Rate My Professor Katica Pedisic

Dr Katica Pedisic is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Architecture and Built Environment, College of Creative Arts, Design and Humanities at Adelaide University. A registered architect with over 13 years of professional practice as an associate at a design studio, she specialized in residential and small-scale cultural projects. Her design work has received numerous Australian Institute of Architects awards for design excellence and has been published internationally. Pedisic completed her PhD by practice at RMIT University in December 2016, supervised by Professors Richard Blythe, Hélène Frichot, and Dr Michael Spooner. Her doctoral research explored the act of drawing—both digital and analogue—in mediating the registration and emergence of space, and how drawings articulate human engagement with architecture over time. She has taught architectural design, construction, communication, and professional practice across undergraduate and master's programs. Previously, she held teaching positions at the University of Melbourne, Swinburne Institute of Technology, and the University of Adelaide, and served as an external moderator and critic at UniSA, RMIT, and the University of Adelaide. She was also a panel member for the RMIT Practice Research Symposium.

Pedisic's research investigates architectural and urban sites through drawing and digital film works, emphasizing their narrative storytelling potentials and architecture's relationship with the temporal, including the narrative capacities of film and games. Her work examines public art and architecture interventions as catalysts for revitalizing urban spaces and explores the nexus of architecture and wellbeing at community levels, incorporating diverse cultural, gender-nonconforming, and age-inclusive narratives. Her contributions have been exhibited internationally and nationally, including at the Bartlett, UCL, London, and the Royal Danish School of Arts. She has presented at conferences such as Drawing Millions of Plans at KADK and Sexuate Subjects at the Bartlett, and participated in invited public panels like MPavilion’s MTalks and Parlour salons. Key publications include the book chapter 'Beyond the Inanimate Line: Expanding Narratives of Drawings in Contemporary Creative Practice and Architectural Education' (2024, Emerald Publishing) and 'Four Ways to Occupy a Hearth: On Conceiving the Invisible' (2020, Birkhauser). Conference papers feature 'Lines Made by Walking: On Conceiving the Invisible' (2017). Notable creative works encompass 'Archipelago' (2023), 'Revolutionary Terrains' (2023, with collaborators), 'Sun to Sun (neverdone)' (2022), 'Ultra Violet / the Architect's Horcrux' (2018), and 'Four Ways to Occupy a Hearth' (2017). In 2018, she co-curated the panel event 'MTalks: Storey/Story: Telling Architectural Tales through New Narratives'.