Lecturers: Emma Luke and Michael Bentham
Studio Timetable: Tuesday 1:30 pm – 4:30 pm & Thursday 9:30 am – 12:30 pm
Research Partners, RMIT’s Micro/Nanomedical Research Facility and the Murdoch Children’s Research Institute
In 1999 Neil Gross, in an article for Business Week, brought an idea that had been sitting with technologists and futurists for many years into the wider
Studio Tutors: Juliette Anich, Jessica Bird & Soumitri Varadarajan
Studio Timetable:
Wednesday 3.30pm-6.30pm
Plus a week long intensive in week 4 (details to be confirmed)
Note: the studio may occasionally require alternative times for its weekly sessions
Research Partners: Victorian Legal Aid & Centre for Innovative Justice.
This studio is a must for anyone interested in social design, social innovation, change making, service design and making
Simon Curlis
Melbourne is projected to host 7.7 million citizens in 2051 as the population densifies and climate change creates more weather impacts with greater frequency, our transport systems and infrastructure will be overwhelmed. As such it is wise to observe mobility service systems that work in densely populated cities and more impactive conditions than we
Computational prototyping for industrial design provides a practical and theoretical immersion into the technical field of creating custom software to manipulate and control various forms of digital media. Industrial design practice increasingly engages in the integration of software in the products they design and the process by which they undertake design and research. Fields of
With Dr Judith Glover, Victoria Cullen and Margaux Hayes
This studio will investigate the potential for design research methods and practice to be applied to the genre of sexual health and wellbeing. While sex toys have been around for an extremely long time the field of design has ignored the potential of this important area of human
Studio Leader: Susan Cohn
Studio timetable: Tuesday 1.30 and Thursday 1.30pm
Industry Partner: Susan Cohn and Workshop 3000
Susan Cohn is an artist jeweller, designer and curator. She is creative director of Workshop 3000, an access metal working workshop based in Melbourne since 1980. Her broad experience of design and making has enabled her to combine traditional craft
Lecturer: Judith Glover
Ah…the humble porcelain bowl or cup…or is it? Could you make one? Could you make a thousand? Could you make any money? What else could you design and make if you understood the process—the possibilities of form, ornamentation and decoration not available in any other processes?
This studio will explore the rigours of slip-cast
Georgia Hutchison and Sophie Gaur
Book Lab addresses the spatiality, culture and intangibility of reading. The traditional artifact of the ‘book’ is transforming, mutating. New forms are celebrated: art book fairs, independent publishing, handmade books, podcast libraries, long-form and micro-publishing, twitter feeds, publication as exhibition, storytelling nights and reading rooms, book clubs, etcetera.
This studio explores and celebrates the
With Nigel Brockbank and Malte Wagenfeld
A new type of designer is being born: part craftsperson, part cyber technician; harnessing the possibilities of digital fabrication and using it for unintended purposes. They work alone!
In this elective you will work with the AMP (Advanced Manufacturing Precinct) and Craft Victoria to learn about and explore the possibilities of
Studio Leaders: Pierre Proske & Travis Cox
Studio Partner: Media Lab Melbourne
Studio Timetable: Tuesday 3:00 pm – 6:00 pm 100.05.006 & Thursday 9:30 am 12:30 pm 100.05.006
“We need a reflective urban unplanning, an understanding of the organic ways in how cities should work, the anarchy of the everyday. This is a vision of cities that values improvisation versus rigidity,
