David Corbet

Dr David Corbet is an educator, designer, writer, and curator affiliated with UNSW Art & Design and The University of Sydney. He heads a long-established design consultancy and teaches across graphic communication, spatial/experience design, and history/theory streams at both postgraduate and undergraduate levels. His work bridges transdisciplinary visual cultures, global exhibition practice, and cultural translocality.

• Education:
  • Doctor of Philosophy (University of Sydney)
  • Master of Fine Arts (Research) (UNSW Sydney)
  • Postgraduate Diploma in Design and Computing (Central St Martins College of Art and Design, University of the Arts, London)
  • AFTRS Sydney (focused on cross-disciplinary design practice and digital technologies)

His research explores transcultural visual practices, particularly through fieldwork in Australia, Southeast Asia, Latin America, Southern Africa, and the Middle East. He edits and designs books/catalogues on contemporary visual cultures and is developing a postdoctoral project on migration, trade, and cultural translocality.

Key research areas include:

• Transdisciplinary visual cultures
• Global exhibition practices
• Cultural translocality and southern epistemologies
• Human migration and Latin American cultural studies