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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
Jon Campbell selected to be Monash University’s artist-in-residence at the Monash Prato Centre, Italy
Respected Australian artist Jon Campbell has been selected as the Monash University Prato Centre (MUPC) Visual Resident Artist for 2019.
How to get more people to use public transport and reduce overcrowding
In a recent article for Monash Lens, Monash University’s Dr Selby Coxon and Deputy Head of Design Dr Robbie Napper looked at ways to get more people to use public transport and reduce overcrowding.
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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Here's a guide to some of the best events in Melbourne this weekend featuring our talented Monash Art, Design and Architecture community, Sat 23 – Sun 24 March. Exhibitions Monash University Caulfield - Deep City: Future Scenarios for Golden Square and Bendigo; presented by Monash University Architecture - I-CONIC Australian Design; curated by Monash University Senior Lecturer Ian Wong, - Shapes of Knowledge; Monash University Museum of Art Exhibitions across Melbourne: - Continuously under construction presented by Monash University Lecturer Millie Caitlin - Future Acts: Housing, Gentrification and Aesthetics panel includes Monash University Lecturer Sarah Lynn Rees Both at Testing Grounds, Southbank - Undercurrent Koorie Heritage Trust Inc Fed Sq; presented by Monash University Senior Lecturer Dr Peta Clancy - In Conversation: presented by Monash University's Daniel von Sturmer with Daniel Crooks Buxton Contemporary Southbank
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The Gender Equality Map - a smartphone app allows users (of any gender identity) to anonymously log gender-specific experiences of place — positive or negative — by dropping a pin on a map. Developed by our Dr Nicole Kalms and her team at Monash University's XYX Lab in collaboration with crowdmapping developers CrowdSpot. Read about this and other ideas that have been showcased at Melbourne Design Week. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-03-22/melbourne-design-week-urban-innovation-sustainability/10923874
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Australian icon of Industrial design Phillip Zmood, who was on the design team for the Holden Monaro and chief designer of the Torana, being captured by our talented photographer Monash University Communication Design student Navarre Fenwick for the I-CONIC design exhibition at Monash Caulfield campus. #Monashada #DIA #aussieclassic
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Congratulations to Yolande Strengers from Monash University's #EmergingTechnologiesLab one of 29 people to be awarded CHI 2019 Best Paper award for ‘Protection, Productivity & Pleasure in the Smart Home: Emerging Expectations & Gendered Insights from Australian Early Adopters’. The SIGCHI “Best of CHI” awards honour exceptional submissions to SIGCHI sponsored conferences. Find out more on Monash University's new Emerging Technologies Lab and their current research https://www.monash.edu/mada/research/labs/emerging-technologies-lab #Monashada #Research
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Monash University's new Emerging Technologies Lab hosted a networking lunch for attendees of the Future Mobilities Workshop. The workshop brought together academic and industry stakeholders to consider the social, cultural and experience-based aspects of the future of Autonomous Driving (AD) cars and Mobility as a Service (MaaS) in Australia and from an international perspective. Find out what Monash University's Emerging Technologies Lab is currently working on https://www.monash.edu/mada/research/labs/emerging-technologies-lab #emergingtechlab #Monashada #research
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Get your engines revving people. This Fri 22 March between 10 am and 12 midday we'll have Icons of Australian Industrial Design Phillip Zmood and Robert Pataki on campus, plus original Holden Monaros on show in the Building G courtyard. Industrial designer Phillip Zmood made significant contributions to Holden Monaro in the 1960s and was chief designer of the Torana from 1969 to 1978. Phillip was the first Australian Director of Design appointed at GM Holden in 1983. Industrial and Product Designer Robert Pataki famed designer of the Baby Capsule, Powerboard and Stackhat - Roberts designs were adopted worldwide. Comedian and design enthusiast Tim Ross will be on campus as part of the I-CONIC Australian Design exhibition curated by Ian Wong, Senior Lecturer Monash Industrial Design. Both Phillip and Robert have been inducted into the Design Institute of Australia's Hall of Fame. The DIA is also a proud supporter of the I-CONIC exhibition. Images: 1 - Phillip Zmood Monaro GTS sketch 2 - Ian Wong with Robert Pataki 3 - I-CONIC Australian Design Exhibition Have a story about a classic Australian design? Share your story in the comments below.
