Natalie LIS
ABOUT
Casual Academic, Writer, and Entangled Human
I am located in Queensland, Australia.
I earned my PhD in the School of Architecture, Design, and Planning at the University of Queensland, Australia in 2025. My research explores how architecture influences bird and human relationships. I investigate how human-built structures such as chicken coops, cockfighting arenas, observation hides, sky burial sites and penguinariums act as an intermediary for material exchanges in addition to cultural and social symbolism. I works as a casual academic at UQ, tutoring architectural design, theory and history. I am also an editor at The Australasian Animal Studies Association (AASA).
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Wholesome humans reading group (Australasian Animal Studies Association – AASA)
This reading group was formed by members of AASA. It is strictly a non-work reading group that will meet every two months to discuss leisure reads. The aim of the group is to encourage each other to read for fun. This online space will roughly track what we have been reading, as a hopefully fun…
Care and the Development of the Penguinarium
I will be giving a talk on the history of the Detroit Zoo Penguinarium (1968) under the topic of Care and Aesthetics. The event is hosted at The University of Strathclyde, Glasgow. Tune in 18 March 2022 @14:00 GMT, a link to eventbrite is provided at the bottom of the page. Tickets are FREE!
welcome to the first post
a little about me An improved version of this text about me was published in the Australasian Animal Studies Association’s (AASA) Animail November 2021. I am currently in the last year of my PhD in the School of Architecture at the University of Queensland (UQ). I work in an avian centric home and cohabitate with…
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Weaving Warble 