Industrial Design education at RMIT is primarily studio based. Through a series of studios over successive semesters students develop the ability to do the following:
- Develop a problem – brief
- Do research focused upon project
- Develop a response to a brief – solutions
- Visualise solutions as services and artefacts
- Demonstrate the viability and efficacy of design responses
Students choose their studios from a range of options offered each semester. Studio offerings have the following orientations:
- Service Orientation: Where the focus is upon Sustainability, Social Innovation, Health, Transport, Community Engagement
- Technology Orientation: Where the focus is upon Interaction Design, Universal Design/ ergonomics, Manufacture, Technical Innovation
- Object Orientation: Where the focus is upon Furniture, and Objects for the home.
Through these studio experiences students devise and undertake a complex design research project in their Honours year – these can be seen here: http://www.idprojects.rmit.edu.au/
See Pathways for more information, or go to RMIT Industrial Design Program.