Biography
Akari Nakai Kidd is an academic and scholar in Architecture at Deakin University, where she holds the position of Master of Architecture Course Director. She teaches in the fields of architectural design and design research, at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels. She received her architectural training from The Cooper Union in New York and completed her PhD studies at Victoria University of Wellington, NZ. Her cross-disciplinary work in research and pedagogy aims to construct a creative and critical dialogue between the socio-ethical responsibility of architecture practice, processes and interactions, and present-day societal concerns through the lens of affect (and extending to intersectionality). As HOME Strategic Research and Innovation Centre (SRIC) SEBE Deputy Director, her work firmly commits to community and industry engagement for value co-creation and meaningful co-design. She has published widely, including author of Affect, Architecture and Practice: Toward a disruptive temporality of practice (2021) and has worked in practice under architect Kengo Kuma (KKAA) in Tokyo, Japan.
Read more on Akari's profileResearch interests
- Home, house, and housing
- Story-telling and lived experiences
- Critical dialogue between architectural practice and education as both pragmatic and philosophical inquiry
- Counter-representational creative design processes
- Affect and Intersectionality
Units taught
S342 Bachelor of Design (Architecture)
SRD163 Thoughtscapes (Unit Chair, current)
SRD364 Superstudio (Unit Chair, Studio Leader, current)
S700 Master of Architecture
SRD755 Architecture Design Research Masterclass Part 1 (Prep) (Unit Chair, current)
SRD766 Masterclass (Supervisor, current)
SRR711 Thesis (Supervisor, current)
Conferences
Conference Papers (selection)
1. Telford, E., Nakai Kidd, A., and De Jong, U., 2023, ‘Andrew McCutcheon, Evan Walker and David Yencken: Tracing Cross-Disciplinary Understandings in 1970s Melbourne.’ In Proceedings of the Society of Architectural historians, Australia and New Zealand: 39, Crossings, ed. Julia Gatley and Elizabeth Aitken Rose, 577-591.
2. Telford, E., Nakai Kidd, A., and De Jong, U., 2022, ‘Beyond the 1968 Battle between the Housing Commission of Victoria and Residential Action Groups: Uncovering the Ultra Positions of the Melbourne Social Housing Crisis.’ In Proceedings of the Society of Architectural historians, Australia and New Zealand: 38, Ultra, 274-284.
3. Telford, E., Nakai Kidd, A., De Jong, U. and Jones, D., 2021, ‘What if… historical knowledge of cultural landscapes and its associated narratives offered an opportunity for cultivating a ‘sense of Australianness’ in architectural production in the 1960s-1980s? A Case Study of Hanging Rock, Victoria.’ In Proceedings of the Society of Architectural historians, Australia and New Zealand: 37, What if? What next? Speculations on History’s Futures, 590-602.
4. Nakai Kidd, A., and Salchow MacArthur, K., 2019, ‘Happy affect: harnessing chance and uncertainly in design practice.’ In EAD 2019 : Running with scissors : Proceedings of the 13th International Conference of the European Academy of Design 2019, Taylor & Francis, Abingdon, Eng.,1747-1760.
5. Nakai Kidd, A., and Rodes, S., 2018, ‘Historiographies of image-technologies in architecture at the turn of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.’ In Proceedings of Society of Architectural Historians of Australia and New Zealand: 36, 285-300.
