Vanessa Mooney is a Melbourne architect and urban designer. She has recently completed a post-graduate degree in urban design. Her thesis, Monument Over Measure: Melbourne’s Urban Growth Boundary and Site-Specific Design explores how Melbourne’s expanding urban footprint impacts upon the landscape how it might be designed along the UGB to respond to the site and the rural/urban interface. The final design proposition explores strategies that investigate how the urban/non-urban threshold edge might be designed in a meaningful way.

As a practicing architect, Vanessa has developed a range of skills including project management, documentation development and delivery, strong visual, written and verbal communication as well as the ability to present in a group situation confidently. Her project experience, as both a team member and leader, includes a wide range of project types: infrastructure, cultural buildings, commercial and residential projects. Through her own experience as a sole practitioner, Vanessa undertook small-scale residential and industrial projects.

While undertaking her post-graduate studies Vanessa has developed her research and analysis skills, being able to source, collate and analyse a range of information and data effectively. She has had teaching experience at several design schools across Australia and is currently teaching at RMIT with a focus on urban design issues.

Vanessa regularly works with the following software: Autodesk ACAD, Microsoft Office Suite, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Indesign, Adobe Acrobat and EndNote Referencing Software.

Vanessa has a creative and practical mind that is genuinely interested in the broad range of processes, influences and outcomes of the built environment and public realm. She is a member of Australian Institute of Architects and has contributed as a jury member for the annual awards process. Currently, she is also a committee member of the Shire of Nillumbik’s Green Wedge Management Plan Implementation Advisory Committee.