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
Yan Huang
The Virgin Galactic project is the first of many companies that will make commercial space travel an imminent reality. In the not too distant future, one can expect to journey to the moon and back in a day.
The space travel capsule studio is an Advanced Design exercise to visualise the human experience when travelling
Studio Tutor: Ronnie Lacham
Studio Timetable:
Monday 9:30 – 12:30
Wednesday 13:30 – 16:30
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
Frank Feltham & Jeffrey Hannam
Three key challenges for sustainable living point to a pressing need for rethinking how the designed environment can better support physical health and well-being. With the advent of the compact city, it is anticipated that a large proportion of the Australian population will be living in urban centres in medium-to-high density
With Dr Malte Wagenfeld (RMIT) & Prof Wolfgang Laubersheimer (KISD).
Partner Program: Integrated Design, KISD (Köln International School of Design), Cologne University of Applied Sciences, Germany & Industrial Design.
KISD Cologne: http://kisd.de/en/kisd-online/
IMM Cologne: http://www.imm-cologne.com/en/imm/home/index.php
This is an exchange studio between RMIT and KISD, Cologne Germany. KISD students will visit RMIT in April and RMIT students will have the
Sophie Gaur lives in Melbourne, Australia after having moved from New Delhi in 2003. In 2007 she set up an independent studio, Sophie Gaur Studio, a continuation of her studio in Delhi where she works on a range of projects designing books, illustrating, book-binding, creating pin-hole cameras and crafting bespoke objects.
Having graduated from The National
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,
Lecturer: Rob Eales
Partners: Victorian Farmer’s Federation
Wednesday 9.30 until 12.30 and Thursday 5.00pm until 8.00pm
During this studio we will be working with the Victorian Farmers Federation and regional communities in Victoria to explore how to overcome the social and economic isolation that comes with low to no Internet access. If we sidestep the idea that the
Lecturer: Stuart McFarlane with guest researchers from the School of Media and Comms, RMIT University
Studio Timetable: Monday 5:30 pm – 8:30 pm & Wednesday 1:30 pm – 4:30 pm
Sleep has been a subject of research for several centuries. Current research estimates that there are over one hundred different types of sleep disorders, all of which vary
Studio Leaders: Scott Mayson & Dustin Bailey
Studio Time & Location: Wednesday 5:30 pm 8:30 pm 100.06.06 & Thursday 9:30 – 12:30 pm 100.05.007
This studio explores future of design practice, one that is situated within the premise: How will we as designers utilize digital tools to design out future world. Immersive Büro will explore latest digital developments with specific interactive
