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Pioneering ‘humanitarian architecture’, promoting and preserving Indigenous Australian culture, and contributing to education – Esther Charlesworth has indeed travelled a long way, forging a distinct identity for herself as an architect who believes architecture can be an ethical tool for social change.
Dr Charlesworth is a professor in the School of Architecture and Urban Design at RMIT University, and also the academic director of the Master of Disaster, Design and Development degree, a study programme set up by her to equip students with the skills and knowledge to become humanitarian architects.
Following an architecture degree from RMIT and a stint with the City of Melbourne as a senior urban designer, she completed her Masters Design of Architecture and Urban Design at Harvard University in 1995, as well as her Doctorate of Philosophy at the University of York (UK) in 2003.