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Here's a guide to some of the best events in #Melbourne this weekend featuring our talented Monash #Art, #Design and #Architecture community. . Sat 23 – Sun 24 March. . Full details, head to Monash.edu/mada/events . link in bio
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Here's your guide to some of the best events in Melbourne this weekend featuring our talented @MonashUni #Art,… https://t.co/yxCyMDhFFw
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#Australian #industrialdesign icon Phillip Zmood, designer for the #Holden #Monaro & #Torana captured by our talent… https://t.co/Bswzt2zmo8
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#Australian icon of #industrialdesign Phillip Zmood, on the design team for the #Holden #Monaro and chief designer of Torana, being captured by the talented #photographer & @monash_uni #communicationdesign student @mosechico for the I-CONIC design exhibition at Monash Caulfield campus. . #Monashada #DIA #aussieclassic
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The new Ian Potter Centre for Performing Arts is AMAZING and our #architecture student had the privilege of hosting tours through the building over the weekend. Thanks @monashmasterplan . Keep an eye out for when this building opens to the public this year 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 #Repost @monashmasterplan with @get_repost ・・・ --------------------------------------------------- A sneak peek at our new Sound Gallery, Jazz Club and Cafe, which officially opens later this year as part of the new Ian Potter Centre for Performing Arts. @monasharchitecture students led a tour of this space and others yesterday as part of the @architecture_vic Awards - Presentation to Juries and #MelbourneDesignWeek, with support from @monashada and @mumamonash #Repost @han_chua ・・・ Texture | Natural Light #monashuniversity #theianpotter #jazz #archdaily #tour --------------------------------------------------- It’s part of our #monashmasterplan --------------------------------------------------- Project: Sound Gallery, Jazz Club and Cafe Date: 2019 Architect: @peterelliott.architects Contractor: @multiplexconstruction #ianpottercentreforperformingarts#monashuni#monashuniversity#monashclayton#architecture#australianarchitecture#interiors#interiorarchitecture#interiordesign#urbandesign#design#clayton#campuslife#campus#highereducation#performingarts#theatre#architecturedetail#instaarch
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Congratulations @yolandestreng from @MonashUni #EmergingTechnologiesLab one of 29 to be awarded @chi2019 Best Pap… https://t.co/YmbNrjYtoA
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This Fri 22 March. Building G .. this will be EPIC . #Repost @ispyid with @get_repost ・・・ I spy... Phillip Zmood on the drawing board sketching concepts at the Holden design studio in Fisherman’s Bend Melbourne the late 1960s. . The classic Monaro HK Sports wheel trim is being brought to life from Zmoods’s sketches by the modeller in this image. (see earlier post). The sketches around the studio are by Zmood. . To celebrate Australian design tomorrow between 10am and 12noon DIA Hall of Fame designers Phillip Zmood and Robert Pataki will attend the I-CONIC Australian Design exhibition. Ground Floor, Building G, Caulfield Campus, Monash University. This is a free public event, all welcome. . @dia_national #australiandesign #designedinmelbourne #monashada #zmood #industrialdesign #holden #iconic #ispyid #designinstituteofaustralia #melbournedesignweek #designhistory #automotivedesign #monaro #monashada
