Education — TAHLI KORNHAUSER

Monash University, MADA
(Monash Art, Design & Architecture)

DGN2500 Design Thinking for Global Challenges
Elective unit for all Bachelor Degrees

Design thinking applies the skills and strategies developed by designers to address a wide range of global problems and situations. These skills and strategies include a range of conceptual and communication approaches, ways to explore and reconsider the context in which we work, as well as what should or could be achieved. Design thinking brings together some approaches that are known in the sciences and humanities, such as analysis and synthesis, but applies them in ways that are particular to a design approach. It also enables a more flexible approach to problem solving, and a more nuanced engagement with the complex issues of our contemporary world. This unit introduces students to the key skills and practices associated with design thinking, and offers opportunities to explore the application of these basic creativity techniques in a range of disciplines. The final project incorporates progressive theories concerning Sustainable Design Thinking and Behaviour Change Design.

Role: Unit Coordinator
Date: 2018-2022
Location: Monash Caulfield Campus & Online

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Weekly course material

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Using Mural & Zoom to take education online during Covid lockdown

Life in the classroom

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Student work

Monash University, MADA

TDN Design Theory Units, Bachelor of Design

With specialisations in Communication Design, Industrial Design, Spatial Design or Collaborative Design, MADA’s Bachelor of Design degree responds to the increasing global demand for designers who can respond to the complexity of contemporary global society, be inclusive and ethical and contribute sustainably. Our most complex challenges are a call to action for all designers. Within this course, the design theory units aim to explore these issues through a theoretical yet highly practical lens. Fundamentally, they teach students how to think like a designer and what to care about relative to design practice.

Role: Teaching Associate
Date: 2018-2022
Location: Monash Caulfield Campus & Online

Monash University, MADA

ARC1001 Architecture Foundation studio 1
Bachelor of Architectural Design

Foundation Studio introduces architectural design as a process of investigation, critical observation, and experiment. The unit focuses on design as a process engaged with the three-dimensional and material testing of ideas. Projects will be formulated to introduce issues such as scale in relation to the human body, site and environmental contexts, basic techniques of three-dimensional composition and the correct use of architectural drawing conventions.

Role: Assistant Tutor
Date: 2018
Location: Monash Caulfield Campus

RMIT University
School of Management

BUSM4054 Global Entrepreneurship — Special Assessment Project

Under the leadership of Dr Gerrit Anton De Waal, (Senior Lecturer, School of Management), a special arrangement has been made with a small group of students to complete novel assignments for their course Global Entrepreneurship. These practical assignments involve creating a non-profit enterprise entitled Plastic Repurpose. This enterprise is modelled off the innovative project Precious Plastics — an initiative providing open source material for building machines to recycle local plastic waste into useful, designer products. This is topical, given only 9% of the 6300 Mt of globally generated plastic waste was recycled in 2015 (Geyer, Jambeck, Law. Science Advances, 1:2017). The overall goal of the project is to learn how to build these machines locally, to thereafter raise funds and instigate plastic recycling hubs in developing countries. It is our hope that with the team's help, machine users will be able to start micro-enterprises, creating salable products from collected plastic waste.

Role: Project Manager / Tutor
Date: 2018
Location: Make-Create Workshop Brunswick