Studio Lecturer: Frank Feltham (RMIT)
Guest Lecturer: Joshua Batty (RMIT)
Research Partners: Lian Loke (Design Lab, The University of Sydney) and Jodie McNeilly (Monash University)
Three key challenges for healthy sustainable living point to a pressing need for rethinking
with Ronnie Lacham
STUDIO EDGE2EDGE aims to design “furniture” to initiate a dialogue between design manufacturing and community skills. The main focus of this studio is to develop a stronger understanding of the design process from a concept to the complete product. Students will research tessellated patterns, design a large scale 1:1 prototypes seating furniture. The design ideas will be
Tim Denshire-Key is an independent designer based in Melbourne. His practice currently spans a number of areas from bespoke furniture to exhibition design. He works across a range of projects that have social/ sustainability outcomes at their core.
Industrial Designer, conscientious citizen and proud father
Having completed a Bachelor of Industrial Design in 1998, he has travelled a diverse path through design.
Upon graduation, he worked on computer games for two Melbourne based game design companies. Later moving on to freelancing and working within his own business on projects as varied as TV commercials, 3D
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 rigors of slip-cast production.
Lecturers: Dr Malte Wagenfeld & Simone Steel
The SynAestheia designlab investigates the design of objects, systems, environments, experiences and spaces which present the user with a multitude of sensory data; tactile, olfactory, auditory, kinaesthetic and so on, as well as temporal dimensions; to create what may be called a hyper-sensorial design paradigm.
Theme 1: Healthcare – Consider
Working alongside practising designers Dale Hardiman and Adam Lynch of Dowel Jones, Design for Distribution (Furniture and Lighting) will work with one of Australia’s leading furniture distributors Cafe Culture + Insitu as a client to produce a piece/s of furniture or lighting with the intention of distribution. Market research has long been a tiring task
Tutor: Rob Eales
Friday 1:30 – 4:30
As designers, we are expected to work rationally and reasonably. However, there are other ways to design and by shifting our viewpoint and considering the absurd, the ridiculous and the silly we can develop alternative ways of designing and other ideas about the practice and roles of designers.
During the course,
with Ed Linacre and Victor Legin
This studio is lead by the founders of Copper Industrial Design, who specialise in developing products for local manufacture and international promotion. Lighting offers a deceptively simple yet sophisticated product to learn a series of production and commercial skills through.
The Studio will focus on developing your Design process in the
Studio Leaders: Trevor Streader & Leah Heiss
Studio Timetable:
Monday | 11:30 – 2:30 pm | 9.03.005B
Thursday | 3.30 – 5:30 pm | 9.03.006A
Studio Partner: Science Gallery Melbourne
Note: This is a cross-disciplinary studio with Communications Design *CAPED at 10 ID students.
Science Gallery Melbourne will be a bold addition to our city, exploring the collision of art and
