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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
Call for Architecture Studio Proposals
Are you interested in teaching Architecture at Monash University? We are currently doing a call for studio and studies unit proposals to fill slots for Semester 1, 2019.
Small Homes Service: Victorian post-war architect-designed homes: Do you have a story?
We are looking for anyone who think they may have grown up living in a Small Homes Service (SHS) House from the 1940s to the early 1970s.
Design Thinking Masterclass for Secondary School Design and Technology teachers
In partnership with DATTA, Monash University’s Faculty of Art Design and Architecture is offering 10 Secondary School Design and Technology teachers the opportunity to have an exclusive Masterclass in Design Thinking.
PhD scholarship available in Design - deadline extended
Interesting in working on a project about challenges to the safety of women in public transport places? We have a PhD scholarship available for international applicants.
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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SHOWCASE: Emerging Communication Designer Leitu Letia Leitu Letia is a designer from Melbourne with a focus in typography, identity, publication and spacial design. Originally from an architectural background, she is a recent graduate from Monash University's Bachelor of Communication Design. View a selection of Leitu's wonderful design work below. Check out all the #art #design and #architectural graduate work here https://bit.ly/2FKOxSo Image credits: Image 1 - L’EPHEMERA 2018. An online archive for documents Image 2 - Abstract Type Exhibition Posters 2017. Image 3 - Not a Holiday Brag Book 2018. Publication Image 4 - Melbourne’s Underground Tunnels 2018. Signage design. #Monashada #Melbourne #graduate #EmergingDesigner
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Join Dr Nicole Kalms from Monash University's XYX Lab on Sat 2 Feb as she takes part in the panel discussion 'MRELAY - THE FUTURE IS GENDER-NEUTRAL DESIGN' at MPavilion Given the underrepresentation of women in architecture and urban design, how has gender influenced our built landscapes? Is there a gender-neutral approach to urban planning—and if so, what is it? Hosted by JOY 94.9’s Miranda Sparks and featuring a number of prominent speakers from across architecture and urban design this esteemed line-up will explore immediate and ongoing ideas around gender and design in this tag-team conversation. Event details http://mpavilion.org/program/the-future-is-gender-neutral-design/ #Monashada #Melbourne #GenderEquality #design
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Our fabulous friends at MUMA Monash University Museum of Art feature in a great article in ArtsHub exploring university art museums across Australia. "We have a critical and reflective role to play … exploring and testing out new pedagogical models is one of the exciting areas of our research." Charlotte Day Director of Monash University Museum of Art (MUMA) MUMA opens for the year on 9 February with the 'Shapes of Knowledge' exhibition Read the full article here:
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Don’t forgot to join us tonight for the opportunity to hear from and meet Prof Naomi Stead Head of Architecture Monash University . We’ll be at the venue from 4pm and Prof Stead’s talk starts at 6.15pm . Monash now offers the NEW three year entry option for the Master of Architecture. This means graduates of any Australian bachelor degree from any discipline can graduate with the professional exit degree required for registration as an architect. . Monash continues to offer the acclaimed two year master of architecture for graduates with a bachelor of architecture. . Join us and chat about study options in architecture and urban planning & design. Click link in bio for event details #melbourne #graduate #design Link below to event details https://www.facebook.com/events/1953161061446740/
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Showcase: Emerging Visual Artist Lia Dewey Morgan. Lia's works explode out from photo-printmaking, utilising contemplative practises to help discover a more harmonious relationship with trauma in both culture and the self. Lia is the 2018 winner of the 'KINGS Artist-Run Exhibition Award' - a three-week exhibition at KINGS Artist-Run Gallery Melbourne in 2019 including installation and media support. Lia is a 2018 graduate of the Bachelor of Visual Art. View Lia's work and other #art #design & #architecture graduate work here https://bit.ly/2U8Cr8v #Fineart #VisualArt #Melbourne #Graduate
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Showcase: Emerging Architectural Graduate Jamie Danino "Two of my favourite things about architecture at Monash include the broad spectrum of opportunities extending beyond the confines of the classroom and the collaborative dynamic of the cohort." Jamie Danino. Explore Jamies wonderful architectural work below and full gallery of Jamies work and our #art #design and #archiecture graduates here https://bit.ly/2FOSYuv. Images: 02. Jamie Danino_CoLab on Heron Island_Models 03. Jamie Danino_CoLab on Heron Island_View 04. Jamie Danino_Platforms of Pedagogy_View and Section 05. Jamie Danino_Platforms of Pedagogy_Model #architecture #monashuni #monashada #design #graduate #melbourne
