Dr Kelly Greenop
Senior Lecturer in Architecture
School of Architecture, Design and Planning
+61 7 336 53845
Researcher biography
Dr Kelly Greenop is a senior lecturer within the School of Architecture and is affiliated with both the Architecture Criticism Theory History (ATCH) and Aboriginal Environments Research Centres (AERC) within the School. Her research has focused on work with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in urban Brisbane, using ethnographic techniques to document the place experiences and attachment, and the importance of architecture, place, family and country for urban Indigenous people. She also conducts research into the intercultural place heritage of the Brisbane region, and the urban cultural history of Brisbane's suburbs.
Kelly's latest research is in Digital Cultural Heritage, utilising 3D laser scanning of heritage environments and buildings in South East Queensland. She has been working with researchers from ATCH, School of Architecture, CSIRO and site managers at Queensland Parks and Wildlife Service to scan and archive fragile, remote and at risk sites, and research the use of scanning in architectural heritage practice.
With colleagues from AERC she has also conducted research into Aboriginal housing, particularly with respect to crowding and homelessness. Kelly's research has been supported by grants from the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies (AIATSIS), the Queensland Government, the Australian Federal Government and the Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute (AHURI).
Awards
National Trust (Queensland) John Herbert Memorial Award (best heritage project in the state) for Agency Programs, in collaboration with Queensland Rail, 2018
National Trust (Queensland) Gold Award for Agency Programs, in collaboration with Queensland Rail, 2018
Queensland Premier's Sustainability Awards for Heritage: 'Highly Commended' for Moreton Bay Digital Cultural Heritage Projects, 2014
Best Paper, Society of Architectural Historians, Australia and New Zealand Conference, 2013
Memberships
Member, International Association for People Environment Studies (IAPS)
Member, Society of Architectural Historians (US)
Member, Society of Architectural Historians Australia New Zealand (SAHANZ)
Member, Architectural Humanities Research Association (AHRA)
Member, Association of Critical Heritage Studies Member (Appointed), Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies
Publications
Book Chapters
Greenop, Kelly (2019). Taking my place/talking your place: race, research, and Indigenous architectural history. Speaking of buildings: oral history and architectural research. (pp. 154-172) edited by Janina Gosseye, Naomi Stead and Deborah van der Plaat. New York, NY, United States: Princeton Architectural Press.
Grant, Elizabeth, Greenop, Kelly, Refiti, Albert L. and Glenn, Daniel J. (2018). Introduction. The handbook of contemporary indigenous architecture. (pp. 1-22) edited by Elizabeth Grant, Kelly Greenop, Albert L. Refiti and Daniel J. Glenn. Singapore: Springer. doi: 10.1007/978-981-10-6904-8_1
Lane, Francoise, Lane, Andrew and Greenop, Kelly (2018). What’s the story? Contemporary indigenous architecture in practice in Australia. The handbook of contemporary indigenous architecture. (pp. 331-346) edited by Elizabeth Grant, Kelly Greenop, Albert L. Refiti and Daniel J. Glenn. Singapore: Springer. doi: 10.1007/978-981-10-6904-8_13
Greenop, Kelly (2018). Before architecture comes place, before place come people: contemporary Indigenous places in urban Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. The handbook of contemporary indigenous architecture. (pp. 527-550) edited by Elizabeth Grant, Kelly Greenop, Albert L. Refiti and Daniel J. Glenn. Singapore: Springer. doi: 10.1007/978-981-10-6904-8_20
Grant, Elizabeth and Greenop, Kelly (2018). Affirming and reaffirming Indigenous presence: contemporary Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander community, public and institutional architecture in Australia. The handbook of contemporary indigenous architecture. (pp. 57-105) edited by Elizabeth Grant, Kelly Greenop, Albert L. Refiti and Daniel J. Glenn. Singapore: Springer. doi: 10.1007/978-981-10-6904-8_3
Greenop, Kelly and Memmott, Paul (2016). We are good-hearted people, we like to share: definitional dilemmas of crowding and homelessness in urban indigenous Australia. Indigenous Homelessness: Perspectives from Canada, Australia and New Zealand. (pp. 270-299) edited by Evelyn J. Peters and Julia Christensen. Winnipeg, Canada: University of Manitoba Press.
