Nguyen Dan

I’m Dan Nguyen, a Bachelor of Interior Architecture from Swinburne University of Technology. My design approach prioritizes functionality, comfort, and practicality for users, with aesthetics as a key focus. I believe in continual improvement and that small details can create significant impact. My strengths include adaptability, attention to detail, time management, and technical skills to convey my ideas effectively.

Handmade museum

The project encourages the exploration of local, handmade, and sensory-focused design.

The photographic film emulsion co-working space

A co-working space designed specifically for independent filmmakers.

The photographic film emulsion gallery

The concept draws inspiration from photographic film emulsion, using semi-translucent polycarbonate in red, blue, and yellow

CíNe collab

The community center supports and connects people who work and care about the independent film industry.

Swinburne student village

The project focuses on designing shared housing in a Swinburne Student Village, providing an alternative to conventional student accommodation.

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.