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Monash Art Design & Architecture (MADA)
We're a connected community of creative thinkers, makers and professional practitioners.
Why study at MADA?
Creativity will become one of the top three skills workers will need in the future. At MADA you’ll be guided by industry practitioners to develop the skills valued by employers such as critical and reflective thinking, problem solving and mental agility.
Undergraduate
Turn ideas into reality. There’s nothing like the feeling of seeing your vision come to life. Explore new concepts and develop key technical skills. Our undergraduate courses provide the foundation for any creative career.
Postgraduate
Take the next step. Amplify your creative potential with a masters by coursework. You'll develop new skills, enrich your expertise and enhance your career options.
Fine Art
Fine Art provokes thought, inspires action, and responds to the important challenges of our time. We find meaning in a complex field of visual information and experiences, igniting discussion and creating unique perspectives on the complex problems of society.
Design
Design is the means to navigate complex business, environmental and social problems, and stay on the leading edge of change. Designers are concerned with the expanded practice of making human-centred solutions that are both tangible and intangible. Designers make the future possible.
Architecture
Architecture at Monash focuses on the bigger picture. We see architecture, urban design, and urban planning as an integrated whole. We understand buildings within their larger urban or regional environment, and consider cities in the context of a changing planet. Architects imagine the new environments of the future.
Research
At MADA, we provide a lively and supportive environment for individual and collaborative research projects to be realised.
Student work
Be amazed by a kaleidoscope of projects. Experience diverse views of the world through the eyes of our students and staff.
Latest news from MADA
Monash researchers to explore automated decision-making technologies in new ARC centre
Monash researchers will play a key role in a new Australian Research Council (ARC) centre examining the use of automated decision-making technologies across the healthcare, social services, transport and media industries.
Interdisciplinary artist awarded Monash University’s highest academic honour for PhD research
Monash University lecturer in sound studies and PhD laureate David Chesworth has been awarded the Mollie Holman Medal for thesis excellence.
Image (Why study at MADA?): Tegan Bell, 2009-2016 (installation view), 2016
Image (Postgraduate): Samantha Barry, Sean Malikides, Din Hearth, and MADA students, THRIVE, 2016
Image (Research): Peter Wang, An Autonomous Driverless Public Transport
Image (Student work): Rosina Prestia, I Adjust to Orange (detail), 2016
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Great work @profDaphneFlynn and the team at @monashada Design Health Collab who are using people-centred design app… https://t.co/dVtR2E9PcE
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Great work Dr Gill Matthewson 👏 and @xyxlab Find out more on Dr Matthewson's research and the work @xyxlab are d… https://t.co/NMPRtQ4evH
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Jenga Orchard Tower by our Fifth year Master of Architecture student @duyquangphan ⭐️⭐️ . See amazing work from our students at #MADANOW #graduateexhibition 22-30 Nov Caulfield Campus ・・・ Jenga Orchard Tower The city's self-support food factory Melbourne Cool lines Design and visual: @duyquangphan . . . . . #architecturestudent #architecturestudents #critday #actofmapping #showitbetter #axomadness #architecturedrawing #architecturalvisualization #architecturedesign #melbournearchitects #melbournearchitecture #australianarchitects #australianarchitecture #allofarchitecture #monashada #madanow #madanow2019 #axonometricdrawing #axonometric #axonometricillustration #architecturedrawings #archmodel #architecturemodel #physicalmodel #thearchiologist #MonashADA
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Internationally recognised artist and our Associate Dean of Education Daniel von Sturmer’s permanent public artwork 'Painted Light’ has gone live as part of the launch of Geelong's new Performing Arts Centre. The work spans two-thirds of the building’s CBD facing exterior wall and stretches from the base of the first floor to the crest of the rooftop. Daniel filmed multiple versions of dripping paint, one colour slowly sliding down over another, and then converted those video sequences into light using LED technology. This project was produced by Monash Art Projects. Scroll through our news section to read the article on Daniels artwork monash.edu/mada/news #MonashADA #MonashFineArt #MelbourneArt
