Designing Social Innovation for Sustainable Livelihoods

Dr. Gavin Melles is Professor (Adjunct) of Sustainability and Social Innovation at Swinburne University’s Design School. He is currently (2021-2022) Senior Fellow in Sustainability in the Technical Design Dept. of Technical University Dresden. He is a research affiliate at the Centre for Design Innovations, the Manufacturing Futures Research Institute, and the Collaborative Research Centre for Low Carbon Living (2014-2019). His research and teaching interests include design education, sustainability, social innovation and related issues. He has held numerous international fellowships, most recently at Edinburgh University (2016), IIT Madras (2019) and Technical University of Dresden (2021).