Dr. Lisa Giusti Gestri is the Academic Research Assistant with the Future Building Initiative Lab at Monash University.

Lisa completed her studies in Industrial Design and the Universita degli Studi di Firenze (Italy) and also worked there prior to moving to Australia, where she worked for several years as an industrial and product designer, as well as a project manager. After several years in the work industry, Lisa decided to go back to university where she completed her Ph.D. at the Swinburne University of Technology: her design research proposed a framework (D-UX) which may help address the needs of users and co-dependent users, where who all depend on the success of the same product’s design, along with the importance of product standards to apply ergonomics and advanced materials. The application of the D-UX process will be pivotal to guarantee the design success of a product and even provide foundations for future directions in design research. Still, at the Swinburne University of Technology, Lisa taught engineering students for years prior to joining Monash University.

Dr Giusti Gestri is passionate about the power of design to change people’s lives for the better and thanks to her long academic and non-academic professional experiences she can focus on real-world problems and projects with a particular focus on the role of design in the future building industry, off-site construction, industry-led research and development, use of latest materials and prototypes.

Due to Lisa’s international experience in product and industrial design, she possesses vast know-how in research, design thinking, human-centred design, innovation, and user experience design. Enthusiastic, versatile professional with expertise in multiple facets of projects.