Ally Weinberger

Interior Architecture

Ally is an inspired 22 year old Interior Architecture student. Her personal hobbies include travelling, painting and dancing as these allow her to let loose, relax, explore and be her most confident self. Her passion for design stems from a young age, constantly rearranging and decorating her space. Ally began her studies at Swinburne with an Advanced Diploma of Building Design, where she gained an insightful amount of knowledge about building structure, codes, sustainability, materials etc. She loves all things interior design but throughout the Bachelor of Interior Architecture, she grew into particularly loving designing kitchens and bathrooms as she finds the material choices can completely transform the look and feel of the space. Over her time studying Design at Swinburne, she has been blessed to explore her creativity with a range of briefs, constraints and design goals. Ally completed a minor of Branded Environments which allowed her to take a look at branding in Interior Design, which is a skill she plans to take into the workforce. Currently, upon graduating the Bachelor of Interior Architecture, Ally is working as an Interior Design Intern at a small studio in Melbourne's South East. She aspires to design spaces which create an impact and solely change the user experience and feeling of interacting in the space. She values sustainability, functionality and materiality in design and hopes to take that with her along her career journey.

The Coterie Hostel Kitchen Interior

Museum of the Handmade Cafe Interior

The Coterie Corner Entrance Exterior

The Coterie Computer Library Interior

Australia Post Reception Interior

Acknowledgement of Country

The School of Design and Architecture respectfully acknowledges the Wurundjeri peoples of the Kulin Nation as the Traditional Owners and knowledge-keepers of the lands, waters and sky that surround us, where we work, learn, create, communicate and make place. We recognise that sovereignty has never been ceded and this always was and will always be Wurundjeri Country. We pay our respects to Elders past, present and to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people who continue to make a better world through design.

We extend our acknowledgement to the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander staff, students, alumni, real-life clients, and knowledge keepers, who have contributed to our own education diversity and growth. We will continue to ensure that staff and students respectfully honour ancestral connection to Country and Place in everything that they do.

We are dedicated to the notion of design to make a better world and we acknowledge that making tools, shaping place, sharing stories, making meaning, wayfinding and collaborating have long been and continue to be both central and integral to First Peoples' cultures. We recognize that Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples’ cultural contributions have continued relevance to design practice and commit to: reconciling ancestries of design and contemporary practice as well as pursuing culturally and professionally appropriate ways to engage with a diverse population of colleagues, industries and clients. In a time of treaty-making and voice we understand that there are overlaps between caring for Country and the sustainable production of goods, services, experiences, products and buildings.

Guided by the principles of respect, reconciliation, and reciprocity we undertake to indigenising and decolonising design practice by dismantling colonial structures and challenging biases that have marginalised Indigenous voices and design.

As students of SoDA you will be given opportunities to both engage with and educate yourself in Indigenous creative practices and cultural protocols through a lens of inclusivity, diversity, respect, mutual understanding, inter-cultural dialogue in all aspects of design practice. Indigenous people have been telling stories, making tools, and connecting to Country through visual media, placemaking and place marking for more than 60,000 years and these practices are part of an ongoing, evolving and live tradition.