Mrs Chloe Cassidy
Bachelor of Design
Master of Design
PhD Candidate
Chloe is an Education Forcussed lecturer in the School of Art and Design, teaching in integrated and collaborative design programs across Bachelor, Honours, and Masters degrees. Chloe's particular interest lies in fostering a transdisciplinary approach tointegrate somaesthetic and imaginal sensitivities to advance the field of trauma-integrated design. Her profound understanding of the vital role of protective and compensatory experiences and how these may be cultivated in empathetic, creative, and meaning-making experiences underscores her commitment to socially engaged design and the way she approaches design education. Chloe's pedagogical approach is deeply rooted in fosteringenriching learning environments and adopting a strengths-based approach to empower students to thrive in the dynamic design industry.
Chloe's commitment to education, research, and transformative design experiences extends beyond the classroom, with her creative outputs having been exhibited at Venice Biennale, Rosemount Australian Fashion Week (St Kilda Sea Baths, Melbourne), Hidden: Rookwood Sculpture Walk (Sydney), the UNICEF Designers Unite Against AIDS Blue String Campaign, in various solo and group shows in Sydney and Melbourne, and by the International Artists and Climate Change Organisation. Chloe's transdisciplinary expertise has also been deployed in collaborative roles demonstrating the transformative power of art and design, including: Sydney Children’s Hospital Foundation and Randwick Children’s Hospital School, Fairfield Multicultural Health Services together with STARRTS and Opera Australia Choir Projects, Exodus Foundation Kaleidoscope Art Program, and the Rowing Australia GrOW program in rehabilitation and juvenile justice facilities and in Sydney.
As a recipient of an Australian Government Research Training Program Scholarship and member of UNSW's Big Anxiety Research Centre (BARC), Chloe's forthcoming PhD in trauma-integrated design, reaffirms her dedication to advancing innovative research at the intersection of mental health and design.
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- Teaching and Supervision
Co-investigator in UNSW Education Focussed School Grant (2022) 'Leveraging innovations using MSTeams in mixed modal learning spaces to develop an equitable and engaged scalable cross-disciplinary teaching model' together withEmma Mills (Project Lead), Karin Watson, Dr Mark Ian Jones,Stephen Goddard and Dr Carly Vickers.
"... a reflective teaching pilot was undertaken in the discipline of Design at an Australian research-intensive university. The aim was to prototype an equitable and engaged learning space in a mixed modal delivery using MS Teams, incorporating the teaching innovations developed “on the fly” during the online delivery of curriculum in 2020."
2020 - 2023Australian Government Research Training Program Scholarship
2010 UNSW Deans List for Academic Excellence
2009 Nominee Design Institute of Australia NSW/ACT Graduate of the Year
2009 Nominee Design Now! Object Gallery Award
2007 Winner of Inaugural 'BODY Fledgling Designer Project’ Australia
2020 Ode To Gaia, on International Artist and Climate Change
2020 Study in Healing and Study in Grounding exhibited at BOLTSpace, Maitland
2018 Still Chasing the Sun Exhibition at Bamboo Buddha, Central Coast, Australia
2012 Elf:Eleven Contributing designer to Archrival’s Arena Calcetto, Venice Biennale, Italy
2012 Chasing the Sun Exhibition at Sydney Children’s Hospital, Randwick
2012 Transcendence II at Hidden: Rookwood Sculpture Walk 2012, Rookwood
2012 Transcendence Solo Exhibition at Ku Ring Gai Art Centre Gallery, Sydney
2011 Metal Memories and Steampunk Dreams Polymorph Gallery, Newtown, Sydney
2011 Curator of Friends’ FoNAS Group Show, Sydney Children’s Hospital, Randwick
2011 Love Moments Group Art Show at Art Moment Gallery, Bondi, Sydney
2009 PHM09 Penthouse Mouse Exhibition at The Capital, Melbourne
2009 Curator of Exodus Foundation Kaleidoscope Project at Exodus Hall Ashfield, Sydney
2007 UNICEF Designers Unite Against AIDS Blue String Appeal, The Westin Hotel, Sydney
2006 Rosemount Australian Fashion Week. By invitation at St Kilda Sea Baths, Melbourne
2006 Watt? Exhibition Group Show at Kudos Gallery, Sydney
My Teaching
FADA2020 Design Collaboration Studio 2
DDES1000 Design Studio 1 Design Fundamentals / Design Narratives
DDES2100 Design Studio 3 Collaborative Industry Project
DDES2101 Design Studio 4 Interdisciplinary Design Project
DDES4200 Design Research Methods and Theory (Honours)
DDES4201 Design Honours Studio
ADAD9114 Research Foundations in Art and Design
SDES9203 Entrepreneurship and Creativity
SDES9210 Critical Approaches to Design
SDES9211 Culture and Identity
SDES9213 Design Studio A
SDES9214 Design Studio B
SDES3414 Integrated Project - Royal Doulton Collaboration