Doctor Jonathon Allen

DAP - DESIGN (VISCOM),
Design (SoHCA)

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR,
Design (SoHCA)

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Contact
Biography
Publications
Research
Supervision
Teaching

Personal

Qualifications

PhD Loughborough University of Technology

UWS Organisational Unit (School / Division)

Design (SoHCA)
Design (SoHCA)

Professional Memberships

Design Research Society (1999-01-01)

Contact

Email:	J.Allen@uws.edu.au
Extension:	5434
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Location:	BB.1.23 Penrith (Werrington South)
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Biography

Jonathon Allen is the Director of Academic Program for Design within the School of Humanities and Communication Arts, and Provost of Penrith Campus at the University of Western Sydney. He has over 15 years’ university teaching and academic administration and leadership experience and has supervised many international award-winning students. From 2008-2010 he was Associate Head of School (Industrial Design) in the School of Engineering at the UWS, and has previously lectured at Loughborough University, UK, Massey University, NZ, and Monash University.

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Awards

Highly Commended in the RSA Student Design Awards, UK 1993-03-01

Committees

School Executive

Teaching

Previous Teaching Areas

100947 Design Thinking, 2012
101020 Design Research Training, 2012
101418 Major Research Project, 2012

Publications

Chapters in Books

Allen, J. (2012), 'Changing the Fabric of Society: An Exploration of Smart Textiles in Product Design', Smart Design: First International Conference Proceedings, Springer-Verlag 9781447129745.
Allen, J. and Kouppas, P. (2012), 'Computer-Aided Design: Past, Present, Future', Design and Designing: A Critical Introduction, Berg 9781847885777.
Allen, J. (2012), 'Changing the fabric of society : an exploration of smart textiles in product design', Smart Design : First International Conference Proceedings, Springer-Verlag 9781447129745.
Allen, J. and Kouppas, P. (2012), 'Computer-aided design : past, present, future', Design and Designing : A Critical Introduction, Berg 9781847885777.
Allen, J. and Currie, G. (2007), 'Australians with disabilities: Transport disadvantage and disability', No Way to Go - Transport and Social Disadvantage in Australian Communities, Monash ePress 9780980361629.
Allen, J. (2004), 'Beyond Functionality - Product Semantics in Assistive Device Design', Designing a More Inclusive World, Springer 1852338199.

Journal Articles

Allen, J., Andrews, T. and Lopes, A. (2012), 'Industrial Design is Dead. Long Live Industrial Design: Adapting Industrial Design Curricula in Response to a Climate-Changed Future and the Current University Environment', Industrial Design Educators Network Journal, 8.
Allen, J. and Andrews, T. (2012), 'Industrial design is dead. Long live industrial design : adapting industrial design curricula in response to a climate-changed future and the current university climate', Industrial Design Educators Network Journal, 8.
Allen, J. (2005), 'Designing desirability in an Augmentative and Alternative Communication device', Universal Access in the Information Society Journal, 11.

Conference Papers

Huda, S., Campbell, S., Allen, J., Sinclair, C., Andrews, T., Lopes, A., Duarte, F., Bambrick, H., Craig, D. and Jeffery, M. (2010), 'Climate Change: Building Leadership Capacity within a Higher Education Institution', International Farming Systems Association Europe Group Conference, Vienna.
Andrews, T., Lopes, A. and Allen, J. (2010), 'Design and the University: a partnership for sustainable design', CONNECTED 2010, UNSW, Sydney.
Allen, J., Lopes, A. and Andrews, T. (2009), 'Futures West: A Design Research Initiative Promoting Sustainable Futures for Western Sydney', Cumulus 38? South 2009: Hemispheric Shifts Across Learning, Teaching and research, Melbourne, Australia.
Allen, J., Coxon, S., Richardson, M. and De Bono, A. (2007), 'Public transport design research initiative', ConnectED 2007 ? International Conference on Design Education, Australia.
Allen, J., Coxon, S., De Bono, A. and Richardson, M. (2007), 'Design in the world kitchen - A case study in multi-national collaborative design education', ConnectED 2007 ? International Conference on Design Education, Australia.
Allen, J., Coxon, S. and De Bono, A. (2007), 'Collaborative International Project - 'Kitchen of the World', a case study in multi-national groups undertaking design studio activity', Shaping the Future? 9th International Conference on Engineering & Product Design Education, UK.
Allen, J., Coxon, S. and Napper, R. (2007), 'Changing the climate of public transport - a design research initiative', ATRF 30th Australasian Transport Research Forum: Managing Transport in a Climate of Change and Uncertainty, Australia.
Allen, J., Coxon, S. and Napper, R. (2007), 'The role of Industrial Design in addressing the disparity between user perceptions of public and private transport', ATRF 30th Australasian Transport Research Forum: Managing Transport in a Climate of Change and Uncertainty, Australia.
Allen, J., Coxon, S. and Napper, R. (2007), 'Bridging the divide: Design's role in improving multi-modal transport', ATRF 30th Australasian Transport Research Forum: Managing Transport in a Climate of Change and Uncertainty, Australia.
Allen, J. (2006), 'Human augmentation: transference of design approaches from designing for sports to designing for disability', Wonderground: Design Research Society International Conference, UK.

Research

Jonathon’s research interests span: smart design; design thinking; new and emerging materials and technologies; design's role in addressing social and environmental concerns; transport design; augmenting people's capabilities through perceptive design; designing for people with disabilities; and, design for sustainability. He’s interested in design’s role in enhancing the social and cultural landscape of people’s lives.

His current focus of research is in material intelligence and intelligent use of materials, and in the application of design thinking to addressing pressing concerns related to food security and climate change.