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Join Dr @niki_kalms from @monash_uni’s #XYXLab on Sat 2 Feb as she takes part in the panel discussion 'MRELAY - THE FUTURE IS GENDER-NEUTRAL DESIGN' at @mpavilion . . Given the underrepresentation of women in architecture and urban design, how has gender influenced our built landscapes? Is there a gender-neutral approach to urban planning—and if so, what is it? . Hosted by JOY 94.9’s Miranda Sparks and featuring a number of prominent speakers from across #architecture and #urbandesign this esteemed line-up will explore immediate and ongoing ideas around #gender and design in this tag-team conversation. . Event details http://mpavilion.org/p…/the-future-is-gender-neutral-design/ . #Monashada #Melbourne #GenderEquality #design
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Join Dr Nicole Kalms @TerraInteralia from @MonashUni's #XYXLab Sat 2 Feb as she takes part in the panel discussion… https://t.co/1x1FVDy9wE
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Don’t forgot to join us tonight for the opportunity to hear from and meet Prof Naomi Stead Head of Architecture @mo… https://t.co/PvC6HoVheI
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Don’t forgot to join us tonight for the opportunity to hear from and meet Prof @naomistead Head of Architecture @monash_uni . . We’ll be at the venue from 4pm and Prof Stead’s talk starts at 6.15pm . #Repost @monashada ・・・ Meet Professor @naomistead Head of Dept #architecture at the @monash_uni Grad Expo Wed 23 Jan from 4-7pm. Monash now offers the NEW three year entry option for the Master of Architecture. This means graduates of any Australian bachelor degree from any discipline can graduate with the professional exit degree required for registration as an architect. . Monash continues to offer the acclaimed two year master of architecture for graduates with a bachelor of architecture. . Prof Steads talk w start at 6.15pm . Join us and chat about study options in architecture and urban planning & design. Click link in bio for event details #melbourne #graduate #design
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Showcase: #Emerging #VisualArtist Lia Dewey Morgan Lia's works explode out from photo-printmaking. #Winner 2018… https://t.co/CGeDsNqaoO
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Showcase: Emerging Visual Artist Lia Dewey Morgan. @liadeweymorgan . . Lia's works explode out from photo-printmaking, utilising contemplative practises to help discover a more harmonious relationship with trauma in both culture and the self. . Lia is the 2018 winner of the 'KINGS Artist-Run Exhibition Award' - a three-week exhibition @kingsartistrun Gallery Melbourne in 2019 including installation and media support. . Lia is a 2018 graduate of the Bachelor of Visual Art. . View Lia's work and other #art #design & #architecture graduate work here https://bit.ly/2U8Cr8v . #Fineart #VisualArt #Melbourne #Graduate #monashada #monashuniversity . Image 1 - 'in this f*cking centrifuge 2018' Image 2 - 'bonsais 2017' Image 3 - ' Cat Ba 2015' Image 4 - 'the sun has yet to rise and I am sorting through my clothes in the dark 2018'
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"Placing female PSOs at #tramstops was key in encouraging women to report harassment and abuse" said @MonashUni's D… https://t.co/fXKiq7Cyb3
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Showcase: Emerging Architectural Graduate Jamie Danino . "Two of my favourite things about architecture at Monash include the broad spectrum of opportunities extending beyond the confines of the classroom and the collaborative dynamic of the cohort." Jamie Danino. . Explore Jamies wonderful architectural work below. . Images: 02. Jamie Danino_CoLab on Heron Island_Models 03. Jamie Danino_CoLab on Heron Island_View 04. Jamie Danino_Platforms of Pedagogy_View and Section 05. Jamie Danino_Platforms of Pedagogy_Model . #architecture #monashuni #monashada #design #graduate #melbourne -- -- SCOTT KNIGHT Marketing Coordinator MONASH ART DESIGN & ARCHITECTURE Monash University Building G, Room 108, Caulfield Campus 900 Dandenong Road Caulfield East VIC 3145 Australia T: 03 9903 4133 M: +61 (0)412 131 777 E: scott.knight@monash.edu monash.edu/mada CRICOS Provider 00008C/01857J I acknowledge and pay respect to the Traditional Owners and Elders, both past and present, of the lands and waters on which Monash University operates
