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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
‘Gamifying’ hand hygiene in hospitals may reduce hospital acquired infections
Monash University researchers have designed a system to improve hand hygiene culture in hospitals which aims to reduce hospital acquired infections (HAIs).
Monash and Emory universities unite to advance gender-sensitive water research
Monash University and Emory University have announced a partnership to conduct research into gender-responsive design of water and sanitation services for the world’s most vulnerable and marginalised living in urban informal settlements.
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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Monash University Architecture students are working on a project with the Olkola Aboriginal Corporation, Elders, Rangers and community members to co-design a rangers station and cultural knowledge centre in Queensland's Cape York Peninsula. More information and some great images from the recent trip below. #MonashADA #architecture #indigneous #olkola
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Join Professor Naomi Stead, Head of Architecture at Monash University, at the Living Cities Forum on 23 May. Naomi will be moderating a discussion in the afternoon called, 'Latent Conditions'.
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We are proud to announce the release of "Photography, Truth & Reconciliation" by Dr Melissa Miles, Professor and Associate Dean Research, Monash Art Design & Architecture. This book maps the connections between photography and a crucial issue in contemporary social history. Melissa Miles shows how photographs are far more just than illustrations of historical events; they are a valuable means through which stories may be retold and historiography can be rethought. Further information https://www.bloomsbury.com/au/photography-truth-and-reconciliation-9781474296069/
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Congratulations to Monash graduate Anita Cummins who won the $50,000 Schenberg Art Fellowship for her installation of crushed Cheezels titled 'feelings' and a large collage made from Cheezels boxes titled 'I got out of bed today'. Both works were made in 2018. Anita was selected from 18 emerging artists who are exhibiting in the annual Hatched National Graduate Show at the PICA - Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts Visit the Art Guide Australia website to learn more. https://artguide.com.au/anita-cummins-wins-schenberg-art-fellowship-at-hatched
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We have two fantastic design PhD opportunities available: one with the Mobility Design Lab and the other with the Emerging Technologies Lab. The Mobility Design Lab investigates the implications and intersection between design and autonomous driving, implications of new power sources, user experiences, accessible mobility, network capacity and emerging forms of mobility. The Emerging Technologies Research Lab undertakes critical interdisciplinary and international research into the social, cultural and experiential dimensions of the design, use and futures of new and emerging technologies. Go to monash.edu/mada and click on the banner for more information.
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Professor Callum Morton is at La Biennale di Venezia this week. Check out his daily report on Instagram @callummortonstudio | One the best experiences here in Venice, apart from the phantasmagoria of Laure Prouvost’s French Pavilion and a few breathtaking aesthetic moments in front of some Luc Tuymans paintings at the Palazzo Grassi, was at the Lithuanian Pavilion located in an outside venue near the Arsenale. Entitled ‘Sun and Sea (Marina),’ the work is an opera about climate change. Like Prouvost, artists Rugilė Barzdžiukaitė, Vaiva Grainytė and Lina Lapelytė take what might become corny or silly in less assured hands, and turn it into a moving meditation about the slowly shifting reality of climate disaster in our lives. It’s a type of updated ‘Monsieur Hulot’s Holiday’, only the holiday is not marked by bumbling theatrics but by the slow disappearance of the idyllic landscapes we used to relax in.#monashada
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Great project collaboration between Monash Uni #Civil #Engineering #Art #Design & #Architecture students… https://t.co/gtHlruGq63
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Congratulation to Dr Brian Martin, Assoc Dean, Indigenous @monashada on the release of this paper 'A longitudinal s… https://t.co/f0xJGSHIb3
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Congratulations to #CommunicationDesign #graduate Dominic Hofstede on his keynote address to the current group of g… https://t.co/P9nsyEdtPO
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Join @MonashUni #FineArtists Kathy Temin, Emily Floyd & Trent Walter for @ACCA_melbourne Public Forum: Reflections… https://t.co/O0T451BXy4
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Register now, and be the first to get information to help you plan your #Monash #art #design & #architecture… https://t.co/w6QrNBM7w9