ProfessorTuba Kocaturk

Head of School

Faculty of Science Engineering and Built Environment/School of Architecture and Built Environment

  • Head of School
    Faculty of Science Engineering and Built Environment/School of Architecture and Built Environment
  • +61 3 522 73128 (Work)
  • Geelong Waterfront Campus, 1 Gheringhap Street Geelong, Victoria 3220

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Circular Urban Economy | Circular Cities

Human Building Interaction (HBI)

Smart Cities and Urban Resilience

Design Cognition and Computation

Spatial Computation and MR in Built Environment

Digital Heritage and Augmented Storytelling

Intelligent Built Environments

Human-Centric Sensing and Ambient Intelligence

Design Thinking / System Thinking / Transdisciplinarity

Guest Editor, Journal of Smart and Sustainable Built Environment Special Issue: Sustainable Urban Futures: Digital Technologies Enabling Circular Economy in Cities, to be published in 2025.

Guest Editor, Journal of BRI Special Issue: "Embracing Digital Transformation to Combat Climate Change: Insights into Organizational Change Management in the Built Environment", to be published in 2025.

Guest Editor, Journal of BRI Special issue: "Towards Towards a Circular Transition of the Built Environment: Systemic and
Transdisciplinary Models, Methods and Perspectives", published in 2022.

Guest Editor, Journal of Architectural Engineering and Design Management, Special Issue on "Intelligent Building Paradigm and Data-Driven Models of Innovation", published in 2019.

Editorial Board member, International Journal of Architectural Computing, publisher: SAGE (since 2014)

Editorial Board Member of Journal of Building Research & Information, publisher Taylor & Francis (since 2018)

Editorial Board Member of Global Epistemics, a transdisciplinary book series established through a partnership between gloknos and Rowman & Little field International (since 2019)

GRANTS

  • INTERNAL GRANT
    Circular Campus Intelligence: Optimising Space, Assets, and Energy Through Integrated Campus Data Systems
    School of Architecture and Built Environment1 May 2026 - 30 Nov 2026
    People funded by this grant:
  • GRANT
    Advanced manufacturing innovation strategy and feasibility to catalyse large-scale prefabricated dwelling adoption
    8 Dec 2025 - 15 Sep 2027
    People funded by this grant:
    AFWI - Australian Forest and Wood Innovations - EOINOCRD20098
  • GRANT
    Co-Creating a Country-Centred Circular Economy (CC-CE) Framework
    24 Jul 2025 - 17 Jun 2030
    People funded by this grant:
    Regen Melbourne Limited - $30,000.00
  • CONTRACT RESEARCH
    VR Wayfinding Visitor and Customer Experience VR Assessment Model.
    6 Mar 2024 - 23 Dec 2024
    People funded by this grant:
    ID Laboratory Pty Ltd - $61,000.00
  • CONTRACT RESEARCH
    Building Information Modelling Added Value Dashboard Project
    18 Aug 2023 - 2 Oct 2023
    People funded by this grant:
    • Tuba Kocaturk
    BECA Pty Ltd - $6,765.42
  • GRANT
    Empowering Human within the Metaverse CSIRO Next Generation Emerging Technologies Graduate Program
    5 Jan 2023 - 8 Jun 2028
    People funded by this grant:
    CSIRO Scholarship - Next Generation Graduates Program - $1,826,514.00
  • CONTRACT RESEARCH
    A Spatially Intelligent Arts Centre.
    25 Oct 2021 - 30 Nov 2022
    People funded by this grant:
    • Kocaturk T,
    • Greuter S,
    • Wang R
    The Trustee for Geelong Performing Arts Centre Trust - $230,000.00
  • GRANT
    (In)tangible Heritage of the Greater Geelong: Public City Space as Virtual Museum
    27 Jan 2021 - 30 Jun 2021
    People funded by this grant:
    • Kocaturk T,
    • Kaljevic S,
    • Mazza D
    City of Greater Geelong - $20,000.00
  • CONTRACT RESEARCH
    Application Framework for Graphene Sensing Technology
    14 Apr 2020 - 16 Apr 2021
    People funded by this grant:
    • Kocaturk T,
    • Wang R
    Department of Industry, Innovation and Science - $50,000.00
  • CONTRACT RESEARCH
    Application Framework for Graphene Sensing Technology
    14 Apr 2020 - 16 Apr 2021
    People funded by this grant:
    • Kocaturk T,
    • Wang R
    Imagine Intelligent Materials Ltd - ICG001339 - $99,997.00
  • CONTRACT RESEARCH
    A Prototype of Railway Traffic Construction BIM Parametric Modelling System with VR/AR Extension (TBV)
    25 Jul 2019 - 31 Oct 2019
    People funded by this grant:
    • Wang R,
    • Wang J,
    • Kocaturk T
    Shanghai Langjia Traffic Environment Technology Co Ltd - CONTR2019/01417 - $30,000.00
  • CONTRACT RESEARCH
    Experiencing (In) tangible Heritage through eXtended reality (XR).
    15 Jul 2019 - 15 Oct 2019
    People funded by this grant:
    • Tuba Kocaturk
    City of Greater Geelong - Creative Communities Grants - CONTR2019/01317 - $20,250.00