[1] Pia maintains the creative research practice onomatopoeia, established in 2000,[2] and leads the cross-institutional Affective Environments Laboratory.
Ednie-Brown completed her doctoral thesis The Aesthetics of Emergence at RMIT in 2008 through the multi-disciplinary SIAL (Spatial Information Architecture Laboratory), where she also taught and was engaged as a researcher.
[5] Her "Avery Green", a small terrace house extensions and renovation in Melbourne designed as part of Ednie-Brown's creative practice, onomatopoeia, is an investigation into ideas about nonhuman personhood, transformation and ownership.
Analogous to the protected area Te Urewera, Ednie-Brown conceived of the house as self-owned,[6] having personhood, and designed it to correspond with the local ecology and geology.
[8] Pia was previously an Associate Professor in the School of Architecture at RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia,[9] where she taught and researched extensively.