As an interior designer, Iva Durakovic has over 10 years’ experience designing high-profile, award-winning workplace projects. Her research program builds knowledge on the design, behavioural impacts and phenomenology of high-performance workplaces, evaluating the environments and their cultures to understand the human factors at play across individual, physical and organisational levels, particularly within emergent post 2020 workplace contexts. Iva leads the Workplace stream at the Sustainable and Healthy Environments (SHE) Lab, and faculty program of work-integrated learning (WIL) at UNSW enabling the blending of research, industry and WIL to foster employment and knowledge exchange between leading practitioners, academics, and next-generation designers.

In Industry, her research sits at the forefront of current experimentation in hybrid workplace solutions informing high profile projects such as Mirvac’s Adaptive Workplace Pilot. Experience in strategic design translation and intimate knowledge of new ways of working enables Iva’s continued contributions to expert advisory groups for the International WELL Building Standard (IWBI’s Movement Concept Advisory) and Green Building Council of Australia expert reference panel (New Fit-outs).