Guy Keulemans is a designer, artist, curator and researcher. His major research themes are repair and reuse, generative processes, materials of design, and the environmental impacts of production and consumption. An Enterprise Fellow at the University of South Australia, he is Craft and Design Team Leader a the Creative People, Products and Places Research Centre (CP3) and associate member of the Australian Research Centre for Interactive and Virtual Environments (IVE). His current research is funded through the Australian Research Council Linkage Project Designing for sustainability using a transformative repair model in partnership with Australian Design Centre and JamFactory.
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About me
Guy Keulemans is a designer, artist, curator and researcher. His major research themes are repair and reuse, generative processes, materials of design, and the environmental impacts of production and consumption. An Enterprise Fellow at the University of South Australia, he is Craft and Design Team Leader a the Creative People, Products and Places Research Centre (CP3) and associate member of the Australian Research Centre for Interactive and Virtual Environments (IVE). His current research is funded through the Australian Research Council Linkage Project Designing for sustainability using a transformative repair model in partnership with Australian Design Centre and JamFactory.
Interest in materials has led Guy towards examination of sustainability across supply chains and their role in product typologies from from architecture to craft. Guy develops concepts for understanding studio practice-based reseach through theoretical frameworks including affect, biogregionality and transition design. His human research involves ethnographic, curatorial and technological study of transformative repair, as a means to know how designers and craftspeople engage with industrial scale issues of waste and obsolescence.
Guy has a Masters in Humanitarian Design from the Design Academy Eindhoven and a PhD from UNSW Sydney. At UNSW he won the Deans Award for Excellence in Early Career Research in 2019 and at UniSA won the UniSA Creative Innovation in Research Award in 2024. Internationally, he has exhibited in museums and galleries in the Netherlands, Germany, Poland and Austria (at ARS Electronica). In Australia, Guy has works in the permanent collection of the National Gallery of Victoria and the Art Gallery of South Australia, and led the Visions of Australia funded touring exhibition Object Therapy (2016-2019). He is represented in Australia by Gallery Sally Dan-Cuthbert alongside regular collaborator Kyoko Hashimoto. Together they were named one of the Top 100 Game Changers in Design by Architectural Digest Italia in 2021 and won the South Australian Museum’s Waterhouse Natural Science Art Prize in 2022.
About me
Representation by Gallery Sally Dan-Cuthbert with collaborator Kyoko Hashimoto
Director, Testimony Arts, not for profit creative arts and social justice organisation (2020-23)
Repair Research Working Group (Australia).
About me
Doctor of Philosophy University of New South Wales
Master of Design Design Academic Eindhoven
Bachelor of Design (Honours) University of New South Wales
Guy investigates transformative repair and reuse through his research projects, such as his ARC Linkage Project Designing for sustainability using a transformative repair model (2020-25) with partners UNSW, Australian Design Centre and JamFactory
His research also investigates technologies, materials and methods for bioregional design, sustainable design transitions, and critical design and craft frameworks.
Research
Excludes commercial-in-confidence projects.
Designing for adaptive reuse in the built environment: concepts, technologies and practice, Green Industries SA, 01/06/2023 - 31/12/2026
University of South Australia, SIDA Foundation and The David Roche Foundation Curatorial Research Fellowship, Society of Interior Designers of Australia (SIDA), 12/06/2023 - 12/12/2024
Research Grants & Commissions
• 2020-25 Australian Research Council Linkage LP190100751: Designing for sustainability using a transformative repair model
• 2023 UniSA Augmenting Creative Partnerships Grant
• 2023 Samstag Museum, designworks for Knowledge of Place
• 2022 South Australian Government Arts Recovery Fund
• 2022 Enterprise Fellowship UniSA Creative Research Grant
• 2021 Faculty of Arts, Design and Architecture Research Fellow Scheme
• 2021 Faculty of Arts, Design and Architecture ARC Research Support Scheme
• 2021 & 2020 National Gallery of Victoria & UNSW designworks for Sampling the Future
• 2019 UNSW DesignNext, design & sustainability education report
• 2019 Australia Council for the Arts Career Development Grant – Dutch Design Week
• 2019 Faculty Research Grant, Anyoji Temple Transformative Reuse
• 2017 Faculty Research Grant, Transformative Repair & Perception Research
• 2017 Federal Government Visions of Australia Grant, Object Therapy Touring Exhibition (funded to the Australian Design Centre)
• 2016 Arts NSW Artist Grant, Object Therapy
Supervision
Guy is available for higher degree research supervsions at the Masters and Doctorate level for projects investigating sustainable, regenerative and/or critical design and craft practices.
Current supervisions include:
• Roxane Adams (PhD) Designing for adaptive reuse in the built environment: concepts, technologies and practice. UniSA Creative. Primary supervision with Dr Rob Crocker and Dr Julie Nicols, and industry advisors Green Industries SA and P6 Projects.
