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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
MADA students win international design competition
Congratulations to MADA Communication Design students Kea Tokley-Higgs and Louie Evans – winners in the third annual “The Next Level” design competition, sponsored by Wacom.
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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Roll'in into the weekend like... Great motion graphics by #Communicationdesign student Erin Louise Design MADA Monash University Art Design & Architecture
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Congratulations to Master of Architecture graduate Natalia Krysiak, one of the winners of the Churchill Fellowship. The scholarships worth $27,000 funds overseas travel for Australians pursuing innovation in any given field. Krysiak won the David Lindner Research Prize from the NSW Chapter of the Australian Institute of Architects in 2017 with a proposal examining the potential for high-density areas to provide environments for increased play and independent mobility of children. She has been advocating for child-friendly cities since graduating from the Master of Architecture at Monash University in 2013. Read the full article on Architecture Au https://architectureau.com/articles/architect-wins-fellowship-to-study-the-effect-high-density-housing-on-children Image courtesy of Architecture Au
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Great work by#monash #interiorarchitecture #honours student #Repost @charityedwards with @get_repost ・・・ weird new half-formed #morethanhuman worlds //// for one element of his major design research project, @monashinterior honours student @h.zh.x is constructing an immersive ‘humanarium’ deep within the #BeijingAquarium, rendering explicit the tensions between commodified #dolphins as disposable performance objects and emerging middle class social norms in Chinese urban spaces //// half-scaffolded 3D print is a marvel in itself //// #oceanspace #planetaryinteriors #monashinterior #monashada @monashada
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Launching Tuesday 23 October @ 6.30pm with a presentation by National Gallery of Art (U.S.) curator James Meyer, Monash University is proud to announce the new Margaret Plant Annual Lecture in Art History, named for celebrated academic and prolific author Margaret Plant. Read more about Margaret's career and information on the upcoming lecture here https://bit.ly/2CCZQub
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Monash University's Dr Nicole Kalms talks to SBS Australia about Plan International Australia's Unsafe in the City report released today for #dayofthegirl "In Sydney, in a third of the cases the incidents were reported to authorities but they did nothing," View the full the story below. #Monashada #ChangeIt
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Join us tomorrow night - Wed 10 Oct at 6pm on Caulfield campus to hear about the, Master of Urban Planning and Design and the new 3 year Master of Architecture which has a new pathway for entry for people with a bachelor degree in any discipline. Secure your seat. Register below
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#Repost @xyxlab Mon 15 Oct 12-4pm ・・・ Free today at 12pm? Want to learn about some awesome women? Come down to @MPav to hear our Girls Walk and participate in activities designed by Monash Interior Architecture students 💜 everyone is welcome, 12-4pm - register with the link on Mpav website #SHEcity #Herstory @xyxlab - graphics by @ginnis_design @monashada @monash_uni
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Roll’in into the weekend like.. Great motion graphic by #communicationdesign student @erinlouise.design with @get_repost ・・・ On the mooove 🐮#design #motion #monash #monashada
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#Repost Wonderful motion graphics by #communicationdesign student @nicolesizerart ・・・ JAPAN - SOUTH KOREA // 2/3 “A Piece of the Journey” link to full video in the bio . Ah finally, after solid month of work it’s finally up! Very happy and proud considering the short amount of time I’ve been doing motion. A solid and fun challenge reflecting on my time in these magnificent countries . . . . . . . . . . #motion #animation #motiongraphics #illustrator #illustration #aftereffects #uni #monashuniversity #communicationdesign #japan #korea #tokyo #kyoto #seoul #busan #southkorea #korea #ramen #sushi #totoro #kimono #hanbok #traditional #fuji #skinkansen #koreanbbq #travel #culture
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#repost Great 3D modelling by #interior #architecture student @aqy_interior_98 ・・・ Split. Deconstructive. Manipulation of Natural Lights. Multi-perspectives. Artists’ Beach Colony | Brighton Bathing Box redesigned for Visual Artist Martina Mrongovius. | Re-Constructed both Interior and Exterior. #monashinterior #monashada #monashdesign
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Great to see @MonashUni's @Dr Nicole Kalms @TerraInteralia research being discussed in the public domain . Great wo… https://t.co/c8EQrOnovG
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Congratulations to Master of Architecture graduate @NataliaK_au, for winning the Churchill Fellowship to study the… https://t.co/4T5z3hIk7W
