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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 Semester 2 slots.
Sydney's 'danger spots' for women mapped with new online tool
How safe do you feel in your city? The “Free to Be” map – piloted last year in Melbourne by Plan International Australia – is now available in Sydney and other cities around the world.
Sexual harassment experiences highlighted in Australian exhibit at Venice Biennale satellite show
“Just so f***ing beautiful” – Venice Architecture Biennale satellite show to present work by MADA’s Nicole Kalms and Gene Bawden.
Tackling ageism through design
What role does architecture and design play in encouraging independence as Australia’s population gets older and less mobile?
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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“To be internationally competitive today we need to be, and are, experts at user-centred design.” – MADA Senior Lecturer Ian Wong talks to The Age about the role of design, and this year’s winner of the Good Design Award, the innovative “Facett” hearing aid. https://www.theage.com.au/entertainment/listen-up-hearing-aid-takes-out-top-design-award-20180514-h1011m.html
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Seeing posts prompting you to go to the pub? You’re probably one of millions being targeted by booze companies. For every dollar spent per capita on alcohol advertising, young people consume 3% more alcohol. When do we hold the alcohol industry accountable for such irresponsible advertising standards? Have your say at http://top-spin.com.au for a chance at one of five weekly prizes worth $1k. #TopSpinVIC
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"We're at the point where women are changing their whole life and relationship to the city because they won't use public transport." MADA researcher Nicole Kalms recently spoke with ten daily about ways places can be designed to better cater for all people: https://tendaily.com.au/news/australia/a180426ngx/how-to-make-cities-safer-for-women-and-girls-through-basic-design-changes-20180513
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Tomorrow, we’re commemorating the 1990 World Health Organization decision to declassify homosexuality as a mental disorder. Events on campus all day – visit https://www.monash.edu/diversity-inclusion/lgbtiq/events and help us celebrate the International Day Against Homophobia, Biphobia & Transphobia.
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#Repost @hgua16.zip ・・・ Mid semester final model: Illuminosis Symbiosis/Illumination #monash #madainterior #biolab_studio #monashada #crystals #3dprinting #glow
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#Repost @harrykatsonis ・・・ Perfect joints. #industrialdesign #furnituredesign #cnc #monashada #woodworking
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#Repost @fabioongaratodesign ・・・ Newly installed signage at MADA Gallery for Monash University Art, Design and Architecture . . . #fabioongaratodesign #fodsignage #foddesigned #MONASHADA #monashuni @monash_uni @monashada
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RT @MonashUni: Monash alumnus and @dfat First Secretary Dr Lachlan Strahan will address @Monash_Arts and @monashada graduands this evening.…
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“To be internationally competitive today we need to be, and are, experts at user-centred design.” – MADA Senior Lec… https://t.co/HQ6tP88B2V
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RT @MonashUni: “Coming together helped them to consolidate ideas about what the Pride Centre would stand for – ethically as well as physica…
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Alcohol advertising out of control? That’s because booze companies make their own rules about how they advertise. S… https://t.co/UZa5FRZTHe
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Seeing posts prompting you to go to the pub? You’re probably one of millions being targeted by booze companies. For every dollar spent per capita on alcohol advertising, young people consume 3% more alcohol. When do we hold the alcohol industry accountable for such irresponsible advertising standards? Have your say at http://top-spin.com.au for a chance at one of five weekly prizes worth $1k. #TopSpinVIC
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"We're at the point where women are changing their whole life & relationship to the city because they won't use pub… https://t.co/j3mAe7hFsc
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Tomorrow, we’re commemorating the 1990 World Health Organization decision to declassify homosexuality as a mental disorder. Events on campus all day – visit https://www.monash.edu/diversity-inclusion/lgbtiq/events and help us celebrate the International Day Against Homophobia, Biphobia & Transphobia.
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#Repost @madahosna ・・・ Building G, Tuesday 14/5, Pneumatic Saloon #monashinterior #monashada #iar2601
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#Repost @sonnenberginteriorarchitecture ・・・ ‘Transit’ It’s been one hell of a journey, nearly suffocated twice but we are finally done and feeling rather twisty about it.. #monashinterior #iar2115 #madainterior #monashmada #interiorarchitecture #monashdesign #monashada
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#Repost @andieporcaro ・・・ Billow 💨☁️ #construction #architecture #interiorarchitecture #inhabitation #mada #monashada #monashinterior
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#Repost @monashunilibrary ・・・ As cities grapple with the critical challenges of population growth, increasing urban density and a changing climate, it is anticipated that they will become more vulnerable to future flood hazards. How are we going to respond to this challenge? In our new digital exhibition, researchers from @monashengineering @monash.arts @monashada and @sensilab_monash explore this very question, using the suburb of Elwood as a case study.