Kurt W. Seemann BSc(Hons)(UNSW)DipEd(UNSW) Grad Cert (Competent Management) Deakin, ACM-Australian Institute of Management, PhD(UNSW) APPOINTMENTS: Associate Professor: Design, Society and Culture; (Cultures Based Innovation Research); Faculty of Design, Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne (2012+) a/School Director for Higher Degrees Research and Training (2011-12) Director of Research (Aug 2011-August 2012) School of Tourism and Hospitality Management Southern Cross University Adjunct Associate Professor – Sustainable Settlements Research (2008-2011) Curtin University Sustainability Policy Institute (CUSP) URL: http://sustainability.curtin.edu.au/. National Core Project Manager (2006-2009) Desert Knowledge CRC - Sustainable Desert Settlements School of Tourism and Hospitality Management Southern Cross University. Project Leader (2003-2005) Desert Knowledge CRC - Aboriginal Remote Housing and Technology Education Lifecycle Research School of Education Southern Cross University. PROFESSIONAL APPOINTMENTS 2009-2011 Appointed Thinker Online/Thinker On-Hand, to the Design and Technology Teacher's Association (DATTA) of Victoria. 2011+International Rep. elect. on the Board of DATTA Australia. 2009+ Invited Member of the World Society for Ekistics (WSE). World membership limited to 400. AREA OF EXPERTISE: Dr Seemann's research investigates the relationship between People, Technology and the Environment as a complex adaptive system. The scale of his research has focussed at two levels: the human scale of holistic technology education and processes of innovation, and the larger societal scale of systems driving and defining the sustainability of human settlements. RESEARCH H-INDEX as @ June2012 = 7 URL source via: http://scholar.google.com/citations?user=fzMAGx4AAAAJ&hl=en NOTE: Commenced academic career in June 1999
Journal articles - Peer Reviewed
Clarifying Food Education toward Innovation and Design for the Global Green New Deal (with Angela F. Turner), Food Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal (2012)
There is an increasing need for food and beverage industries to develop a culture of...
The 'viability' and resilience of communities and settlements in desert Australia, ERA Research Outputs (2012)
The teaching of Food Technology in secondary schools (with Angela Turner), Food Australia (2011)
This paper presents findings from a recent Australian study that investigated perceptions of 'food technology'...
Community Conversations for Sustainability in the Desert: Leonora, Western Australia (with Dora Marinova and Silvia Lozeva), Journal of Economic and Social Policy (2010)
The concept of sustainability calls for a holistic perspective where the prospects for future generations...
Desert Settlements: Towards Understanding the Mutuality of Influence and Scale-free Network Concepts (with Dora Marinova), Journal of Economic and Social Policy (2010)
While most Australian human settlements are large, densely networked urban systems located on the east-south-eastern...
Books and Monographs Peer Reviewed
Seeds of Sustainability: Growing your Desert Communities (with Bernard Guerin and Pauline Guerin) (2011)
One of the key lessons shown in our research is that: While some people think...
Housing for livelihoods: The lifecycle of housing and infrastructure through a whole-of-system approach in remote Aboriginal settlements (with Matthew Parnell, Stephen McFallan, and Selwyn Tucker) (2008)
This study set out to review work to date on sustainable investment in desert settlements,...
Remote controlled waste: research study of waste in remote aboriginal communities in Central Australia for the Northern Territory Dept. of Health and Community Services (with Bruce William Walker), School of Tourism and Hospitality Management Papers (1991)
The Aboriginal Technical Worker feasibility study (ATWORK): a national co-operative curriculum development project of the Australian Conference of TAFE Directors (with Bruce William Walker), School of Tourism and Hospitality Management Papers (1990)
Book chapters - Peer Reviewed
Food innovation and Technacy Genre Theory: strategies for teaching and learning (with Angela F. Turner), Current Trends in Technology and Society (2012)
'Plain English instead of hard words': English language encounters in a remote Aboriginal Community (with Annie Kennedy), Current Trends in Technology and Society (2012)
The Green Growth Knowledge Economy: Implications for Technology and Design Teachers (with Jason Newcombe and Angela F. Turner), Current Trends in Technology and Society (2012)
How societies learn, design and develop a green growth focus in knowledge innovations are the...
Venice - is it the new Atlantis? (with Stephen Whittle), Current Trends in Technology and Society (2012)
Food Innovation and Technacy Genre Theory: Implications for Teaching and Learning (with Angela Turner), Current Trends in Technology and Society (2012)
One of the most rapidly developing and ubiquitous areas on offer in many school curriculums...
Theses - Peer Reviewed
The socio-technical sustainability of shelter systems and hardware in remote indigenous Australian communities, PhD Thesis, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW (1997)
This study examines the sustainability of introduced shelter systems and hardware in remote indigenous Australian...
An argument for industrial arts in education: an alternative to the current manual arts model, BSc. Ind. Arts (Hons) thesis, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW (1986)
Appropriate technology in Iriri: a micro-hydroelectric project in the Solomon Islands, BSc. Ind. Arts thesis project, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW (1986)
Conference Proceedings - Peer Reviewed
Weaving virtual service networks into regional cities: “nurture the body here, and offer the mind anywhere” – anecdotes from the Coffs Harbour community forums to minimise carbon usage and maximise regional innovation, Sustaining Our Future: Understanding and Living with Uncertainty, Proceedings: MODSIM2011, 19th International Congress on Modelling and Simulation (2011)
Almost all cities around the world are looking for ways to ease the pressure upon...
Clarifying food innovation education for the global green new deal (with Angela F. Turner), University of Nevada, USA (2011)
The teaching of food technology in secondary schools (with Angela Turner), 43rd Annual Australian Institute of Food Science and Technology Convention, Creating the Future of Food (2010)
This paper presents a summary of findings from a recent Australian study that investigated perceptions...
The teaching of Food Technology in NSW schools (with Angela Turner), 43 rd Annual Australian Institute Food Science and Technology Convention 'Creating the Future of Food', 25-29 July, 2010 (2010)
This paper presents findings from a recent Australian study that investigated perceptions of 'food technology'...
Clarifying sustainable food technology futures through technacy genre theory (with Angela Turner), Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Technological Learning and Thinking, ‘Moving to Think: Culture, Design, Sustainability, Human Ingenuity’ (2010)
In order for education systems to nurture a culture of innovation and sustainability in the...