Andrew Stiff

Andrew Stiff

Senior Lecturer, Design Studies
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Details

  • College: School of Communication & Design
  • Department: School of Communication & Design
  • Campus: Saigon South Campus Vietnam
  • andrew.stiff@rmit.edu.vn

Open to

  • Masters Research or PhD student supervision
  • Collaborative projects
  • Membership of an advisory committee

About

Andrew Stiff has been in academia since the late 1990’s, working at University of the Arts London and RMIT University Vietnam, focusing on experimental and design courses.

Andrew’s creative practice is centered around at the medium of moving image and explores how the sensory experience of place can be reconstituted through experimental digital film.

Andrew is the research coordinator and HDR DA for the School of Communication & Design. He sits on the schools research committee and is responsible for HDR collaboration between SCD and the other DSC Schools.

Research fields

  • 3301 Architecture
  • 360604 Photography, video and lens-based practice
  • 360503 Digital and electronic media art

UN sustainable development goals

  • 11 Sustainable Cities and Communities
  • 12 Responsible Consumption and Production
  • 10 Reduced Inequalities
  • 13 Climate Action

Supervisor projects

  • Modernity slippage and archival memory - A drawing investigation into Vietnamese architecture and its embedded ideologies
  • 13 Jun 2024
  • Living together: Urban transformations in Ho Chi Minh City
  • 18 Aug 2023
  • Country X - Metaphysical Cartography for The Future
  • 20 Jun 2023
  • The use of statistical, digital and visual data in urban evaluation
  • 27 Apr 2023
  • Formaldehyde Manatees
  • 26 Apr 2023
  • Vertical Noise
  • 24 May 2021

Teaching interests

Since 2016, I have been a lecturer and now Senior Lecturer and Researcher at RMIT University, Vietnam, within the School of Communications & Design. I coordinate the Capstone 1 course for 3rd-year students, oversee School Research & HDR DA coordination, and supervise PhD candidates. Additionally, I serve as an external PhD examiner, having assessed candidates from both the University of Sunderland, UK, and Multimedia University, Malaysia.

Before this, from 2011 to 2016, I held the role of Deputy Dean and Senior Lecturer at RMIT Linton University College, Malaysia. During this period, I led research initiatives and managed the Research Centre for Creative Practice while delivering various graphic design courses and supervising student theses.

My earlier academic experience includes my role from 2003 to 2010 as PG Coordinator and Course Leader for the MA Digital Arts programs at Camberwell College of Arts, University of the Arts London (UAL), where I supervised several PhD students, one of whom successfully completed their doctorate under my guidance.

Beyond my core teaching responsibilities, I have been involved in collaborative international projects. Notably, in 2023 and 2024, I participated in the Common Design Studio, a collaboration with RMIT Melbourne, London College of Communication (UAL), and ELISAVA Barcelona. In 2022, I contributed to the Memefest project focusing on the production of space through food, and facilitated a workshop on mapping the city through the PlaceLab initiative.

Research interests

Andrew Stiff’s practice focuses on experimental filmmaking processes that explore the space between urban occupancy and the built environment. Through his studies of urban spaces, he shines a spotlight on the impact of culture on the development of dense and tight urban spaces. The films capture the creation of space through the values of family and community and offer an insight into how cities may develop in the light of urban migration. Andrew Stiff Lecturer at RMIT University Viet Nam, teaching within the School of Communication & Design. He has completed a practice based PhD at RMIT University, in the School of Graduate Research: Architecture and Design. The research was titled: ‘Moving Experiences: Video Observations of Ho Chi Minh City’.

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