Research groups
HOME Strategic Research and Innovation Centre (SRIC)
Awards
2015 Victoria PhD Submission Scholarship Award, Victoria University of Wellington, NZ
2014 Graduate Scholar Award, Common Grounds Publishing, USA, Design Principles and Practice Conference
2014 Victoria Doctoral Scholarship Award, Victoria University of Wellington, NZ
2006 The American Institute of Architects Henry Adams Medal and Certificate of Merit, The Cooper Union, NY, USA
2006 The Abraham E. Kazan Award for Urban Design, The Cooper Union, NY, USA
2001-2006 The Cooper Union Full Tuition Scholarship Award, The Cooper Union, USA
Publications
Circulation of home-emotions: The critique of architecture through reality TV
Akari Nakai Kidd, Jan Smitheram
(2024), Vol. 50, pp. 1-7, Emotion, Space and Society, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, C1
Designing for playful mobilities
Jan Smitheram, A Nakai Kidd, G Finch, E MacMaster
(2024), pp. 1-19, Applied Mobilities, Oxford, Eng., C1
Jan Smitheram, Akari Nakai Kidd
(2024), pp. 1-15, Television & New Media, Thousand Oaks, CA., C1
A tale of one city through three stories of ludic mobilities
Jan Smitheram, Akari Nakai Kidd, Ged Finch, Ewan MacMaster
(2024), pp. 1-15, Mobilities, Oxford, Eng., C1
URBAN-RURAL DIFFERENCES IN PRIMARY SCHOOL RESOURCES IN CHINA: A CASE STUDY OF YUNCHENG COUNTY
Wenwen Sun, Xin Hu, Akari Kidd, Zhuoran Li, Chunlu Liu
(2023), Vol. 27, pp. 120-132, International Journal of Strategic Property Management, Vilnius, Lithuania, C1
Jan Smitheram, Akari Nakai Kidd
(2023), pp. 1-16, Journal of Material Culture, London, Eng., C1
Supply-Demand Imbalance in School Land: An Eigenvector Spatial Filtering Approach
W Sun, D Murakami, X Hu, Z Li, A Kidd, C Liu
(2023), Vol. 15, pp. 1-14, Sustainability, Basel, Switzerland, C1
Homely mobilities: between 'immobility' and 'mobility' through tiny homes
Jan Smitheram, Jan Smitheram, Akari Nakai Kidd, Akari Nakai Kidd
(2023), pp. 1-16, Mobilities, London, Eng., C1
Elsie Telford, Akari Kidd, Ursula de Jong
(2023), pp. 1-15, SAHANZ 2022 : Proceedings of the 39th Society of Architectural Historians, Australia and New Zealand., Auckland, New Zealand, E1
Vanessa Whittem, Akari Nakai Kidd, Abdul-Manan Sadick, Astrid Roetzel
(2023), pp. 628-641, ANZAScA 2023 : Architectural Science and User Experience : Proceedings of the 56th International Conference of the Architectural Science Association 2023, Launceston, TAS., E1
V Whittem, A Roetzel, A Sadick, A Nakai Kidd
(2022), Vol. 218, pp. 1-26, Building and Environment, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, C1
Elsie Telford, Akari Nakai Kidd, Ursula De Jong
(2022), Vol. 38, pp. 274-284, SAHANZ 2021 : Proceedings of the Society of Architectural Historians Australian and New Zealand 2021 Conference, Adelaide, S.A., E1
A critical review of Biophilic design and its design framework
Archie Patel, Akari Nakai Kidd, Astrid Roetzel, Mark DeKay
(2022), pp. 22-31, ANZAScA 2022 : Architectural Science and User Experience: How can Design Enhance the Quality of Life : Proceedings of the Architectural Science Association 2022 conference, Perth, W.A., E1
Affect, Architecture and Practice: Toward a Disruptive Temporality of Practice
Akari Kidd
(2021), London, Eng., A1
Spatial mismatch analyses of school land in China using a spatial statistical approach
W Sun, H Jin, Y Chen, X Hu, Z Li, A Kidd, C Liu
(2021), Vol. 108, Land Use Policy, C1
Elsie Telford, Akari Nakai Kidd, Ursula De Jong, David Jones
