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Dr Cristina Garduno Freeman

Dr Cristina Garduno Freeman

Professor
Arts, Design & Architecture
School of Built Environment

Dr Cristina Garduño Freeman is a Senior Lecturer in Architectural History and Theory at UNSW.  Her research focuses on understanding, evaluating, and designing for, people’s connection with places contributing to the fields of architectural history, critical heritage and digital humanities in relation to contemporary cities, and Modern and Industrial Architecture.

In 2018 she published her first monograph with Routledge; Participatory Culture and the Social Value of an Architectural Icon: Sydney Opera House. In 2020 she was the CoChair for the Shared Cultures stream of the ICOMOS General Assembly, which was to be held in Sydney, and is currently the Secretary of the Society of Architectural Historians Australia and New Zealand (SAHANZ). She also holds an Honorary Research Fellowship in ACAHUCH at The University of Melbourne. She has worked in State Government in Heritage NSW and collaborated with Heritage Victoria and Lovell Chen. Prior to entering academia worked professionally in Architecture, Landscape Architecture and Visual Communication Design.
Phone
+61 2 9348 1176
E-mail
c.garduno_freeman@unsw.edu.au
  • Books | 2019
    Freeman CG, 2019, Foreword
    Books | 2017
    Freeman CG, 2017, Participatory culture and the social value of an architectural icon: Sydney opera house, http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781315599496
  • Book Chapters | 2025
    Leibowitz V; Garduño Freeman C; Carvalho L, 2025, 'Postdigital Conversations: Architecture, Imagination, and Language', in Postdigital Science and Education Switzerland, pp. 137 - 156, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-032-01539-6_8
    Book Chapters | 2024
    Garduno Freeman C, 2024, 'An Important Cultural Building of a New Kind', in Tzannes: Adaptive Urban Architecture and Design, Thames & Hudson, Victoria, Australia, pp. 416 - 423
    Book Chapters | 2021
    de Jong U; Freeman CG; Beza BB; Gray F; Novacevski M, 2021, 'Histories of urban heritage: Emotional and experiential attachments across time and space', in People Centred Methodologies for Heritage Conservation Exploring Emotional Attachments to Historic Urban Places, pp. 65 - 79
    Book Chapters | 2020
    Freeman CG; Beza BB; Mejía G, 2020, 'The urban Spanglish of Mexico City', in Routledge Handbook of Place, pp. 198 - 207, http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9780429453267-17
    Book Chapters | 2019
    Freeman CG, 2019, 'Hospicio cabañas: Seeing world heritage through google’s eyes', in Routledge International Handbook of New Digital Practices in Galleries Libraries Archives Museums and Heritage Sites, pp. 410 - 423, http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9780429506765-38
    Book Chapters | 2018
    Carvalho L; Freeman CG, 2018, 'CmyView: Learning by Walking and Sharing Social Values', in Networked Learning, Springer International Publishing, pp. 167 - 186, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-74857-3_10
    Book Chapters | 2016
    Freeman CG, 2016, 'Informal networked learning as teamwork in design studio cmyview: Using mobile digital technologies to connect with student's everyday experiences', in Collaboration and Student Engagement in Design Education, pp. 188 - 208, http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-0726-0.ch009
  • Journal articles | 2025
    Carvalho L; Freeman CG; Lamb J, 2025, 'Learning Spaces of Higher Education for Postdigital Citizens', Postdigital Science and Education, 7, pp. 246 - 265, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s42438-024-00504-1
    Journal articles | 2025
    Hurlimann A; Freeman CG; Nichols D, 2025, 'Installing solar panels on heritage buildings: an Australian case study reveals a vexed issue', PLANNING PRACTICE AND RESEARCH, 40, pp. 285 - 305, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02697459.2024.2443291
    Journal articles | 2025
    Leibowitz V; Garduño Freeman C; Carvalho L, 2025, 'Chatting with DALL-E in a Postdigital Architectural Classroom', Postdigital Science and Education, 7, pp. 965 - 984, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s42438-025-00576-7
    Journal articles | 2024
    Garduño Freeman C; Leibowitz V, 2024, 'Synchronous (In)significance: Recording Ukraine’s Cultural Heritage in Real-Time', Fabrications, 34, pp. 223 - 249, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10331867.2024.2383020
    Journal articles | 2022
    Carvalho L; Freeman CG, 2022, 'Materials and Places for Learning: Experiences of Doctoral Students in and around University Spaces', Postdigital Science and Education, 5, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s42438-022-00328-x
    Journal articles | 2021
    Garduño Freeman C; González Zarandona JA, 2021, 'Digital spectres: the Notre-Dame effect', International Journal of Heritage Studies, 27, pp. 1264 - 1277, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13527258.2021.1950029
    Journal articles | 2020
