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Charity Edwards is a Lecturer in the Department of Architecture at Monash University, specializing in interdisciplinary urban research, architecture, and planetary-scale environmental studies. Her work bridges architecture, astrophysics, and speculative fiction to explore urbanization's multispecies impacts, particularly in remote environments like the Southern Ocean and outer space.
- Education: Master of Architecture (RMIT), Master of Environment (University of Melbourne)
- Professional: 15+ years architectural practice, registered architect
Research focuses on oceanic urbanization, Antarctic geo-imaginaries, and climate change. She co-founded The Afterlives of Cities collective and contributed to the UN IPCC's 2019 Special Report on oceans and cryosphere.
Recent projects include the Warracknabeal Creative Circuit (regional Victoria) and collaborations like 'Future Fossil' at the 2025 Lorne Sculpture Biennale. Teaching emphasizes cross-cultural design pedagogy, winning the 2016 Early Career Teaching Award.
- Awards: Beazley Design of the Year shortlist (2019), Australian Interior Design Awards (2015)
Grants include leadership in projects like Decarbonising Buildings in Asia (2023-2024) and Single Point Incremental Forming of Structural Panels (2022). Active in public discourse through media engagements, curation (AIA Victorian Architecture Awards), and Wikipedia design campaigns.
Labs/Teams: Monash Urban Lab, Warracknabeal Creative Circuit initiative.
