Shifting environmental, political, social, cultural, demographic, and technical landscapes require new forms of inquiry, engagement, intervention, tools, and technologies.
These combined challenges require systemic approaches to design, and new forms and areas of research and teaching. We will educate our graduates to be able to operate nimbly in rapidly changing contexts, to recognise and explore new possibilities. This means equipping them with the knowledge, experience, and networks to build purposeful careers that can be adapted and updated over their lifetime.
We will research, propose, and prototype new modes of practice, oriented around care, equity, and impact. This includes leveraging the transformative potential of technology, while also identifying and addressing the potential pitfalls. We will develop new courses and research programs in strategic and systems design, with the aim of transforming and informing policy and design in government.
Latest future practice research
Projects
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AI Competency Framework for Construction Education: Bridging Industry Innovation and Academic Excellence
Developing comprehensive, industry-aligned AI competency standards for construction education to bridge the critical gap between academic learning and evolving workplace demands in an increasingly digitalized built environment.
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Design Making - Making Design
Design Making – Making Design presents design prototypes and creative speculations, developed by students in the Digital Design and Fabrication Electives (DD+F).
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Edible Urban Futures
Exploring how built environment design can contribute to the growing global concern of food security.
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Experiential, Adaptive Learning Tools for a Resilient Built Environment
The effects of climate change, inappropriate use and management of natural and human made resources, have combined with increases in urban populations interacting with natural hazards.
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Future Prototyping 2020
Future Prototyping 2020 virtual collection inspects, questions and showcases how the power of making is highly relevant in the 21st century.
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Innovation Infrastructure: Planning for Growth
This project aims to identify policy and practice actions to achieve effective innovation infrastructure planning in Australia.
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Peripheral Centralities: Lost, Past, Present and Future
Considering the meaning, form, dynamics and significance of peripheral centralities within an era of global extended urbanisation.
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Planning the driverless city
Autonomous vehicles may improve road safety, reduce car ownership, and reduce the need for parking. They may also entrench car dependency, encourage sprawl and shift investment away from vital public transport systems.
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Project Toria
Immersing visitors in visionary futures for Victoria's fashion, food, climate, tech, and urban design sectors.
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[RE]Maker
Exploring circularity in architecture through the transformation of surplus and waste into new materials.