Rate My Professor Charity Edwards

At Monash, Edwards teaches interdisciplinary courses in design studio, theory, and urban processes across the Architecture and Interior Architecture programs. She received the Faculty’s Early Career Teaching Award in 2016 for pioneering cross-cultural learning and teaching support initiatives. Edwards co-founded The Afterlives of Cities research collective, integrating architecture, astrophysics, digital fabrication, speculative fiction, and art installation, and is involved with Monash Urban Lab. Notable projects include the collaborative 'Future Fossil' public sculpture unveiled at the 2025 Lorne Sculpture Biennale and the Warracknabeal Creative Circuit makerspace. She served as an Early Career Reviewer for the 2019 United Nations IPCC Special Report on the Ocean and Cryosphere in a Changing Climate and contributed to the Women.Wikipedia.Design campaign, shortlisted for the 2019 Beazley Designs of the Year (Digital Category). Edwards has curated Victorian Architecture Awards exhibitions (2005, 2006), contributed to publications like Architect Victoria, Parlour, and IDEA Journal, and delivered invited public lectures on ocean urbanisation at geography, international law conferences, and cultural institutions. Key publications encompass 'Tomorrow’s More-Than-Human Miners of the Deep' (2024, University of Pittsburgh Press), 'from the horror of us and our surroundings': architectures of unbuilding in le dodici città ideali (2024, IDEA Journal), 'The Ocean In (Planetary) Excess?' (2019, Dialogues in Human Geography), and 'New Orbital Urbanization' with Brendan Gleeson for the International Encyclopaedia of Human Geography.