Greenop, Kelly (2015). History receding: the complicity of Australian architecture in colonisation and beyond. Courting Blakness: Recalibrating Knowledge in the Sandstone University. (pp. 32-39) edited by Fiona Foley, Louise Martin-Chew and Fiona Nicoll. St Lucia, QLD, Australia: University of Queensland Press.
Greenop,Kelly and Memmott, Paul (2013). Aboriginal identity and place in the intercultural settings of metropolitan Australia. Indigenous in the city: contemporary identities and cultural innovation. (pp. 256-281) edited by Evelyn Peters and Chris Anderson. Vancouver, Canada: UBC Press.
Memmott, Paul, Greenop, Kelly, Clarke, Andrew, Go-Sam, Carroll, Birdsall-Jones, Christina, Harvey-Jones, William, Corunna, Vanessa and Western, Mark (2012). NATSISS crowding data: what does it assume and how can we challenge the orthodoxy?. Survey Analysis for Indigenous Policy in Australia: Social Science Perspectives. (pp. 241-279) edited by Boyd Hunter and Nicholas Biddle. Canberra, Australia: ANU E Press.
Greenop, Kelly and Memmott, Paul (2007). Urban Aboriginal Place Values In Australian Metropolitan Cities: The Case Study Of Brisbane. Past Matters: Heritage and Planning History - Case Study from the Pacific Rim. (pp. 213-245) edited by Caroline Miller and Michael Roche. Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Press.
Journal Articles
Marnane, Kali and Greenop, Kelly (2023). Housing adequacy in an informal built environment: case studies from Ahmedabad. Journal of Housing and the Built Environment, 38 (3), 2059-2082. doi: 10.1007/s10901-023-10029-x
Greenop, Kelly (2023). 33:1 editorial. Fabrications, 33 (1), 1-3. doi: 10.1080/10331867.2023.2247774
Greenop, Kelly (2022). Editorial. Fabrications, 32 (2), 1-3. doi: 10.1080/10331867.2022.2129115
Greenop, Kelly and Brugman Alvarez, Johanna (2022). Precarious housing, health and well-being across diverse global settings. Global Discourse, 12 (2), 247-254. doi: 10.1332/204378921x16337538509293
Zhao, Xiaoxin, Marnane, Kali and Greenop, Kelly (2021). The role of digital technologies in recording values of human settlements: testing a practical Historic Urban Landscape approach in China and India. Digital Creativity, 32 (4), 1-22. doi: 10.1080/14626268.2021.2001538
Shaweesh, Maram and Greenop, Kelly (2020). Aesthetic anxieties in the migrant house: the case of the Lebanese in Australia. Fabrications, 30 (2), 217-240. doi: 10.1080/10331867.2020.1749219
Yang, Chen and Greenop, Kelly (2020). Introduction: applying a landscape perspective to digital cultural heritage. Built Heritage, 4 (2) 2. doi: 10.1186/s43238-020-00002-w
Cordie, Troy P., Bandyopadhyay, Tirthankar, Roberts, Jonathan, Dunbabin, Matthew, Greenop, Kelly, Dungavell, Ross and Steindl, Ryan (2019). Modular field robot deployment for inspection of dilapidated buildings. Journal of Field Robotics, 36 (4) rob.21872, 641-655. doi: 10.1002/rob.21872
Zhao, Xiaoxin and Greenop, Kelly (2019). From ‘neo-vernacular’ to ‘semi-vernacular’: a case study of vernacular architecture representation and adaptation in rural Chinese village revitalization. International Journal of Heritage Studies, 25 (11), 1-20. doi: 10.1080/13527258.2019.1570544
Clarke, Amy, Dewi, Cut, Greenop, Kelly, Mozaffari, Ali, Slama, Khoo, Westbrook, Nigel and Winter, Tim (2018). Forum: Reflecting on the Politics of Patrimony. Fabrications, 28 (2), 256-271. doi: 10.1080/10331867.2018.1473011
Greenop, Kelly (2017). Women to the front. Architecture Australia, 106 (4), 65-66.
Greenop, Kelly (2017). Understanding housing precarity: more than access to a shelter, housing is essential for a decent life. Global Discourse: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Current Affairs and Applied Contemporary Thought, 7 (4), 489-495. doi: 10.1080/23269995.2017.1393788
Greenop, Kelly and Landorf, Chris (2017). Grave-to-Cradle: a paradigm shift for heritage conservation and interpretation in the era of 3D laser scanning. Historic Environment, 29 (1), 44-55.
