projects
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Educational Tools for the Paediatric Intensive Care Unit Royal Children’s Hospital Melbourne (2023-ongoing)
more information forth-coming, meanwhile listen to the
Podcast 121 on Design Thinking – Pediatric Cardiac Intensive Care Society (USA)
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Olkola Aboriginal Corporation Cape York (2020-ongoing)
Essay in Meanjin, by Uncle Mike Ross
Essay in The Conversation about the collaboration
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Doppelgänger and Zombies David Roche Foundation (2020-2022)
Virtual tour of the exhibition
Fabulations – Ouroboros (2021)
David Roche and his foundation
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Ghost of Grainger Grainger Museum Melbourne (2020-2021)
Interview Cultural Commons / Grainger Museum
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Politics and Utopia in Architecture (2021-2023)
conversation series, online and at NGV Melbourne (2022) and Aalto University Helsinki (2022)
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Voices of Country Ars Electronica (2020)
360 movie on YouTube
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essays
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From Analogue to Virtual: Urban Interiors in the Pandemicene
Bauhaus x Ikea – Legacies of Modernism
On a Field: Undoing. Polarities between Indigenous and Non-indigenous Design Knowledges
The Enduring Impact of the Bauhaus Experiment on Interior Design Education
Private encounters and public occupations: A methodology for the exploration of public
Occupation within Urban Conditions
Atmospheres and occasions of informal urban practice
Langsam durch belebte Strassen gehen und sagen, was man sieht
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bio
Rochus’s work investigates the intersection of art, design, and emerging technologies, exploring how storytelling, and collaboration shape contemporary creative practice. His projects range from collaborations with Indigenous communities, to health environments and education, to artistic experiments. Rochus’s work has been exhibited since 2020 at Ars Electronica, The Grainger Museum, and The David Roche Foundation, Melbourne Design Week, among others. He was the inaugural recipient of the UniSA, SIDA and DRF Curatorial Research Fellowship.
Together with Dr. Peter Raisbeck, Rochus co-convened the online series Politics and Utopia in Architecture (2020–2023), presented in partnership with the National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne Design Week, and Aalto University in Helsinki. Through Studio 40, he fosters design propositions that critically engage with the entanglements of capitalism, climate change, and the Indigenous concept of Country.
Rochus holds a PhD by Creative Works and has taught architecture, interior design, furniture design, and industrial design across multiple institutions. His academic appointments include Professor of Artistic Design at OTH Regensburg, Germany, and Professor of Interior Architecture and Furniture Design at Konstfack – University of Arts, Crafts and Design, Stockholm. He established as its curatorial editor the publisher Art Architecture Design Research (AADR) in 2012, publishing thought provoking artistic, creative and historical research in art, architecture, design and related fields.
Since 2020, he serves as Associate Professor of Architecture and Design and Director of the Advanced Digital Design and Fabrication (ADD+F) research hub at the Melbourne School of Design, University of Melbourne.
contact: rochus.hinkel[at]gmail.com