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Our design students are finishing up with assessment and gearing up to showcase their work at #MADANow graduate exhibition from 22-30 Nov at Caulfield campus. From digital to illustration, branding and identity to 3D animation, our emerging communication designers have honed their skills to work across a range of platforms of production. Video credit: Third year Communication Design student @erinflatters.design digital work received the Global Top Talent Award in Adobe's Design Achievement Awards 2019, an International student design competition. See it all and more at #MADANow monash.edu/mada/events/mada-now-2019 #MonashADA #MonashDesign
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Last days. Closing tomorrow Saturday 9 November. Visit us to enjoy the wonderful exhibition by our PhD candidate, 'Anne-Marie May: Making and Undoing'. Anne-Marie's work explores the acts of making and undoing, forming and unforming which inhabit many aspects of her studio practice - from materials and fabrication procedures to the evidence of thinking processes through to the presentation of the artworks. Monash University Art, Design and Architecture, MADA Gallery, Caulfield Campus. monash.edu/mada/events/Anne-Marie-May-Making-and-Undoing While on campus check out the Mariana Castillo Deball exhibition at @mumamonash . #MonashADA #MonashFineArt 📸 @annemariemay.studio #MUMAMonash
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Congratulations to our current Fine Art teaching associate Kate Beynon who was named a finalist in the 2019 Doug Moran National Portrait Prize for her work 'Hybrid-self with kindred spirits', 2019 acrylic on linen 50.5 x 40.5cm. The annual painting prize supports Australian artists and encourages both excellence and creativity in contemporary Australian portraiture by asking artists to interpret the look and personality of a chosen sitter, either unknown or well known. Kate recently completed her PhD in Fine Art with us at Monash University. An exhibition of finalists is showing at historic Juniper Hall in Sydney till 1 December 2019. moranarts.org.au/gallery/doug-moran-national-portrait-prize/ #MonashADA #MonashFineArt
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CEO of @Austrade Dr Stephanie Faye recently visited our Monash Art, Design and Architecture Industrial Design Centre in Kunshan, China. With a focus on our industry engagement in Health and Medical innovation in China, Dr Faye met with our industry partners to hear in greater detail about the significant impact our design-led research and collaborations are having in China. #MonashADA #MonashChina
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Our first-year Master of Urban Planning and Design students presenting the GIS (geographic information systems) work they have done over the semester. . Every group addressed a different topic. So exciting to see how everyone developed great GIS skills in just one semester! . See more student work at #MADANow #graduateexhibition 22-30 Nov . . Repost @monash_upd . #urbandesign #urbanplanningmelbourne #urbanplanning #monashuniversity #caulfield #monashupd #monashada #monashuni #melbourne #studentwork #arcgis #gis #maps #20minuteneighbourhood #MonashADA
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Christina Barton will offer a fascinating insight into conceptual artist Billy Apple - posing the question, how might we understand his work in terms that are relevant to art practice now? . #Repost @disci_pline ・・・ The second annual Margaret Plant lecture - titled "Writing Billy Apple" by Christina Barton - is taking place at 6pm this Thursday 7 November in The Pavilion, Building H, Level 8, Monash University. Free to attend! #MonashADA #MonashFineArt #melbourneartscene . monash.edu/mada/events
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#MomentMonday to 2017 when our #FineArt students paid homage to conceptual artist John Baldessari by staging the 'Wall painting' exhibition in our MADA Gallery at Monash University Caulfield campus. . Curated by A/Prof of Curatorial Practice Tara McDowell, the fine art students painted one wall a single colour, each day, for 24 days. . Experience more amazing works by emerging artists at this years #MADANow graduate exhibition 22-30 Nov. monash.edu/mada/events/mada-now-2019 #MonashADA #TaraMcDowell
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. The #ArtTram by our Head of Monash Design Gene Bawden, #Spotted on Sydney Rd by our @xyxlab team ・・・ #Repost @hkkorsmeyer ・・・ #Yours #Mine #Ours #MonashADA . #Gender #PublicTransport