Dr Louise Dorignon is a Vice-Chancellor's Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Centre for Urban Research, School of Global, Urban and Social Studies, RMIT University.

Her research focuses on emerging construction and building practices as a means to sustainable urban densification. Her publications have contributed to an understanding of apartment buildings as homes for a growing diversity of residents. Louise has collaborated with a wide range of stakeholders, from material manufacturers and builders, to architects, developers, policymakers, regulators and householders in Australia and internationally, especially in Europe. Louise’s VC Fellowship project (‘Factory-built homes: Investigating industry prospects and lived outcomes of modular apartment construction in Australia’) focuses on modular apartment prefabrication to analyse how it can enable the production of more sustainable and affordable homes and support everyday experiences of post-carbon housing in Australia.