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Isobel Parker Philip next Thurs 18 Oct @monashada #Repost @writingandconcepts with @get_repost ・・・ Isobel Parker Philip presents: 'Spirals and springboards: metaphor as a means of meander'. A circuitous study of the generative possibilities of allegory in a curatorial context. Or: allowing association to fall where it lands. -------------------------------------------------------- 6:00 pm, Thursday October 18, @ MADA Monash University Art Design & Architecture Building D, 900 Dandenong Road, Caulfield East VIC 3145 ---------------------------------------------------------- ISOBEL PARKER PHILIP is a writer and curator from Sydney and is presently Curator, Photographs at the Art Gallery of New South Wales. Her curatorial projects address the complexity and elasticity of the medium and include Imprint: photography and the impressionable image (2016), New Matter: recent forms of photography (2017–16) and Hold still: the photographic performance (2018). She was the co-ordinating curator of Robert Mapplethorpe: the perfect medium (2017) and is AGNSW’s representative curator for the 2019 edition of The National: New Australian Art. Isobel has independently curated exhibitions in a range of institutional contexts, most recently An elegy to apertures at the CCP, Melbourne (2017). Her written work entertains an expanded understanding of art writing practice. She has produced catalogue essays for numerous artists and contributed to publications for the NGV, Heide, the MCA and various periodicals. ---------------------------------------------------------- Image: Isobel Parker Philip ---------------------------------------------------------- @monashada @mumamonash @ipp____
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Great work by#monash #interiorarchitecture #honours student #Repost @charityedwards with @get_repost ・・・ weird new half-formed #morethanhuman worlds //// for one element of his major design research project, @monashinterior honours student @h.zh.x is constructing an immersive ‘humanarium’ deep within the #BeijingAquarium, rendering explicit the tensions between commodified #dolphins as disposable performance objects and emerging middle class social norms in Chinese urban spaces //// half-scaffolded 3D print is a marvel in itself //// #oceanspace #planetaryinteriors #monashinterior #monashada @monashada
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#Repost #industrialdesign @monash_mobility_design with @get_repost ・・・ Zheng hitting the tapes hard tonight. Little bit of documenting happening as well for next steps #monashindustrial #monashmobility #mobility #mobilitydesign #monasuni #monashada #mada #clay #cardesign #autodesign #claymodel #model #industrialdesign
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Antiwar, civil rights, feminism, Not just 60s America – these movements remain part of the national psyche today. J… https://t.co/aqxeaJq4Yd
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‘Abstraction + Non-objective: Class of 2018’ exhibition features the work of our talented second and third year Bachelor of Fine Art students . Now showing till Fri 26 Oct at @kingstoncouncil Arts Centre, Moorabbin. Image courtesy Bachelor of Fine Art student Brooke Hyrons. #fineart #melbourne #artist #studentlife #monashuniversity #monashada
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#Repost @monasharchitecture with @get_repost ・・・ TODAY! 4PM! ALL WELCOME! Come join us for projects, discourse, cheese & other refreshments TUES 02 OCT 4pm-5:30pm / Caulfield campus / Bldg F / F2.23….The Architecture Research Seminar Series presents a mix of research happening right now at @monasharchitecture and intriguing explorations from outside - and all of them putting architectural ideas to work in the world…..SEMINAR 7 = #MelDodd & #MaryamGusheh . . Mel Dodd @meldiddx is an #architect and academic, currently Head of #SpatialPractices at #CentralSaintMartins @spatial_csm in London. She has taught and lead #architecture at a range of institutions since 1995 including University of Cambridge, Royal College of Art, #CASS School of Architecture, and #RMIT University in Melbourne. Her teaching, practice and research interests focus on the relationships between social and political infrastructures, and built environments. . . Maryam Gusheh @maryamgusheh is Associate Professor in #architecture at @monashada with an extensive teaching record in #architectural design and history. She entered academia from a background in practice and continues to engage with the profession as a critic and collaborator. As a researcher, Maryam aims to ascertain ways in which global architectural trends are developed in local contexts and are, in the process, uniquely transformed. Her focus is on the inventive translations of modern and contemporary architectural ideas as they move between the dominant centres of #modernist thought and the marginal, yet robust, sites of modernist practice. . . #monashada #monasharchitecture #architecture #architectureresearch #research #creativepractice #practiceresearch #criticalpractices #monashuni
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#DesignCool #Repost @monash_mobility_design with @get_repost ・・・ Seth getting into the Flow of things. Good to be back into it for the semester! #monash #monasuni #monashmobility #monashmobilitydesignlab #monashada #monashindustrial #industrialdesign #mobility #mobilitydesign #autonomy