Projects per year
Personal profile
Biography
Melisa is a Research Fellow of the Emerging Technologies Research Lab, where she leads the Future Health and Wellbeing research program and co-leads the Sustainability research theme. She is a full-time member based at the Department of Design MADA. As a design researcher, her works sits at the intersection of Design Anthropology, Participatory Design and Everyday Design. Melisa’s latest projects explore healthcare and wellbeing design ethnography with ageing people in the contexts of the home, the hospital and residential aged care. Where she learns about the ways in which built design environments and technologies of care are used and adapted by people in their everyday routines. She is particularly interested in emergent practices of design for revaluing, including: the ongoing transformation by design-in-use of spaces and devices, collaborative repair, and creative crafts of reuse. Melisa’s interdisciplinary work is featured in the latest ethnographic film Smart Homes for Seniors. She is a co-author of the recent book Design Ethnography: Research, Responsibilities and Futures (Routledge, 2022), and currently working on her book Designing Homeliness: Everyday Practices of Care (Routledge).
Melisa has a PhD from the School of Design at RMIT, a Masters of Design (by research) from Monash University, and she was trained as an Industrial Designer at Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana (UPB) in Medellin, Colombia. She has done design teaching at these three Universities and Design Schools.
Diseñadora e investigadora colombiana viviendo en Australia. Interesada en practicas de diseño cotidiano para la revaluación y el bienestar. Trabajando actualmente con temas de salud, tecnología y revaluación.
Education/Academic qualification
Design Research, Doctor in Philosophy, RMIT University
Award Date: 27 Sep 2018
Research area keywords
- design research
- design anthropology
- ethnographic practice
- everyday design
- sustainable design
- design ethnography
- emerging technologies
- design for revaluing
Network
Projects
- 2 Finished
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CoM P2: City of Melbourne - City Data Futures Prototype
Pink, S., Lanzeni, D., Fridman, I., Duque Hurtado, M., Sumartojo, S. & Vallentine, B.
25/02/21 → 30/06/21
Project: Research
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The Living Lab: Designing the Future of Aged Care
Clark, S., Flynn, D., Joe, K., Pink, S., McCormack, J., Mihelcic, J. & Duque Hurtado, M.
1/12/19 → 30/11/21
Project: Research
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Automation, wellbeing and Digital Voice Assistants: Older people and Google devices
Duque, M., Pink, S., Strengers, Y., Martin, R. & Nicholls, L., 2021, In: Convergence. 27, 5, p. 1189–1206 18 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
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Everyday comforting practices in psychiatric hospital environments: A design anthropology approach
Duque, M., Annemans, M., Pink, S. & Spong, L., 2021, In: Journal of Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing. 28, 4, p. 644-655 12 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
1 Citation (Scopus) -
Smart Homes for Seniors: Intelligent Home Solutions for Independent Living
Strengers, Y., Duque Hurtado, M., Mortimer, M., Pink, S., Eugene, A., Martin, R., Nicholls, L., Horan, B. & Thomson, S., Feb 2021, Travancore VIC AUS: McLean Care. 123 p.Research output: Book/Report › Other Report › Research
Open AccessFile -
Thrift Stores
Podkalicka, A. & Duque Hurtado, M., 2021, The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology. Ritzer, G. (ed.). USA: John Wiley & Sons, 1 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Encyclopaedia / Dictionary Entry › Other › peer-review
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Atmospheres of care in a psychiatric inpatient unit
Sumartojo, S., Pink, S., Duque, M. & Vaughan, L., 2020, In: Design for Health. 19 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
Prizes
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IoT (Internet of Things) Awards, Diversity, Equity and Inclusion winner
Strengers, Yolande (Recipient), Pink, Sarah (Recipient), Duque Hurtado, Melisa (Recipient), Martin, R. (Recipient), Nicholls, L. (Recipient), Mortimer, M. (Recipient), Horan, B. (Recipient), Eugene, A. (Recipient) & Thomson, S. (Recipient), 2021
Prize: Prize (including medals and awards)
Press / Media
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MONASH LENS: 'Getting smart: Seniors see the benefits of technology in the home'
Melisa Duque & Yolande Strengers
25/02/21
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Article/Feature
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ABC NEWS: 'Bendigo Health aims to prove hospital patients benefit from design'
Sarah Pink, Melisa Duque, Laurene Vaughan & Shanti Sumartojo
11/08/16
1 item of Media coverage
Press/Media: Article/Feature
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BENDIGO ADVERTISER: 'New Bendigo hospital to host design research in psychiatric unit'
Sarah Pink, Melisa Duque, Laurene Vaughan & Shanti Sumartojo
10/08/16
1 item of Media coverage
Press/Media: Article/Feature