Jacqueline Keogh

Bachelor of Design (Architecture)

My name is Jacqueline "Jacqui" Keogh and I have just completed my final year of the Bachelor of Design (Architecture) course at Swinburne University. I have been interested in Architecture since I was in Primary School and studied Interior Decoration & Design at Box Hill Institute before having to leave the course early to grab a ‘temporary’ full time job. The job was in a Bank and after 11 years there, working my way up to an operations consultant role that required participation in many exciting projects, I decided it was time to hang up my banking boots and pursue my passion.

I am a designer for the living. My designs are centred around people and life – I like to create spaces that work on a functional level but also on an emotional level; spaces that leave you wondering or put your mind at ease; places that you can explore and constantly discover hidden delights. I am also fascinated by light and colour and would love to learn more about how light and colour effects your experience of a space.

On a personal note, I am a proud homeowner in the Yarra Valley where I live with my husband: Chris & border collie: Millie. I love to renovate and get on the tools as much as possible, it has been very empowering doing the work myself and I have found that it has given me valuable construction knowledge.

Gallery of Piers | Design Studio V 2021

Flickering Ferries | Design Studio IV 2021

Outside In | Design Studio II 2020

Plant 215 | Design Studio III 2020

Laneway Dwelling | Design Studio I 2019

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.