Paul Carter
Professor
 Architecture and Design
RMIT University
Australia
Biography
Paul Carter is an internationally acclaimed academic and artist and has an outstanding track record as an industry collaborator, creative researcher, design mentor and public lecturer. He is Professor of Design/Urbanism at the School of Architecture and Design.Paul has theorised creative research practice and mentors in this area. His research interests include: the poetics of place-making, public space design and the application of creative research to community renewal, strategic planning and policy formation. In 2004 he published Material Thinking which became a seminal book on the theory and practice of creative research. In 2008 he followed this up with Dark Writing: performance, geography, design which extends creative research theory and practice into the domain of planning.
Research Interest
place-making
Publications
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 Common patterns: narratives of 'mere coincidence' and the production of regions
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 Lips in language and space: Imaginary places in James Dawson's Australian Aborigines (1881)
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 The saving face of death: anthropology and the scene of knowing
