Mel Dodd

Professor Mel Dodd is an architect, educator and academic leader whose underpinning values places creativity at the heart of positive social change, achieving this through transformative education and creative enquiry. As Dean of Monash Art, Design and Architecture, and the Co-Director of Monash Urban Lab, her practice-based research explores innovative socially engaged design and participatory process through strategic partnerships with government, industry and civil society. Her publications include Spatial Practices: Modes of Action and Engagement with the City (Routledge 2019) and Live Projects: Designing with People (RMIT Press, 2012). Mel has been a collaborator with muf architecture/art and was a contributory author to the practice publication This is What We Do: A Muf Manual (Ellipsis, 2002).