Rochus Urban Hinkel

Dr Rochus Hinkel is Associate Professor for Architecture and Design at the Melbourne School of Design (MSD) and founding co-director of the Advanced Digital Design + Fabrication (ADD+F) research hub at the ABP Faculty at the University of Melbourne. In his research and creative practice, he uses digital technologies to create novel narratives that manifest through artefacts, spatial installations, and immersive environments. He is the Chief Investigator of University of Melbourne teams developing creative digital design applications, e.g., in collaboration with the Royal Children's Hospital and on projects led by the Olkola Aboriginal Corporation. Rochus was Professor at Konstfack, Stockholm and OTH, Regensburg before joining MSD in 2020. He is the inaugural recipient of the UniSA, SIDA and DRF Curatorial Research Fellowship (2020-2022), recent works have been exhibited at Ars Electronica (2020), The Grainger Museum in Melbourne (2022), The David Roche Foundation in Adelaide (2022), and the Melbourne Design Week (2021, 2022, 2023).