects of design. Mehrnoush has designed a series of smart surfaces using ceramic tiles with unique three-dimensional features, exhibited in various national and international exhibitions such as Embracing Innovation, Craft ACT 2015 and 2016 in Canberra and Dynamics of Air, RMIT Gallery 2018 in Melbourne. She also led multiple workshops at well-known international architectural events and conferences such as CAADRIA 2016 in Melbourne, Smartgeometry 2014 in Hong Kong, and Smartgeometry 2016 in Sweden.