Past supervisions include:
• Matt Harkness (PhD) Challenging DIY, Speculative Critical Design Objects and An Actor-network Theory Analysis of Critical Making. UNSW, Joint-supervison with A/Prof. KatherineMoline, 2018-22
• Wajiha Pervez (MPhil) Design for Disassembly – Future directions for athletic wear in a circular economy. UNSW, Joint-supervison with Prof. Stephen Loo, 2019-22
• Paula Ngu (MFA) The Mundane as Process Art: Generative and experimental art making. UNSW, Joint-supervison with Emeritus Prof. Ian Howard and A/Prof Ollie Bown, 2019-24
• Joanna Fowles (MFA) Chromatic colourants: Contemporary approaches and applications of natural dye. UNSW, Joint-supervison withA/Prof. Liz Williamson, 2019-23
Research
Research outputs for the last seven years are shown below. Some long-standing staff members may have older outputs included. To see earlier years visit ORCID or Scopus
Open access indicates that an output is open access.
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| 2024 |
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| 2021 |
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| 2016 |
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30
33
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| 2023 |
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| 2021 |
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| 2024 |
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| 2023 |
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1
3
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| 2020 |
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| 2018 |
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| 2016 |
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17
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| 2015 |
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| 2012 |
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| 2020 |
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| 2019 |
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| 2017 |
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| 2016 |
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| 2014 |
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| 2024 |
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| 2023 |
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| 2020 |
Keulemans, G 2020, The case for wood, Garland Magazine, Garland Magazine.
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Research
Guy investigates transformative repair and reuse through his research projects, such as his ARC Linkage Project Designing for sustainability using a transformative repair model (2020-25) with partners UNSW, Australian Design Centre and JamFactory
His research also investigates technologies, materials and methods for bioregional design, sustainable design transitions, and critical design and craft frameworks.
Awards and Recognition
2024 Australian Council of the Deans and Directors of Creative Arts (DDCA) Distinguished Innovation in Creative Arts Award
2024 UniSA Creative Innovation in Research Award
2022 South Australian Museum's Waterhouse Natural Science Art Prize - winner, Open category
2021 Architectural Digest Italia - 100 Game Changers in design
2021 Hornsby Shire Council Reimagine Art Prize exhibition - finalist
2019 UNSW Art & Design Dean’s Award for Excellence in Early Career Research
2014 Belle Magazine - "Generation Next" Australia’s top emerging designers
2014 Temple and Webster’s Emerging Designer Award - nominee
2010 UNSW Art & Design, Kudos Award - design prize
External engagement & recognition
| Organisation | Country |
|---|---|
| AIR Myoko | JAPAN |
| ANU | AUSTRALIA |
| Australian Design Centre | AUSTRALIA |
| Australian National University | AUSTRALIA |
| Charles Sturt University | AUSTRALIA |
| Griffith University | AUSTRALIA |
| Strathclyde University | UNITED KINGDOM |
| Studio Keulemans Hashimoto | AUSTRALIA |
| Tactical Space Lab | AUSTRALIA |
| University of New South Wales | AUSTRALIA |
| University of South Australia | AUSTRALIA |
| University of Tasmania | AUSTRALIA |
| University of Technology Sydney | AUSTRALIA |
| VCUarts Qatar | QATAR |
| Western Sydney University | AUSTRALIA |
External engagement & recognition
| Engagement/recognition | Year |
|---|---|
Advisor and Director on grant awarded to Testimony Arts by the Queensland Government for repair-based arts programs, Strong and Resilient Communities (SARC) Grant of $327,371Testimony Arts |
2024 |
Polylactic Acid Chain & Metalloplastiglomerate vases I & II, aquisition of non-traditional research for Permanent CollectionNational Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne |
2024 |
Advisor and Director on grant awarded to Testimony Arts by the Queensland Government for repair-based arts programs, Strong and Resilient Communities (SARC) Grant of $327,370Testimony Arts |
2023 |
Advisor and Director on grant awarded to Testimony Arts by the Queensland Government for repair-based arts programs, Strong and Resilient Communities (SARC) Grant of $327,369Testimony Arts |
2022 |
Arts Recovery Fund – Practice Research and Development GrantArts South Australia |
2022 |
Bioregional Rings (Northern Sydney Basin Central Coast) - Acquisition of Non-Traditional ResearchArt Gallery of South Australia |
2022 |
Board of Directors - DirectorshipTestimony Arts (Queensland) |
2022 |
Waterhouse Natural Science Art Prize (Open Prize)South Australian Museum |
2022 |
Board of Directors - DirectorshipTestimony Arts (Queensland) |
2021 |
Exhibition FinalistHornsby Shire Council Reimagine Art Prize |
2021 |
Faculty Research FellowshipUNSW Arts, Design & Architecture |
2021 |
Top 100 Game Changers in Design (with Kyoko Hashimoto)Architectural Digest Italia |
2021 |
AUSTRALIAN RESEARCH COUNCIL Linkage Projects LP190100751: Designing for sustainability using a transformative repair modelAustralian Research Council Linkage |
2020 |
iCinema Research FellowshipUNSW iCinema Centre for Interactive Cinema Research |
2020 |
Career Development GrantAustralia Council of the Arts |
2019 |
Dean's Award for Excellence in Early Career ResearchUniversity of New South Wales Faculty of Art & Design |
2019 |
Deans Award for Excellence in Early Career ResearchUNSW Art & Design |
2019 |
Guy is active in news and design media, providing commentary and expertise on issues of
• experimental/critical craft and design of products, furniture and homewares
• design and sustainability, including the topics of waste, repair and reuse, circular economy and materials for sustainable design.
