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Lindy Joubert Editor

Lindy Joubert was a senior lecturer in Architecture at the University of Melbourne for 28 years (semi-retired 2020 and now Senior Fellow). Lindy’s academic activities are action-based research with collaborative partners. With student and professional groups, Lindy organised the concept design and development across 12 countries for education, health and cultural facilities and structures, including the Cook Islands; Mua Island, Torres Strait; Papua New Guinea; Gichocho, Kenya and for the Maasai Kenya. ‘Samiland’ for the Sami people in Finnish Lapland; the Tiwi Islands; Auroville, India; Los Palos cultural Centre, East Timor (Community Development Vice Chancellor’s Award and over one million dollars in funding granted in partnership with NGO). Lindy has had forty national and international exhibitions of paintings, six in New York City. She is the editor-in-chief of the UNESCO Observatory peer reviewed e-journal; an editor of the UNESCO Observatory Global Village Reading Series for Kidz Book Hub; writes and presents research papers and her edited book Educating in the Arts – the Asian Experience, Twenty-four essays is published by Springer and currently preparing six sequels: Educating in the Crafts – the Global Experience.