Stead, Naomi and Greenop, Kelly (2016). Reporting from the (Australian) front: housing in extremis. Architecture Australia, 105 (5), 30-32.
Greenop, Kelly, Juckes, Emily and Landorf, Chris (2016). King George Square's Citizens: social media and the intangible cultural heritage of a Brisbane icon. Historic Environment, 28 (2), 26-43.
Greenop, Kelly and Darchen, Sebastien (2015). Identifying ‘place’ in place branding: core and periphery in Brisbane’s ‘‘New World City’’. GeoJournal, 81 (3), 379-394. doi: 10.1007/s10708-015-9625-7
Zlot, Robert, Bosse, Michael, Greenop, Kelly, Jarzab, Zbigniew, Juckes, Emily and Roberts, Jonathan (2013). Efficiently capturing large, complex cultural heritage sites with a handheld mobile 3D laser mapping system. Journal of Cultural Heritage, 15 (6), 670-678. doi: 10.1016/j.culher.2013.11.009
Memmott, Paul, Nash, Daphne, Baffour, Bernard and Greenop, Kelly (2013). Crowded out: a case study of homelessness, crowding and the Tennant Creek Women's Refuge. Parity: The publication of the Council to the Homeless Persons, 26 (4), 16-17.
Memmott, Paul, Greenop, Kelly, Haynes, Michele, Clarke, Andrew and Western, Mark (2011). The challenge of monitoring regional Indigenous homelessness. Parity, 24 (9), 31-34.
Memmott, Paul, Birdsall-Jones, Christina, Go-Sam, Carroll, Greenop, Kelly and Corunna, Vanessa (2011). Modelling crowding in Aboriginal Australia. AHURI Positioning Paper, i-52.
Greenop, Kelly (2008). Inala traditions: People, places and history in urban Indigenous communities. Traditional Dwellings and Settlements Working Paper Series, 216, 26-48.
Conference Papers
Holden, Susan, Paine, Ashley, Chaddock, Steven, Macarthur, John and Greenop, Kelly (2023). Building value: Assimilating environmental and cultural heritage frameworks. ICOMOS 21st General Assembly and Scientific Symposium: Heritage Changes, Sydney, NSW Australia, 31 August – 9 September 2023. Sydney, NSW Australia: ICOMOS International.
Paine, Ashley and Greenop, Kelly (2022). Archives and authorship: a case study on the impact of digital architectural collections. Building Data: Architecture, Memory and New Imaginaries, Delft and Rotterdam, Amsterdam, 23-24 November 2022. Rotterdam, Amsterdam: TU Delft and Het Nieuwe Instituut.
Shaweesh, Maram and Greenop, Kelly (2019). Experiencing house crowding in Australian dwellings: a multicultural perspective. 9th State of Australian Cities National Conference (SOAC 2019), Perth, WA, Australia, 30 November - 5 December 2019. Perth, WA Australia: Analysis and Politics Observatory. doi: 10.25916/5ec72422282e0
Zhao, Xiaoxin and Greenop, Kelly (2016). A preliminary investigation of the rammed earth houses in a vernacular village in China. 50th International Conference of the Architectural Science Association, Adelaide, SA, Australia, 7-9 December 2016. Adelaide, Australia: The Architectural Science Association and The University of Adelaide.
Cordie, Troy, Bandyopadhyay, Tirthankar, Roberts, Jonathan, Steindl, Ryan, Dungavell, Ross and Greenop, Kelly (2016). Enabling rapid field deployments using modular mobility units. Australasian Conference on Robotics and Automation 2016, ACRA 2016, University of Queensland, Brisbane, 5-7 December 2016. Australasian Robotics and Automation Association.
Greenop, Kelly, Stead, Naomi and Cheshire, Lynda (2015). Collaborating post-occupancy: teaching and learning across architectural design and sociology. International Conference and Exhibition of the Association of Architecture Schools of Australasia, Christchurch, New Zealand, 2-3 October 2015. Christchurch, New Zealand: Association of Architecture Schools of Australasia (AASA).
