Publications

Past Works

McLean, H & Varadarajan, S 2020, 'My First Six Months: Students’ Perceptions of Learner-Centred Design Studios', in, Springer Singapore, Singapore, pp. 143-153.

McLean, H, Dim, W, Varadarajan, S & Francis, C 2023, 'My first six months (MF6M): industrial design students perceptions of their first semester experience of learner-centred design studios', in Conference: 9th International Conference on Higher Education Advances (HEAd’23)At: Valencia, Spain, June 2023.

Dim, W, de VERE, I & Sheahan, J 'TOWARDS RE-IMAGINING INDUSTRIAL DESIGN EDUCATION FOR THE CONTEMPORARY PERIOD', 

Fennessy, L., Ramirez, M., Clune, S., Strachan, M., Lockrey, S., & Varadarajan, S. (2016). 'Building capacity for sustainable product service systems in Australian industrial design education: a reflection upon contemporary practice'. Paper presented at the LeNSes Conference 2016: Sustainable Energy for All by Design.

Varadarajan, S. and Fennessy, L. 2012, 'Educating for design activism', in Live Projects: designing with people, RMIT University Press, Melbourne, Australia, pp. 200-213 ISBN: 9781921426933 

Varadarajan, S. 2010, 'A new beginning for teaching design for sustainability', in Proceedings of Sustainability in design: Now! challenges and opportunities for design research, Education and practice in the XXI century: Proceedings of the LeNS Conference, Fabrizio Ceschin, Carlo Vezzoli, Jun Zhang (ed.), Greenleaf Publishing, Sheffield, United Kingdom, pp. 952-956 (LeNS conference).

Varadarajan, S. and Sandvik, E. 2010, 'Will the social make design address the marginalized', in Proceedings of the sustainability in design: now! Challenges and opportunities for design research, education and practice in the XXI Century: Proceedings of the LeNS Conference, Fabrizio Ceschin, Carlo Vezzoli, Jun Zhang (ed.), Greenleaf Publishing, Sheffield, United Kingdom, pp. 1057-1063 (LeNS conference).

Fennessy, L. Varadarajan, S. and Curlis, S. 2009, 'Transnational experiences: India and China in Australian industrial design education', in Cumulus 38º South: Hemispheric Shifts Across Learning, Teaching and Research, L. Fennessy, R. Kerr, G. Melles, C. Thong & E. Wright (ed.), Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne, Australia, pp. 1-11 (Cumulus 38º South).

Trathen, S. Varadarajan, S. and Mayson, S. 2007, 'When Australian Design Works in China: Contemporary practice in design', in Proceedings of ConnectED 2007 International Conference on Design Education, Robert Zehrer, Carl Reidsema (ed.), University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia, pp. 1-4 (ConnectED 2007 International Conference on Design Education).

Varadarajan, S. McLean, H. and Fennessy, L. 2007, 'The Learner Centred Project: Negotiating social discourses in design education', in Proceedings of ConnectED 2007 International Conference on Design Education, Robert Zehrer (ed.), University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia, pp. 1-4 (ConnectED 2007 International Conference on Design Education).