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This will be a fantastic celebration of the Victorian architecture community . Repost @monashmasterplan . In collaboration with @architecture_vic and @monashada, we’re very pleased to announce that the 2019 Vic Architecture Awards - PRESENTATION TO JURIES [Saturday 16 March session] will be held at the award-winning Monash Learning and Teaching Building at Clayton campus. . The Learning and Teaching Building by @johnwardlearchitects was awarded National and State Awards for both Educational Architecture and Interior Architecture in 2018. . Friday 15 March sessions are being held at 41X (41 Exhibition Street), Melbourne. Presentation to Juries runs as part of Melbourne Design Week. Featuring some of Australia’s most prominent architects, the event is a rare opportunity for the public to learn about some of Victoria’s most innovative buildings - from concept to construction. --------------------------------------------------- It’s part of our #monashmasterplan --------------------------------------------------- Project: Learning and Teaching Building Date: 2017 Architects: @johnwardlearchitects Landscape Architects: @aspectstudios @mcgregorcoxall Contractor: @multiplexconstruction__au Photo: @james.thomas.photo #monashuni#monashclaytonl#monashltb#architecture#australianarchitecture#educationalarchitecture#architectureau#urbandesign#campus#campuslife#university#universidad#activelearning#monashltb#design#designmatters#vicarchitectureawards
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Check out Queer Economies #exhibition 16-9 Feb featuring @MonashUni acclaimed #FineArtists - . Spiros Panigirakis - Deputy Head of Fine Art (Acting) Frances Barrett - PhD candidate Debris Facility Pty Ltd - Master of Fine Art candidate Briony Galligan - Master of Fine Art candidate and sessional staff Charlie Sofo - PhD candidate and sessional staff Behn Woods - PhD candidate . The exhibition is curated by Abbra Kotlarczyk and Madé Spencer-Castle (current Master of Fine Art candidate). . Artwork by Briony Galligan, shame and reverie, satin ribbon, mum's shoes, Westspace 2017 . Details https://bit.ly/2VYEUED #art #melbourne #monashada
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Showcase: Emerging Designer James Meadowcroft. . @monash_uni Bachelor of #communicationdesign student James Meadowcroft was awarded the Outstanding Communication Design Student 2018. . James is a designer who works across print, branding, photography, video, web, research & project management. . View James' work and check out the galleries for our talented #art #design & #architecture graduates here https://bit.ly/2stswim . Image 1: Publication Design Image 2: Publication Design Image 3: Typography with original photography Image 4: System documentation . #graduatedesigner #melbourne #design
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Meet Professor @naomistead Head of Dept #architecture at the @monash_uni Grad Expo Wed 23 Jan from 4-7pm. Monash now offers the NEW three year entry option for the Master of Architecture. This means graduates of any Australian bachelor degree from any discipline can graduate with the professional exit degree required for registration as an architect. . Monash continues to offer the acclaimed two year master of architecture for graduates with a bachelor of architecture. . Prof Steads talk w start at 6.15pm . Join us and chat about study options in architecture and urban planning & design. Click link in bio for event details #melbourne #graduate #design
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The Caulfield Campus is looking awesome 👏🏻 ⭐️⭐️ From the amazing library (pic below) to the updates to the #art #design & #architecture buildings and facilities, we’re ready to go in 2019. Come & check out the campus and say “hi” 👏🏻😁 #Repost @monashmasterplan with @get_repost ・・・ --------------------------------------------------- Monash Caulfield 🙌🏼. Loving how the campus continues to transform from day to day and season to season. A gorgeous capture by @frankenrev of the revitalised Caulfield Library ‘shade house’, which repositions the original 1972 impermeable Brutalist building into a highly visible, activated hub. Architecture by John Wardle Architects, Landscapes by TCL Studio. #architecturematters #designmatters --------------------------------------------------- It’s part of our #monashmasterplan --------------------------------------------------- Project: Caulfield Library Date: 2017 Architects: @johnwardlearchitects Landscape Architects: @tcl_studio Contractor: @hansen_yuncken Photo: @frankenrev . #monashuni#monashuniversity#monashcaulfield#architecture#australianarchitecture#architectureau#interiors#interiordesign#interiorarchitecture#urbandesign#design#campus#library#librarydesign#librariesofinstagram#highereducation#johnwardlearchitects#landscapearchitecture#landscapedesign#glazing
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Celebration. Student Achievements. @MonashUni #FineArt student Ellen Collins won the @ChapmanBailey Award for her graduate artwork. Choreographic Exchanges, 2018, is a conversation between a series of bodily movements developed within the studio. The work blurs the lines between author and reciprocator of movement and between the body’s subtle blending in and emerging out of the environment. Image credits: 3. Untitled, 2018, image credit; Shaun Heath *images resized for instagram reqs #MADANOW #graduateexhibition #Melbourne #Art