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Doina Carter

Programme Leader MA Interior Environment Design
Senior Lecturer
London School of Film, Media and Design
doina.carter@uwl.ac.uk

Doina Carter is an architect and senior lecturer in architecture and interior design. Her pedagogy is informed by experience in practice - making theory relevant to practice underpins her approach to teaching and research. Research interests include architectural theory, image production for design and documentation and pedagogic (action) research, participatory and experiential learning, live project and communities of practice. With published work, in leadership roles and involvement in compliance and quality assurance processes, she has been actively taking part in the debate on architectural and design education.

Background

Doina worked in practice mostly in commercial offices (Foster + Partners, EPR architects), on projects of different typologies and scales: offices, housing, masterplans, commercial and mixed developments, from the competition and feasibility stages to completion. She was a visiting and part-time tutor for the University of Sheffield and Middlesex University and started working in academia full time in 2006, after joining the University of Lincoln. Her roles included: School Director of Teaching and Learning for the Lincoln School of Architecture and the Built Environment (LSABE), MArch Programme Leader, LSABE Senior Tutor.

Architecture and Interior Design studio tutor

  • BArch [University of Lincoln, Sheffield], MArch [University of Lincoln], BA Interior Design [Middlesex University]
  • Hong Kong Design Institute [UoL year 3 link tutor]
  • MArch International [UoL]


Lecturer:

  • humanities [BArch], urban design [BArch + MArch], technical studies [BArch + MArch]

International tutor:

  • University of Universities [UoU]

  • Qualifications

    • MArch Architecture and Urban Design,
    • PGDip Professional Practice in Architecture,
    • MSc Applied Computing Technology,
    • PGCE HE.
       

  • Awards

    University of Lincoln Individual merit award (2018)

  • Memberships

    ARB (Architects’ Registration Board)
    Senior Fellow of HEA (Higher Education Academy)

Research

  • Research and publications

    Carter, D. (2023). Fluid boundaries: Architectural tool kits for water-lands. UOU Scientific Journal, (05). https://revistes.ua.es/uou/article/view/25197

    Carter, Doina (2022) Of gateways and portals, in University of Universities Scientific Journal, Issue 2: Follies, p. 174-193. ISSN 2697-1518

    Carter, Doina (2021) in OTHER worlds: the Woodhall Spa project. University of Lincoln, Lincoln. ISBN 9781860502637

    Carter, Doina and Kolakowski, Marcin (2020) The Ship of Theseus - a paradox fit for Master of Architecture students. In proceedings: 6th International E-Conference on New Trends in Architecture and Interior Design Istanbul, 16-18 October 2020. ISBN: 978-605-66506-9-7

    Carter, Doina (2018) The humanist Don Quixote and the windmills of sustainability. In: Transformative pedagogies and the environment: creative agency through contemporary art. Transformative Pedagogies in the Visual Domain, p.139-160. Common Ground Research Networks, Champaign, IL. ISBN 9781863350105

    Kolakowski, Marcin and Carter, Doina (2018) Lincoln's Orgone accumulator: The question concerning life and architecture. Parasol: Journal of the Centre for Experimental Ontology, p. 41-62. ISSN 2515-2920

  • Conferences

    Carter D. (2023) From portals and gateways to time machines, presented at: SArPe Stories of Situated Pedagogies in Architecture and… conference, 3-4 Oct 2023, Istanbul Technical University.

    Carter D. (2022) Student as producer in Lincolnshire: how BArch students helped re-map the future for a local charity, presented at: RAISE conference, 7-8 Sept 2022, University of Lincoln.

    Zhao J., Carter D., Wiggin J. (2022) The No-fly Flying Faculty: the Future for Inter-continental Partnership and Internationalisation, presented at: DigiED: Futures conference, 30 March-1 April 2022, University of Lincoln.

    Carter, Doina (2015) [light/box]project: an interdisciplinary collaboration for production and transference of knowledge and skills between Architecture & Contemporary Lens Media (CLM) 1st year students, presented at: EFYE conference, 15-17 June 2015, Bergen, Norway.

    Carter, Doina (2014) Coordinating change: introducing pluralism in the assessment of a humanities module for improved engagement and attainment of first year architecture students. In proceedings: EFYE (European First Year Experience), 11-13 June 2014, Nottingham Trent University. ISBN 9780993111204

    Carter, D., Verity A. (2013) The [light/box] project: Towards student-led interdisciplinarity, presented at the 4th International Conference on The Image, 18-19 Oct 2013, Chicago.

    Exhibition

    Carter D. (2022) RIBA China Chapter: Women in Architecture Digital Nexus 2022 Exhibition _She is an Architect, Category B Academic Research IOW_Doina Carter.pdf (network.uni)

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