Dilip Chhabria is an automobile designer based in Mumbai – and working across India, United States and the Middle East. He trained in Transportation Design from the Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, California, U.S. and worked with General Motors USA in their Design Centre.
He is the founder of DC Design – www.dcdesign.co.in/ – a
Studio Tutors: Scott Mayson & Arthur Georgalas
Guest Critics: Simon Curlis Industry Partners
Studio Timetable: Wednesday 9:00 am – 12:00 pm & Thursday 12:30 pm – 3:30 pm
The studio focuses on future urban mobility that networks to provide universal publicly accessible transport between Melbourne and Sydney.
Rapid mass transit is a necessity for urbanised global communities, the Japanese Shinkansen,
Monday: 3.30 – 6.30 | room 45.01.003Wednesday: 11.30 – 2.30 | room 45.01.003
Lecturers: Dr Scott Mitchell and Scott Brewer
This studio is industry partnered with Art Processors (designers of ‘the O’ visitor experience at MONA). The studio asks students to design a new visitor experience for the RMIT Design Hub Gallery. Students will be supported in
Monday 11:30 – 2:30 | 45.01.05DTuesday 3:30 – 6:30 | 51.02.015
Lecturers: : Emma Luke and Jay Curtis
This studio explores the body as a site of interaction and expression. Located at the meeting of emergent digital technologies and contemporary jewellery design practice, the studio asks students to imagine, design, develop and prototype new wearable objects for
Monday: 11:30 – 2:30 | 045.01.005C
Wednesday: 3:30 – 6:30 |045.01.005A
Lecturers: Dr Juan Sanin and Ronnie Lacham
How can workplaces become a space for working, hanging-out and playing?
This studio is an experiment. We are going to challenge assumptions about how workplaces are supposed to function and look like, and we will collaborate with Oxfam Australia to run
Studio Tutor: Jonathan Ben – Tovim & Dani Storm-Hoogland
Studio Timetable:
Thursday 3:30pm – 6:30pm 045.01.005B
Wednesday 3:30pm – 6:30pm 045.01.005B
Designers sit at the nexus between idea and reality. Every choice designers make sets off a chain of events in the future life cycle of their products. This studio seeks to take young designers and expand their understanding of new
Lecturers: Dr Malte Wagenfeld (RMIT) & Prof Wolfgang Laubersheimer (KISD).
Partner: KISD (TU Koln)
This is a ‘Global Intensive’ exchange studio between RMIT and KISD, Cologne Germany. The studio will include two intensive mode sessions, in mid March KISD students will spend 2 weeks at RMIT, and then in early June RMIT students (you) will be in
Semester 1, 2013
With Youssef Tayeb
We are on the precipice of a personal manufacturing (r)evolution . The barriers to product manufacturing are falling fast and access to affordable, high precision machining need not be further than your work bench or your keyboard.
Records are now cut in bedrooms, their music videos shot in the basement. Software is
Jessica Bird is a designer and researcher motivated by working collaboratively to affect change. Since graduating with honours from Industrial Design, Jess has taught at RMIT and worked as a Project Facilitator at the Victorian Eco-Innovation Lab (VEIL) at University of Melbourne. She is currently the Co-design Lead at VicRoads and is focused on facilitating
Tutor: Emma Gerard: designer, singer, musician, and researcher at Melb Uni (VEIL)
Guest Speakers: Dave Roper (CEO Supa Dupa – ex CEO Crumpler),
Chris Ryan,
Michael Trudgeon
Supa Dupa Industries is a building venture between 3 friends who share
a common interest in recycling, repairing, art, integrity and affordability
in construction. We provide interior construction, fabrication,
architectural joinery and bespoke furniture manufacturing services