Greenop, Kelly (2015). Collaborating for heritage at the cutting edge of technology: 3d laser scanning cultural heritage sites in Queensland. International Conference and Exhibition of the Association of Architecture Schools of Australasia, Christchurch, New Zealand, 2-3 October 2015. Christchurch, New Zealand: Association of Architecture Schools of Australasia (AASA).
van der Plaat, Deborah, Holden, Susan, Stead, Naomi and Greenop, Kelly (2015). Re-evaluating the Australian dream: narratives of high-rise living in Torbreck. Society of Architectural Historians, Australia and New Zealand (SAHANZ) Annual Conference, Sydney, NSW, Australia, 7-10 July 2015. Sydney, NSW, Australia: SAHANZ.
O'Rourke, Timothy and Greenop, Kelly (2014). Self-constructing sovereignty: Aboriginal housing and rights to land on Stradbroke Island, Queensland, Australia. 23rd IAPS Conference, Timisoara, Romania, 24-27 June 2014. Timisoara, Romania: Universitatii de Vest.
Greenop, Kelly and Darchen, Sebastien (2013). Brisbane's urbanism: looking for an identity. What can we learn from Inala. 49th Congress of the International-Society-of-City-and-Regional-Planners (ISOCARP), Brisbane Australia, Oct 01-04, 2013. HAGUE: ISOCARP.
Greenop, Kelly and Darchen, Sebastien (2013). Brisbane’s urbanism: looking for an identity. What can we learn from Inala. 49th ISOCARP Congress 2013, Brisbane, Australia, 1-4 October 2013. Hague, Netherlands: ISOCARP.
Juckes, Emily, Greenop, Kelly and Jarzab, Zbigniew (2013). Isolation and segregation: an intercultural analysis of the Peel Island Lazaret. Society of Architectural Historians, Australia and New Zealand (SAHANZ) Annual Conference, Gold Coast, QLD, Australia, 2-5 July 2013. Gold Coast, QLD, Australia: SAHANZ: Society of Architectural Historians, Australia & New Zealand.
Greenop, Kelly (2012). Urban Aboriginal People's Place Attachment and Identification with Remote Home Country in Queensland, Australia. International Association for People Environment Studies, Strathclyde University, Glasgow, 24-29 June 2012.
Greenop, Kelly (2009). Place Meaning, attachment and identity in Indigenous Inala, Queensland. Perspectives on Urban Life: Connections and Reconnections, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies Conference, Australian National University, Canberra, 28th September - 2nd October 2009. Online: Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies.
Greenop, Kelly (2009). Housing and identity in the urban indigenous community: Initial findings in Inala, Queensland. Society of Architectural Historians, Australia and New Zealand (SAHANZ) Annual Conference, Auckland, New Zealand, 2-5 July 2009. Auckland, New Zealand: University of Auckland.
Fantin, Shaneen and Greenop, Kelly (2009). Sorcery and spirits: Intercultural housing and place in Aboriginal Australia. Society of Architectural Historians, Australia and New Zealand (SAHANZ) Annual Conference, Auckland, New Zealand, 2-5 July 2009. Auckland New Zealand: University of Auckland.
Greenop, Kelly (2008). Inala traditions: People, places and history in urban Indigenous communities. Twentieth Anniversary Conference of the International Association for the Study of Traditional Environments, Oxford, U.K., 12-15 December 2008. Berkely, CA, U.S.A.: International Association for the Study of Traditional Environments.
Greenop, Kelly (2008). Uncanny Brisbane: new ways of looking at urban indigenous place. Society of Architectural Historians, Australia and New Zealand (SAHANZ) Annual Conference, Geelong, Australia, 3-6 July 2008. Geelong, Australia: Society of Architectural Historians, Australia and New Zealand.
Greenop, K. and Memmott, P. (2006). Contemporary urban Aboriginal place values in Brisbane. 8th Australasian Urban History/Planning History Conference Past Matters, Wellington Campus, New Zealand, 9-11 February, 2006. Palmerston North, New Zealand: School of People, Environment & Planning, Massey University.
Newspaper Article
Greenop, Kelly and Barton, Justin (2014, 02 12). Scan, save, and archive: how to protect our digital cultural heritage The Conversation
Generic Document
Greenop, K. (2009). "Culture threads through time" Jettison Wove Exhibition Catalogue. Artisan Gallery, Fortitude Valley, Brisbane.