    Chavez Aguayo MA; Garduno Freeman C, 2020, 'Machismo and feminicide: Sharing culture and difficult heritage in Mexico', Historic Environment, 32, pp. 36 - 53, https://australia.icomos.org/wp-content/uploads/Machismo-and-feminicide-Sharing-culture-and-diff%C2%8Cicult-heritage-in-Mexico-vol-32-no-1.pdf
    Journal articles | 2020
    Freeman CG, 2020, 'In the Eye of the Beholder', ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN, 90, pp. 88 - 93, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ad.2595
    Journal articles | 2018
    Carvalho L; Freeman CG; Kearney A; Mentis M; Martinez-Maldonado R, 2018, 'Spaces of inclusion and belonging: The learning imaginaries of doctoral students in a multi-campus and distance university', Australasian Journal of Educational Technology, 34, pp. 41 - 52, http://dx.doi.org/10.14742/ajet.4483
    Journal articles | 2018
    Mahmoudi Farahani L; Beynon D; Garduno Freeman C, 2018, 'The need for diversity of uses in suburban neighbourhood centres', Urban Design International, 23, pp. 86 - 101, http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/s41289-017-0052-x
    Journal articles | 2016
    Carvalho L; Freeman CG, 2016, 'CmyView: Walking together apart', Proceedings of the International Conference on Networked Learning, 10, pp. 313 - 321, http://dx.doi.org/10.54337/nlc.v10.8885
    Journal articles | 2013
    Freeman CG, 2013, 'Participatory culture as a site for the reception of architecture: Making a giant Sydney Opera House cake', Architectural Theory Review, 18, pp. 325 - 339, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13264826.2013.890008
    Journal articles | 2013
    Stead N; Freeman CG, 2013, 'Architecture and "the act of receiving, or the fact of being received": Introduction to a special issue on reception', Architectural Theory Review, 18, pp. 267 - 271, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13264826.2013.902418
    Journal articles | 2010
    Garduño Freeman C, 2010, 'Photosharing on Flickr: Intangible heritage and emergent publics', International Journal of Heritage Studies, 16, pp. 352 - 368, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13527251003775695
    Journal articles | 1995
    FREEMAN CG; HERRICK DM; BRYAN DC; KURZ KL; MATHEWS DH; PERERA PAA; WOLFS FLH; ZANNI MT, 1995, 'NEW FOCAL-PLANE DETECTOR SYSTEM FOR THE ROCHESTER RECOIL MASS-SPECTROMETER', NUCLEAR INSTRUMENTS & METHODS IN PHYSICS RESEARCH SECTION A-ACCELERATORS SPECTROMETERS DETECTORS AND ASSOCIATED EQUIPMENT, 357, pp. 450 - 457, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0168-9002(94)01742-5
    Journal articles | 1995
    LITJENS RAJ; QUICKENDEN TI; FREEMAN CG; SANGSTER DF, 1995, 'THE EFFECT OF DEPOSITION RATE AND SAMPLE THICKNESS ON THE LUMINESCENCE EMITTED BY ELECTRON-IRRADIATED POLYCRYSTALLINE H2O ICE', RADIATION PHYSICS AND CHEMISTRY, 45, pp. 817 - 823, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0969-806X(94)00106-T
    Journal articles | 1988
    BAKKER MG; QUICKENDEN TI; VERNON CF; FREEMAN CG; SANGSTER DF, 1988, 'THE EFFECT OF CRYSTAL FRAGMENTATION ON THE LUMINESCENCE FROM PULSE-IRRADIATED H2O ICE', RADIATION PHYSICS AND CHEMISTRY, 32, pp. 767 - 772
    Journal articles | 1984
    FREEMAN CG; QUICKENDEN TI; SANGSTER DF, 1984, 'A SEARCH FOR H-3STAR EMISSION FROM ELECTRON-PULSE-IRRADIATED HYDROGEN GAS', JOURNAL OF PHOTOCHEMISTRY, 24, pp. 403 - 405, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0047-2670(84)80021-0
    Journal articles | 1979
    BONNIN CM; CADBY PA; FREEMAN CG; WARD AD, 1979, 'ACETYLENIC ACIDS .4. REACTIONS OF ALKOXY-SUBSTITUTED PHENYLPROPIOLIC ACIDS AND ESTERS WITH SULFUR HALIDES, PARTICULARLY THIONYL CHLORIDE', AUSTRALIAN JOURNAL OF CHEMISTRY, 32, pp. 833 - 847, http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/CH9790833
    Journal articles | 1978
    FREEMAN CG; TURNER JV; WARD AD, 1978, 'SYNTHESIS AND PRELIMINARY BIOLOGICAL TESTING OF SOME BICYCLIC GUANIDINE DERIVATIVES', AUSTRALIAN JOURNAL OF CHEMISTRY, 31, pp. 179 - 186, http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/CH9780179
  • Conference Papers | 2024
    Leibowitz V; Garduño Freeman C, 2024, 'Islands of the Past Remnants: Relics and Remembrance in the Popular Imagination', in Proceedings of the Society of Architectural Historians, Australia and New Zealand., SAHANZ, presented at The 40th Annual Conference of the Society of Architectural Historians Australia and New Zealand, 02 December 2024 - 04 December 2024, http://dx.doi.org/10.55939/a5413pn2do
    Conference Papers | 2018
    Freeman CG; Marfella G; Wilson G, 2018, 'From controversial design to heritage icon: Seidler's Shell House', in Proceedings of the 15th International Docomomo Conference Metamorphosis the Continuity of Change Idc 2018, pp. 612 - 614
    Conference Papers | 1989
    FREEMAN CG; MCEWAN MJ, 1989, 'LABORATORY STUDIES OF POSSIBLE INTERSTELLAR ISOMERIC IONS', in BOHME DK; HERBST E; KAIFU N; SAITO S (eds.), CHEMISTRY AND SPECTROSCOPY OF INTERSTELLAR MOLECULES, UNIV TOKYO PRESS, HI, HONOLULU, pp. 187 - 191, presented at SYMP ON THE CHEMISTRY AND SPECTROSCOPY OF INTERSTELLAR MOLECULES, AT THE INTERNATIONAL CHEMICAL CONGRESS OF PACIFIC BASIN SOCIETIES, HI, HONOLULU