Dr Naomi Hay

Contacts
Naomi’s research focuses on the role of design in strengthening communities of resilience for sustainable futures, where design is examined in the capacity of a change agent in the arena of community resilience and adaptive capacity in a changing climate. Naomi has a strong commitment to the development of socially and environmentally responsible design practice working on collaborative projects with community, industry partners, regional councils, and not for profit groups. Specifically, she has extensive experience across stakeholder relations, co-design processes, and best practice processes on multi-actor teams. Naomi's spatial design practice encompasses commercial and hospitality projects in Australia and South-East Asia.
- Member Design Institute of Australia
- Member Design Research Society
- Member Golden Key International Honour Society
Research interests
Design for Community Resilience, Urban and Regional Resilience, Co-Design/Participatory Design, Design for Disaster Risk Reduction, Design for Climate Change Impacts and Adaptation, Design Futures, Sustainable Design, Socially and Environmentally Responsible Design, Spatial Design, Socio-Spatial Inclusion.
Groups
- Researcher, Extreme events and future scenarios
- Researcher, Low carbon and resilient cities
- Researcher, Water and flooding
- Researcher, Risk, vulnerability and resilience