Research Reports
Carroll Go-Sam, Kelly Greenop, Kali Marnane and Maram Shaweesh (2024). Gununa futures: a report on housing, energy and town design in Gununa, Mornington Island, Queensland. St Lucia, QLD, Australia: The University of Queensland.
Go-Sam, Carroll, Greenop, Kelly, Marnane, Kali and Bower, Theresa (2021). Campuses on Countries: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Design Framework at The University of Queensland. Brisbane, Australia: The University of Queensland. doi: 10.14264/955791e
Memmott, Paul, Greenop, Kelly and Birdsall-Jones, Christina (2014). How is crowding in Indigenous households managed?. Melbourne, VIC, Australia: AHURI (Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute).
Memmott, Paul, Nash, Daphne, Baffour, Bernard and Greenop, Kelly (2013). The Women's Refuge and the crowded house: Aboriginal homelessness hidden in Tennant Creek. Evidence Note No. 39
Memmott, Paul, Nash, Daphne, Baffour, Bernard and Greenop, Kelly (2013). The Women's Refuge and the crowded house: Aboriginal homelessness hidden in Tennant Creek. ISSR Research Report Brisbane, QLD Australia: Institute for Social Science Research, The University of Queensland.
Memmott, Paul, Greenop, Kelly, Haynes, Michelle, Clarke, Andrew and Western, Mark (2013). The Challenge of monitoring growth in regional Indigenous homelessness: evidence note no. 23. Brisbane, Australia:
Memmott, Paul, Birdsall-Jones, Christina and Greenop, Kelly (2012). Australian Indigenous house crowding. Melbourne, VIC, Australia: AHURI (Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute).
Memmmott, Paul, Birdsall-Jones, Christina and Greenop, Kelly (2012). Why are special services needed to address Indigenous homelessness? Under the National Homelessness Research Partnership with the Department of Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs. Brisbane QLD, Australia: The University of Queensland, Institute for Social Science Research.
Memmott, Paul, Greenop, Kelly, Haynes, Michele, Clarke, Andrew and Western, Mark (2012). The challenge of monitoring growth in regional Indigenous homelessness. Canberra, Australia: Department of Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs.
Data Collections
Greenop, Kelly, Rodriguez, Carlota Marijuan, Darr, Jonus , Yau, Eric , Sou, Stephen and Chan, Jacky Tsz Wai (2017). Recording Fort Lytton. A digital and historical documentation. The University of Queensland. (Dataset) doi: 10.14264/uql.2017.371
Greenop, Kelly, Marijuan-Rodriguez, Carlota, Darr, Jonus, Barton, Justin, Roberts, Jonathan, Cuffe, Lachlan, Godfrey, Ben and Evangelista, Sean (2017). Recording the former penal settlement of St Helena Island. A digital and historical documentation. The University of Queensland. (Dataset) doi: 10.14264/uql.2017.364
Greenop, Kelly, Marijuan-Rodriquez, Carlota, Darr, Jonus, Juckes, Emily, Riddel, Dr Robert, Jarzab, Zbigniew, Sidonio, Luis, Lee, Melissa , Zhang, Simon , Thompson, Daniel , Sou, Ka Meng Steven, Chan, Tsz Wai Jacky, Ching, Wayne Tsun Yin , Feng, Wei-Hsuan Joe, Man, Merrick , Ou, Yu-Hung Johnny , Yau, Eric Kai Chun , Chan, Raymond Pak Kwan , Landorf, Chris , Chan, Yi-Lo Bonnie , Zhao, Xiaoxin , Yin, Max, Lamb, Timothy , Guan, Toni Jingwen and Roberts, Jonathan (2017). Recording Peel Island. A digital and historical documentation. The University of Queensland. (Dataset) doi: 10.14264/uql.2017.361
Theses
Greenop, Kelly Jane (2012). 'It gets under your skin': Place meaning, attachment, identity and sovereignty in the urban Indigenous community of Inala, Queensland. PhD Thesis, School of Architecture, The University of Queensland. doi: 10.14264/303688
Greenop, Kelly Jane (1996). Place and dwelling among the Pintupi People of Central Australia. Other, School of Geography, Planning and Architecture, The University of Queensland. doi: 10.14264/uql.2020.545