Rate My Professor Rob Cameron

Dr Rob Cameron is a lecturer and researcher at the Australian Urban Design Research Centre (AUDRC) and the UWA School of Design, Discipline of Urban Design, within the Faculty of Arts, Business, Law and Education at the University of Western Australia. As a graduate architect, he has professional experience as an architect at ARM Architecture, animator and graphic designer, and public artist. In his academic role, he also engages in casual teaching across multiple disciplines. Cameron's research explores emerging technologies in interdisciplinary design practice and their impacts on the perception and production of cities, working across scales and media in architecture, urban design, and fine arts. His academic interests include smart cities, platform capitalism, the politics of public space, design-based research, interactive public art, the city in film, media theory, place theory, design pedagogy, parametric design, rapid prototyping, and environmental simulation.

Cameron has produced 21 research outputs, including journal articles, exhibitions, conference papers, and book chapters. Key publications comprise 'Density my way: Community attitudes to neighbourhood densification scenarios' in Cities (2024, with Bolleter, Edwards, and Hooper), 'Implications of the Covid-19 Pandemic: Canvassing Opinion from Planning Professionals' in Planning Practice and Research (2022, with Bolleter, Edwards, Duckworth, Freestone, Foster, and Hooper), 'A critical landscape and urban design analysis of Egypt’s new Administrative Capital City' in Journal of Landscape Architecture (2021, with Bolleter), 'Optimizing the solar energy capture of residential roof design in the southern hemisphere through Evolutionary Algorithm' in Energy and Built Environment (2021, with Kaji Esfahani, Karrech, Elchalakani, Tenorio, and Jerez), and 'Revisiting the Australian Government’s Growth Centres program 1972–1975' in Planning Perspectives (2021, with Bolleter, Freestone, Wilkinson, and Hooper). He has received the School of Design Award for Teaching Excellence (2025), the Australian Space Architecture Challenge award (2024, with Luan, Basso, and Otto), and the Australian Postgraduate Award (2016).