Dr
Nicole Gardner
Lecturer
Research Fields:
Theories of Learning and Pedagogy
Gender Studies
Socio-tech Work Systems
Smart Cities
Methodology Conceptualisation
Dr Nicole Gardner’s teaching and research explores the relationships between contemporary digital culture and design practice from the scale of architectural cyber-physical making systems to smart city strategies. She is an Australian Registered Architect (NSW 7921) with fifteen years project experience in Adelaide, London, and Sydney. Nicole has worked across a broad range of project typologies and scales, including individual and multi-scale residential, education and institutional. Her work on major public transport projects includes the King’s Cross Underground Station Redevelopment, London and, in her role as a Senior Architect with Arup, Sydney, design concepts for the proposed Sydney Metro, and several significant rail projects in NSW. She has undertaken academic research into urban mobility and digital technologies, including the co-authored publication: Infostructure: A Transport Research Project (2010, FreerangePress) and Interchanging: Future designs for responsive transport environments (2014).
Nicole has taught and lectured in architecture, and design theory, at the University of Adelaide, the University of South Australia, and the University of Technology Sydney (UTS). Her doctoral thesis adopted an interdisciplinary method and liminal theory to critique discourses on mobile technologies and public space in the context of urban transformation.
Books
Gardner N; Haeusler M; Mahar B, (eds.), 2014, Interchanging – Future designs for responsive transport environments, Spurbuch,, Bamberg, Germany, http://www.spurbuch.de/en/product-reader-aadr/product/interchanging.html
Gardner N; Haeusler MH; Tomitsch M, 2010, Infostructure: A Transport Research Project, Freerange Press, Christchurch, http://www.projectfreerange.com/freerange-press/infostructure/
Journal articles
Gardner N; Hespanhol L, 2018, ‘SMLXL: Scaling the smart city, from metropolis to individual’, City, Culture and Society, vol. 12, pp. 54-61, 10.1016/j.ccs.2017.06.006
Conference Papers
Bungbrakearti N; Cooper-Wooley B; Odolphi J; Doherty B; Fabbri A; Gardner N; Haeusler M, 2018, ‘HOLOSYNC: A Comparative Study on Mixed Reality and Contemporary Communication Methods in a Building Design Context’, in Fukuda T; Huang W; Janssen P; Crolla K; Alhadidi S (eds.), HOLOSYNC: A Comparative Study on Mixed Reality and Contemporary Communication Methods in a Building Design Context, Learning, Adapting and Prototyping – Proceedings of the 23rd CAADRIA Conference, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, presented at Learning, Adapting and Prototyping – Proceedings of the 23rd CAADRIA Conference, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, 17 – 19 May 2018
Leung E; Asher R; Butler A; Doherty B; Fabbri A; Gardner N; Haeusler M, 2018, ‘Redback BIM: Developing ‘De-Localised’ Open-Source Architecture-Centric Tools’, in Fukuda T; Huang W; Janssen P; Crolla K; Alhadidi S (eds.), Redback BIM: Developing ‘De-Localised’ Open-Source Architecture-Centric Tools, Learning, Adapting and Prototyping – Proceedings of the 23rd CAADRIA Conference, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, pp. 21-30, presented at Learning, Adapting and Prototyping – Proceedings of the 23rd CAADRIA Conference, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, 17 – 19 May 2018
Hawton D; Cooper-Wooley B; Odolphi J; Doherty B; Fabbri A; Gardner N; Haeusler M, 2018, ‘Shared Immersive Environments for Parametric Model Manipulation: Evaluating a Workflow for Parametric Model Manipulation from Within Immersive Virtual Environments’, in Shared Immersive Environments for Parametric Model Manipulation: Evaluating a Workflow for Parametric Model Manipulation from Within Immersive Virtual Environments, Learning, Adapting and Prototyping – Proceedings of the 23rd CAADRIA Conference, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, presented at Learning, Adapting and Prototyping – Proceedings of the 23rd CAADRIA Conference, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, 17 – 19 May 2018
Khean N; Kim L; Martinez J; Doherty B; Fabbri A; Gardner N; Haeusler M, 2018, ‘The Introspection of Deep Neural Networks Towards Illuminating the Black Box: Training Architects Machine Learning via Grasshopper Definitions’, in The Introspection of Deep Neural Networks Towards Illuminating the Black Box: Training Architects Machine Learning via Grasshopper Definitions, Learning, Adapting and Prototyping – Proceedings of the 23rd CAADRIA Conference, Tsinghua University, Beijing, presented at Learning, Adapting and Prototyping – Proceedings of the 23rd CAADRIA Conference, Tsinghua University, Beijing, 17 – 19 May 2018
Gardner NL; Hespanhol L, 2016, ‘SMLXL: Thinking between scales and designing with data for smarter cities’, in Proceedings of the AASA 2016 9th International Conference Project to Practice: Innovating Architecture, Project to Practice:Innovating Architecture AASA 9th International Conference, University of Technology Sydney, presented at Project to Practice:Innovating Architecture AASA 9th International Conference, University of Technology Sydney, 30 September – 01 October 2016
Gardner NL; Harfield S, 2014, ‘Great Expectations: Mobilising histories and transforming the city through mobile technology practices’, in Gjerde M; Petrović E (eds.), UHPH_14: Landscapes and ecologies of urban and planning history, Proceedings of the 12th conference of the Australasian Urban History / Planning History Group, UHPH_14: Landscapes and ecologies of urban and planning history, Wellington, NZ, presented at UHPH_14: Landscapes and ecologies of urban and planning history, Wellington, NZ, 02 – 05 February 2014
Haeusler MH; Gardner N; Mahar B, 2014, ‘Interchanging: Responsive transport infrastructures for twenty-first century urban digital culture’, in Interchanging: Responsive transport infrastructures for twenty-first century urban digital culture, Proceedings of the 7th International Urban Design Conference: Designing Productive Cities – 2014, Adelaide, Australia, presented at Proceedings of the 7th International Urban Design Conference: Designing Productive Cities – 2014, Adelaide, Australia, 01 – 03 September 2014
Haeusler MH; Tomitsch M; Gardner N; Barker T, 2011, ‘Infostructures – Embedding Media Facades in Public Transport’, in CHI2011 Computer Human Interaction Conference 2011, CHI2011 Computer Human Interaction Conference 2011, Vancover, presented at CHI2011 Computer Human Interaction Conference 2011, Vancover, 07 – 12 May 2011
Barker T; Gardner N; Haeusler MH; Tomitsch M, 2011, ‘Last train to trancentral: From infrastructure to ‘info’structure – A case study of embedding digital technology into existing public transport infrastructures’, in Circuit Bending, Breaking and Mending – Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Computer-Aided Architectural Design Research in Asia, CAADRIA 2011, pp. 335-344