Khoa Do

About

Khoa Do is an Associate Professor of Architecture at Curtin University. His research focuses on designing and developing interdisciplinary Scholarship of Teaching & Learning (SOTL) models. Professor Do is a trained Australian Architect with more than two decades of combined experience in the university sector and architectural practice. Khoa is an award-winning educator, designer, speaker and author. Khoa is regularly invited to provide high-level advice and leadership through chairing, convening, assessing, reviewing, juror and board member on the state, national and international university and professional panels. Notably, he is currently an executive fellow of the Curtin Academy and national grants and awards assessor. Khoa has delivered numerous international keynotes and facilitate stakeholder engagements to disseminate his expertise through best-practice. Khoa has led university-industry projects around the notion of knowledge communities formed through consortiums of practice. Khoa’s contribution to higher education is led through fresh forms of thinking, creative synthesis of current and emerging discourse in industry engagement with external stakeholders in the advancement of work-integrated learning (WIL) simulation and multicultural design engagement approach. Khoa actively champions research in the areas of embedded learning in practice and to develop educational models that seek to capitalise on the professional industry environment as a place of authentic learning through project-based-learning (PBL), inquiry-based-learning (IBL) and experiential-based-learning (EBL) that promote collaborative inquiry and discovery. Khoa thrives on interdisciplinary projects as fantastic opportunities to work alongside colleagues who share a desire to awaken ways of supporting the advancement of SOTL for transformation that is bold, borderless and progressive. Khoa was recently awarded four Australian federal government funding of $732,600.00 over three years (2020–2022) to continue building on the highly successful transnational design programs which Khoa developed and has sustained its growth over one and half decades. The program has built international linkages and partnerships for the advancement of embedding learning beyond the classroom for staff and students through global mobility partnering with Taiwan, Singapore and Malaysia.

Work

Curtin University
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Associate Professor

Australia

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In Support of Sustainable Densification in Urban Planning: Re-Purposing CCTV for Propagation of Human Energy from Movement within Urban Spaces

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Urban, Planning and Transport Research (RUPT)

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The Multiphase Works Package: Village Living In-balance

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Education, Design and Practice – Understanding skills in a Complex World. Architecture, Media, Politics, & Society Conference

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A Matter of Sustaining Life after Death: Liminal Architectures Role in Loss, Grief and Acceptance

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42nd AUBEA: Australasian Universities Building Education Association Conference, Curtin University, Singapore

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Aquatic architecture: a Sustainable Refuge in response to Rising Sea Levels in the Maldives

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42nd AUBEA: Australasian Universities Building Education Association Conference, Curtin University, Singapore

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Challenges in integrating LCSA and MCDA approaches in building projects: limitations and the way forward

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42nd AUBEA Conference 2018: Educating Building Professionals for the Future in the Globalised World

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42nd AUBEA Conference 2018: Educating Building Professionals for the Future in the Globalised World, Vol 1: Innovation.

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Comparative economic-environmental feasibility of reinforced concrete and laminated steel structures

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42nd AUBEA Conference 2018: Educating Building Professionals for the Future in the Globalised World

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Design Economics Through Use of BIM as a Decision Support System

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42nd AUBEA Conference 2018: Educating Building Professionals for the Future in the Globalised World

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Innovation, Technology and Sustainability: the first Bush University in Australia: Nowanup Learning Beyond the Classroom

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42nd AUBEA: Australasian Universities Building Education Association Conference, Curtin University, Singapore

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Nowanup Bush University: Idea for a breathing space.

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34th National SPERA Conference: Access for All Equity Matters, Curtin University, Perth, WA, 28-30 November 2018.

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42nd AUBEA Conference 2018: Educating Building Professionals for the Future in the Globalised World, Vol 2: Technology.

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42nd AUBEA Conference 2018: Educating Building Professionals for the Future in the Globalised World, Vol 3: Sustainability.

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Designing Spatial Pedagogy: optimising and activation of Campus Assets.

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4th Campus Design and Development Summit 2017, IQPC, the Rydes Sydney, NSW, Australia, 30-31 October 2017.

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Active Placemaking Pedagogy: looking at L&T environments from a Design Perspective

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3rd Campus Design and Development Summit 2016: Ensuring a Pedagogically Responsive Campus and Facility for 21st Century Learners, IQPC, the Hilton Sydney, NSW, Australia, 19-21 October 2016.

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Safe Failing: Cross-Discipline Simulation across Built Environment Disciplines.

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Learning for Change and Innovation, World Congress, Adelaide, South Australia, 7-9 November 2016.

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The DNA of an innovative, engaging and transformative learning model: A case study in work-integrated learning (WIL).

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Teaching and Learning Forum 2014 – Transformative, Innovative and Engaging. 30-31 January 2014.

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Next Generation of Learning Spaces (NGLS): a visualisation of the design process.

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The Academic Practice and Technology (APT) Conference: Next Generation Learning Places and WorkSpaces is our eleventh annual conference hosted by the centre at the University of Greenwich and supported by the Higher Education Academy (HEA) and Jisc. 2 July 2013.

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Point of Reference: for the new student of architecture and interior architecture.

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Research, Experience, and Capture: A study tour of self-directed exploration.

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15th Annual Teaching and Learning Forum, Feb 1, 2006, the University of Western Australia: The University of Western Australia.

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REC [record] Vietnam: research, experience, and capture.

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UniPrint

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