Articles for the Conversation:
2021 We’ve smelted a billion tonnes of recyclable aluminium. Do we need to make more?
2016 Kintsugi and the art of ceramic maintenance
2016 The problem with reinforced concrete 2016 [Spanish translation 2017, French translation 2018]
Radio and Television interviews:
2024 On Transformative Repair for ABC Drive Adelaide with Jo Laverty, 2/4
2022 On winning the SA Museum Waterhouse Natural Science Art Prize, Breakfast with Emma Pedler, 9/6
2022 On transformative repair for Eastside Radio's Thursday Drive with Nina Drakalovic 2/6
2020 On repair and waste for ABC's Big Ideas with Paul Barclay
2020 On design and sustainability for TalkBlack Radio Cairns
2020 On design and sustainability for ABC Radio Victoria Interview
2019 On concrete for ABC's Blueprint with Jonathan Green
2019 Interview, 2SER, on xmas present waste and sustainability
2019 Interview by Christein De Garis for ABC breakfast show Esperance
2018 ‘Shifts in Japanese Materiality’ Interview by Mick Rad, 2SER
2017 “The beauty of creative repair”, web video, Sydney Morning Herald/Fairfax
2017 Interviewed by Simon Marnie, ABC Radio, Sydney, Object Therapy touring exhibition
2016 On concrete for Radio New Zealand's Nine to Noon with Kathryn Ryan
2016 Interviewed by ABC National Nightly News about Object Therapy
2016 Interviewed by Genevieve Jacobs for ABC 666 Canberra on Object Therapy and kintsugi
2016 Interviewed by Sonya Feldhoff for 891 ABC Adelaide about reinforced concrete and sustainability
Print & web interviews:
2024 ‘Not broken, brilliant: beloved items given new life in unique arts project’, interview for Suzie Keen, InReveiw & InDaily, April.
2022 “Levelling up your sustainable furniture game”, by Penny Craswell, Art Edit #32
2020 Nuances of Repair interview with Lara Chapman for the Royal Academy of Art in the Hague
2020 ‘Activist design in the age of COVID’ profile by Tili Bensley-Nettheim, Australian Design Review
2018 with William Arnott for Waste Management Review
2018 ‘Melbourne Design Week: Decolonising Design ‘ Interview by Phillipa Barr for Domus Magazine
2017 with Penny Craswell for Garland Magazine
2017 with Lisa Cahill, ADC’s Object Platform
2017 with Heath Killen for In Wild Air
2017 “Kintsugi’, interview by Denby Weller, the Big Smoke
2016 “How Australian designers make inroads offshore while staying local”, by Stephen Todd, the Australian Financial Review
2016 Profile in Wood Planet Magazine, Korea
2014 ‘Guy Keulemans – Emerging Designer Award 2014’, interviewby David Harrison
2010 ‘Far & Away’ by Robert La Bua, Belle Australia, September 2010
2010 Profile by Ingeborg van Lieshout, Artichoke Magazine
Keynotes and Public Speaking:
2024 Keynote, International State of Practice Webinar for Ethical Metalsmiths, with Kyoko Hashimoto, September
2024 Invited Speaker with Kay Lawrence, JamFactory Wednesday Talks, UniSA Jeffrey Smart Library, Adelaide, May,
2022 Invited Speaker with Trent Jansen, JamFactory Wednesday Talks, Mercury Cinema, Adelaide, August
2021 Host,‘In Conversation: Dr Guy Keulemans with Anita Johnson Larkin, the Australian Design Centre, 20th February,
2019 Public lecture at ‘Celebrating Repair: 10 years of Repair Cafe & the Repair Manifesto’, Amsterdam City Library, October
2019 Lecture and workshop, Royal College of the Arts in the Hague 17th October, 2019
2019 Guest speaker, CONCRETE symposium UniSA Adelaide, March 22nd, 2019
Books:
2021 Kintsugi: The Poetic Mend by Bonnie Kemske, Herbert Press
2020 Re-issue, Re-imagine, Re-make: Appropriation in Contemporary Furniture Design by Elisabeth Darby, Lund Humphries, London
2016. Perfect Imperfect, the beauty of accident, age & patina by Karen McCartney, Sharyn Cairns & Glen Proebstel, Allen & Unwin.
Teaching & student supervision
Teaching & student supervision
Supervisions from 2010 shown
| Thesis title | Student status |
|---|---|
| 110215 - Designing for adaptive reuse in the built environment: concepts, technologies and practice | Current |
| Decolonising curatorial practices: the relationship between curation and Indigenous artistic representation | Current |
