Semester 1, 2013
With Dr Scott Mayson (Tuesday Afternoons) and Nigel Brockbank (Thursday Afternoons)
Keywords: additive manufacture | flexible design | bespoke production | crowdfunding
Technology evangelists imagine the future where you download and manufacture you own products straight from your own personal manufacturing machine, a future where the traditional industries no longer exist. This studio will allow
Tutor: Sophie Gaur
Timetable: Tuesday 2:30pm – 5:30pm
Location: 051.08.004
The course aims to direct and assist a methodology of understanding objects both in a contemporary and a historical context.
ThingSpeak is a course to get you to think about Objects and ‘things’ in relation to ideas, prejudices, technologies and history. It questions how we look at objects and
Heico Wesselius (M.Phil in Economics) received his Bachelor’s degree in Applied Economics from the Amsterdam Business School, The Netherlands. He worked for several leading management consulting practices in The United States, Europe and Asia.
Since 2005, he has collaborated with various strategic design consultancies and agencies in New York City, Amsterdam, London, Hong Kong and Tokyo.
Studio Tutor: Ronnie Lacham
Studio Timetable:
This studio will simulate a design manufacturing factory; students will work collaboratively as individuals in a team producing a product – furniture and objects. The studio will have two key learning outcomes. The first, understanding industrial manufacturing processes and interrogate these processes. The second learning outcome is how designers can generate
Studio Tutors: Scott Mayson & Simon Curlis
Studio Timetable: Tuesday 3:30 pm- 6:30 pm & Wednesday 12:30 pm – 3:30 pm
This studio addresses a client brief to develop affordable luxury products for Chinese Market. These product categories are Tea Thermoses and Desktop organising objects. As a Designer in this studio you are expected to generate and prototype designs that meet and extend
Youssef Tayeb & Jim Lavranos
The Studio is an RMIT Industrial Design industry project in conjunction with Shell Works a prosthetic product innovation company formed by Youssef Tayeb (Industrial Designer) and Jim Lavranos (Prosthetist/Orthotist)
The project’s primary focus is the design and development of a fixation system and a detachable and modifiable ‘shell’ or casing for prosthetic
With Simon Curlis
This studio tutorial is an industry based project collaborating with the Advanced Manufacturing Precinct (AMP), it is the first of a series of Industry Projects to be conducted in this way. The project involves the design development of a range of toys and accessories following the initial creative visualisation of core toys. The
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,
Tutor: Ronnie Lacham
Timetable: Tuesday 2:30pm-5:30pm
Location: 009.02.017
This tutorial will critically explore approaches and methods in design. It aims to undertake a careful, reflective engagement with a range of design thinking and approaches – to examine and create a dialogue between fiction and reality, irrelevant and substance. This subject does not attempt to define the design, but rather to reveal
Lecturers: Scott Mayson & Marcus Cher
Guest Lectures: Leading Chefs & Food technologists.
Research Partners: Melbourne Food Depot, Koko Black & more
Food is often consumed in order to sustain us through our day, but how often do we consider the food context within a dining experience? Modernist cuisine sits within a research context where restaurants like The Fat Duck &
