Principal
Education Environments Strategist
Dr Kellee Frith
Studio: Melbourne
Qualifications:
Doctor of Philosophy (Design),
Swinburne University of Technology
Graduate Diploma in Dramatic Art (Design),
The University of Melbourne,
Victorian College of the Arts
Bachelor of Design (Honours),
Swinburne University of Technology
Contact:
kellee.frith@architectus.com.au
Kellee’s role as an Education Environments Strategist is to facilitate meaningful collaboration and effective communication between school communities and school facilities designers (including architects, interior designers and landscape architects).
Her experience as a tertiary educator and skills as a designer and researcher enable her to participate in pedagogical conversations and design discussions. She is able to articulate the links between pedagogy and design and identify design opportunities for the physical environment to support and promote rich, diverse and connected learning and teaching experiences. As a result she is able to develop more effective Education Design Briefs for better functioning schools.
Kellee’s strategic practice is underpinned by doctoral research that examines the potential of interior design to support the development of new cultures of learning and teaching in primary school learning neighbourhoods. A central finding of her research is that teachers need and want specialist training and skill development to help them recognise and exploit the potential of new learning environments that support new learning and teaching principles and practices.
Kellee has been a juror and panel chair for the Association for Learning Environments Victorian Chapter Awards, and for the Learning Environments Australasia (LEAD) Design Awards. Her ongoing involvement with the LEA includes sharing ideas through conference presentations, most recently A Spectrum of Learning: Designing Schools for Neurodiversity.
