Chang Huang
Chang Huang
Chang Huang is an interior and graphic designer and design educator. She is currently an Assistant Lecturer in the Master of Design program at Monash Art, Design & Architecture, where she contributes to postgraduate teaching and curriculum development. She has also taught across undergraduate units in Spatial Design, Design Theory and Sensory Design.
She holds a Bachelor of Design (Spatial) from Auckland University of Technology. Following several years working in furniture and commercial interior design, she completed a Master of Design at Monash University, specialising in Collaborative Design, and was awarded the Academic Medal for Excellence in Graduate Coursework Study. She has also worked as a Research Assistant for XYX Lab at MADA, exploring Gender and Place, contributing to research and publication projects, including YourGround NSW.
Her creative practice sits at the intersection of spatial, industrial, and graphic design. With a strong emphasis on speculative futures, circularity, and experimental materiality, she investigates how design can respond to contemporary social and environmental challenges. She has a keen interest in the transformative potential of food waste as a material for the built environment. Through her work, she also explores the sensory and embodied experience of materials as carriers of personal and collective memory within architectural and spatial contexts. She is particularly interested in the complex relationships between identity and place, and how we can better employ human-centred and participatory design methodologies to engage diverse publics and ‘unknown others’.
Through her practice, she seeks to challenge conventional modes of spatial interaction, habitation and understanding. By integrating speculative, participatory, and materially driven approaches, she aims to provoke critical dialogue about how we might design more inclusive, responsive, and thoughtful environments for the future.