Thea Davey

Hey I’m Thea! I’m an Industrial designer who isn’t afraid of executing creative ideas within projects. The work that I have aimed to create across my degree eludes to my adaptable skills and passion for not only creative, but technical aspects of design. With a strong sense of visualization, Ive been able to transfer my skills across project briefs and the design process. My passion for Japanese craft, plants, and textural materials has inspired me throughout my degree and am a designer who creates unique and inspiring products with personality and flare.

Pond- Honours Project

Pond is an in-classroom educational learning resource for Primary school children, that integrates horticultural education interactively into sustainable learning. The project aims to develop resources for teachers and parents that encourage kids to explore and discover plants under light and magnification. The product has been inspired by the green tree frog which creates an exciting and larger-than-life experience for children within the social school environment.

Kelp

Designed for Industry Partner AboutSpace Lighting. Kelp is an ambient and mood floor lamp designed for intimate and warm living spaces. The lamp has been designed to use existing globe attachments already in AboutSpace's line. The design has been crafted to suit the brand's identity and also offer customers a unique lamp with a kink of personality in its form.

Mucky Monster

Mucky Monster is a playful children's furniture design that encourages the good habit of picking up dirty laundry. It is a product that encourages good behaviour and habits through play. Mucky Monsters fabric belly expands when kids fill it up with laundry thus creating a transformative and sensorily rich experience through use.

Hanami

Designed for Industry Partner, Country Road Home. Inspired by entertaining in the springtime, and Japanese floral arrangements. The Hanami collection allows Country Road customers to decorate their spaces with seasonal arrangements. The final design focuses on minimal post-processing of a specified white-label product to reduce labour and cost of manufacture

Framed

This beautiful and unique mixer tap is designed to enhance the gallery experience. Framed is designed to suit public creative spaces, allowing artists to have their work showcased in a unique way for gallery visitors. The front profile of the tap is interchangeable, meaning artwork that is displayed in galleries can be attached to the tap for the unique gallery experience- to blur the lines of something that is new and unexpected in the public bathroom.

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.