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Monash Architecture Lecturer @charityedwards is speaking on the panel ‘Place is a slow event’ this Fri 22 Mar at 2pm. Details below. . #Repost @workingheritage ・・・ Introducing The last (but by no means, least) of our four speakers who will be on the panel at ‘Place is a Slow Event’ as part of Melbourne Design Week being held at the former Royal Mint courtyard. . Charity Edwards is a lecturer and urban researcher in the Department of Architecture at MADA, and a registered architect with experience ranging from small-scale domestic renovation to international urban design projects for practices in Melbourne, regional Victoria, Brisbane and Darwin. She regularly collaborates with other spatial practitioners to create interiors, buildings and landscapes. . Charity’s research explores destructive, uneven, and more-than-human impacts of urbanisation and climate change at the scale of the planet. She foregrounds the long-disregarded space of the world ocean in these processes in particular. For instance, she is currently investigating the increasing urbanisation of the Southern Ocean; asking how and why this so often conflicts with our popular understanding of Antarctica as “like being on another planet”. . At @monashada , she teaches design studio, history and theory across the Urban Planning & Design, Architecture, and Interior Architecture programs. As part of Melbourne’s wider culture of design discourse, she has partnered with visiting international practitioners on urban interventions; and continues to contribute to local, national, and international architecture and design media and events such as Foreground, MPavilion, and Melbourne Design Week, as well as various academic publications. #workingheritage#MelbourneDesignWeek#placeisaslowevent#formerroyalmint #monashada
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Now showing the 'I-CONIC Australian Design exhibition' has over 50 products on display in Building G at the Monash Caulfield campus/ . Part of #MelbourneDesignWeek I-CONIC showcases Australian designs that have made a global impact. . . Come along and see products like the ‘Esky’, the ‘Britax baby capsule’ and the ‘Kambrook powerboard’. They'll bring back so many childhood memories. . . The exhibition is curated by our Senior Lecturer in Industrial Design Ian Wong. . 18 – 23 March 2019. . #monashada #design #ngv #industrialdesign
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Sensory exploration by our Monash Interior Architecture Honours student @lucyrbinterior .. #Repost @monashinterior ・・・ @lucyrbinterior ・・・ How do we encounter fabric through a sensory experience of touch? 〰️ my device explores a reactive and immersive haptic experience aiming to stimulate the cutaneous senses including texture, pressure and vibration #monashinterior #madainterior #mada #inpassing #monashada
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It’s on this week. SummerFest. Caulfield campus. 🍦🌭🕺💃 . #Repost @monash_uni ・・・ SummerFest is back! ✨ A festival of fun 🎡, scrumptious food 🍔 and free entertainment 🎭 awaits! Check out what’s on this week on our site! 😍#MonashSummer #monashada
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You know it’s good when it gets the ✔️ of approval from the Head of Monash Architecture. . Deep City exhibition on now at MADA galley Caulfield campus. . #Repost @naomistead ・・・ Yet more excellentness - Deep City exhibition. #Repost @michaelafprescott with @get_repost ・・・ Deep City: Future Scenarios for Bendigo Creek & Golden Square is an exhibition of student work from Monash University Master of Architecture and Master of Urban Planning and Design led by Nigel Bertram, Oscar Sainsbury and Catherine Murphy. In this exhibition, students present ideas for the intensification of Golden Square in Bendigo. Showing at MADA Gallery @monashada @monasharchitecture as part of #MelbourneDesignWeek 2019, an initiative of the Victorian Government in collaboration with the #NGV. #monashada
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Wed 20 March. This is an event you don’t want to miss. . #Repost @xyxlab ・・・ #Repost @niki_kalms ・・・ Don't forget to get your tickets from the #melbournedesignweek website for Women Design and Housing this Wednesday - Listen to experts in their field discuss the power and possibility that design brings to addressing the big questions surrounding women and housing. ⠀ ⠀ Women, Design and Housing is a three-part symposium held during Melbourne Design Week, come and join in on the conversation.⠀ ⠀ #womenanddesign #womenandhousing #xyxlab #monashuniversity #melbournedesignweek #MDW2019 #NGVmelbourne @xyxlab @schoredprojects @ngvmelbourne @monash_uni @monashada @monasharchitecture #monashada