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Make welcome: an autoethnography of queering experience design practice

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posted on 2025-04-03, 01:00 authored by Victoria Firth-Smith
This practice-based thesis uses queer autoethnography to critically explore experience design, with a focus on making, pleasure, and the role of guests. It frames “coming in” as a deliberately designed experience, offering bold provocations for design justice. Grounded in international fieldwork with leading experience designers and shaped by my practice as a lesbian designer, this research traces acts of entering and being entered, documenting how welcome is conceptualised, constructed, and challenged within designed settler environments. It critiques the myth of design, revealing how designers can reinforce kyriarchal structures, and contributes to the emerging field of experience design research by foregrounding the pleasures of making intimate, intentional welcomes rather than institutional ones.

History

Campus location

Australia

Principal supervisor

Gene Bawden

Additional supervisor 1

Stacy Holman Jones

Year of Award

2025

Department, School or Centre

Design

Course

Doctor of Philosophy

Degree Type

DOCTORATE

Faculty

Faculty of Art, Design and Architecture

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