(2021), pp. 590-602, SAHANZ 2020 : What if? What Next? Speculations on History's Futures, Proceedings of the 37th Annual Conference of the Society of Architectural Historians, Australia and New Zealand, Perth, Western Australia, E1
On time within an architectural community
A Nakai Kidd, Jan Smitheram
(2020), Vol. 29, pp. 5-27, Time and society, London, Eng., C1
Astrid Roetzel, M DeKay, A Nakai Kidd, A Klas, A-M Sadick, V Whittem, L Zinkiewicz
(2020), Vol. 63, pp. 275-291, Architectural science review, Abingdon, Eng., C1
Reliability of human environmental "sensors": Evidence from first- and third-person methods
A Sadick, A Roetzel, M DeKay, A Kidd, V Whittem
(2020), Vol. 186, Building and Environment, C1
'Vacant Geelong' and its lingering industrial architecture
M Lozanovska, A Kidd
(2020), Vol. 24, pp. 353-368, arq: Architectural Research Quarterly, C1
PopCycle: A mobile placemaking platform
Chin Khoo, Akari Nakai Kidd
(2020), pp. 26-35, AMPS PROCEEDINGS SERIES 21 : Rapid Cities - Responsive Architectures, Dubai, United Arab Emirates, E1
G Costin, A Nakai Kidd, T Simon, D Edwards
(2019), Vol. 37, pp. 699-717, International Journal of Building Pathology and Adaptation, C1
Happy affect: harnessing chance and uncertainly in design practice
Akari Nakai Kidd, Kelly Salchow MacArthur
(2019), Vol. 22, pp. 1747-1760, EAD 2019 : Running with scissors : Proceedings of the 13th International Conference of the European Academy of Design 2019, Dundee, Scotland, E1
Angela Kreutz, Janet Loebach, Akari Nakai Kidd
(2018), pp. 895-925, The handbook of contemporary Indigenous architecture, Singapore, B1
Celebrified homes: architecture and spacing celebrities
J Smitheram, A Kidd, S Lam
(2018), Vol. 9, pp. 375-390, Celebrity studies, Abingdon, Eng., C1
'Concrete drawing': an ethnographical study of design, matter and affect
Akari Nakai Kidd, Jan Smitheram
(2018), pp. 177-195, Ardeth, Turin, Italy, C1
A Nakai Kidd
(2018), Vol. 22, pp. 127-137, arq: architectural research quarterly, Cambridge, Eng., C1
Affective logic of competition images
Jan Smitheram, A Nakai Kidd, Scott Meekings
(2018), Vol. 33, pp. 264-279, Visual studies, Abingdon, Eng., C1
Mark DeKay, A Roetzel, Akari Nakai Kidd, Lucy Zinkiewicz, Anna Klas
(2018), pp. 1-25, IEC 2018 : Allies of evolution : Proceedings of the 3rd Integral European Conference, Siófok, Hungary, E1
A Nakai Kidd, Sanja Rodes
(2018), pp. 285-300, SAHANZ 2018 : Historiographies of technology and architecture : Proceedings of the 35th Annual Conference of the Society of Architectural Historians of Australia and New Zealand, Wellington, N.Z., E1
Kerstin Thompson Architects: Exploring affect in interior's sticky design process
A Kidd, J Smitheram
(2016), Vol. 7, pp. 111-134, Interiors: Design, Architecture, Culture, C1
Affect within design practice and process
A Kidd, J Smitheram
(2014), Vol. 8, pp. 33-42, International journal of architectonic, spatial, and environmental design, Champaign, Ill., C1-1
Designing for affect through affective matter
A Kidd, J Smitheram
(2014), pp. 82-91, Interstices: journal of architecture and related arts, New Zealand, C1-1
A Nakai Kidd, J Smitheram
(2014), pp. 27-29, IDEA14: Proceedings of the Situation Symposium and Exhibition, Melbourne, Victoria, E1-1
A Nakai Kidd, J Smitheram
(2014), pp. 94-96, Proceedingsof the 2014 Architectural Design Research Symposium, Venice, Italy, E1-1
Funded Projects at Deakin
No Funded Projects at Deakin found
Supervisions
Chayakan Siamphukdee
Thesis entitled: Conceptualising Sensitive Design Patterns in Adaptive Reuse of Industrial Architecture
Doctor of Philosophy (Architecture and Built Environment), School of Architecture and Built Environment