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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.
Graduate coursework
Take the next step. Amplify your creative potential with a graduate coursework degree. 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
New research supports '20-minute neighbourhoods' in Melbourne
New urban planning research from Monash University shows how to transform outer suburban Melbourne communities into ‘20-minute neighbourhoods’.
Professor Shane Murray appointed a Life Fellow of the Australian Institute of Architects
Professor Shane Murray, Dean of Monash University’s Faculty of Art, Design and Architecture has been appointed as a Life Fellow of the Australian Institute of Architects.
Image (Why study at MADA?): Tegan Bell, 2009-2016 (installation view), 2016
Image (Graduate coursework): 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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#20 #30DaysOfMADANow What does it mean to be white? Jemma Cooper’s work “Can the Settlers’ Tools Unbuild The Settl… https://t.co/rLKvN37IdF
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#20 #30DaysOfMADANow What does it mean to be white? Jemma Cooper’s work “Can the Settlers’ Tools Unbuild The Settlers’ House” investigates white cultural dominance in Australia and its human impact on First Nations peoples. https://www.monash.edu/mada/student-work/madanow2019/interior-architecture/jemma-cooper #monashada #monashinterior
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#19 #30DaysOfMADANow Drawing on her degree in Communication Design, Angharad Neal-Williams explored drawing as a p… https://t.co/FqVZ8wrCyO
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#19 #30DaysOfMADANow Drawing on her degree in Communication Design, @angharad.nw / Angharad Neal-Williams explored drawing as a public act in her Honours year. Here she is on Monash Open Day, creating an on-the-spot portrait of a special guest. https://www.monash.edu/mada/student-work/madanow2019/communication-design-honours/angharad-neal-williams #monashada #communicationdesign
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Happy Lunar New Year! All of us at Monash Art, Design and Architecture wish you a prosperous Year of the Rat. May y… https://t.co/h55WcCgfpD
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Happy Lunar New Year! All of us at Monash Art, Design and Architecture wish you a prosperous Year of the Rat. May your 2020 be filled with fun, health and success. #monashada #lunarnewyear #yearoftherat2020 #happylunarnewyear
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Saturday 15 February, join authors, historians, artists and curators from Australia and New Zealand for a free half-day symposium to celebrate the life and legacy of New Zealand's most significant painter. Search eventbrite.com for Colin McCahon for details and to RSVP a free ticket. https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/colin-mccahon-centenary-symposium-tickets-90564790727 Organised by Luke Smythe, Lecturer, Art History & Theory, Monash Art Design and Architecture and supported by Dame Jenny Gibbs. The symposium coincides with the @ngvmelbourne exhibition "Colin McCahon: Letters and Numbers". Image: Colin McCahon, The Five Wounds of Christ no. 1, 1977, NGV, Melbourne. Courtesy of the Colin McCahon Research and Publication Trust. #monashada #colinmccahon #nzart
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#18 #30DaysOfMADANow Sometimes, solutions come from looking at things from a different perspective. What if we exp… https://t.co/fWB3B3uRvH
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#18 #30DaysOfMADANow Sometimes, solutions come from looking at things from a different perspective. What if we explore the city as an autonomous being… something with its own internal logic, systems and distinctiveness? https://www.monash.edu/mada/student-work/madanow2019/architectural-design/de-coding-the-city #monashada #architecture
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Fantastic news: Fine Art Honours grad Sarah Ujmaia / @sarahujmaia has been selected to exhibit as part of PHOTO2020 / @photofestivalau at SEVENTH Gallery from 23 Apr. Presenting as part of “New Photographers”, it’s a huge opportunity for Sarah to share her unique approach to contemporary photography with new Australian and international audiences. Congratulations! https://www.monash.edu/mada/student-work/madanow2019/fine-art-honours/sarah-ujmaia #monashada #fineart #melbourneartist
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Fantastic news: Fine Art Honours grad Sarah Ujmaia has been selected to exhibit as part of @photofestivalau at… https://t.co/G2cNugzFVR
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#17 #30DaysOfMADANow A better doctor-patient relationship? Stuart Blackie's Flow is a speculative design for a device that would enable doctor and patient to meet in an almost handshake manner as tests are conducted. https://www.monash.edu/mada/student-work/madanow2019/industrial-design-honours/stuart-blackie #monashada #industrialdesign
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#16 #30DaysOfMADANow Bringing attention to issues of control, mental illness, womanhood... through film poster self-portraits. @ziggyfilth / Tzigane Firth’s self-reflective works tell a story of personal experience, such as “Dermatillomania!” about the disorder of skin picking. https://www.monash.edu/mada/student-work/madanow2019/fine-art/tzigane-firth #monashada #melbourneartist #fineart #dermatillomania
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“I am aware that this is an ugly work, it is a vulgar work – a bit like him.” New work from @monash_uni Professor Callum Morton has just been installed at the Art Gallery of Ballarat / @artgalbal Read more at @guardianaustralia https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2020/jan/15/this-is-an-ugly-work-donald-trumps-giant-empty-head-descends-on-ballarat #melbourneartist #ballaratart #trump
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#15 #30daysofMADANow The image of Melbourne's laneway culture is unique to this city and its life. Architectural students investigate if the image can be contained, preserved or altered if its population doubles? Should it? monash.edu/mada/student-work/madanow2019/architectural-design/babylon #MonashADA