Design

Our research

We’re leading integrative, transformational practice-based research on real-life projects that are important to the future of our cities and our planet.

Geographies of Commemoration in a Digital World

A significant, accessible, and interdisciplinary resource for researchers interested in the geographies of memory, nostalgia, and identity.
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WonderLab

WonderLab is a creative research community helping people imagine and design more just and equitable futures. We start with the critical yet hopeful idea: It doesn’t have to be this way.

Co-design of water-sensitive settlement upgrading

Co-design of water-sensitive settlement upgrading is a co-design report and part of a three-part series of reports produced in partnership with the Asian Development Bank, which showcases the possibilities, principles and best practices for a water-sensitive cities approach to transform urban health and wellbeing.
Transforming Cities Hub

Meet us

Our academics

Led by Professor Gene Bawden, our academics are design experts with a wealth of industry knowledge and experience.

Our alumni

Our alumni seek to make a positive difference in the world by taking on global problems and solving them with innovative design solutions.

Professor Gene Bawden

"Designers are concerned with the expanded practice of making human-centred solutions that are both tangible and intangible."

Alex Goad

Alex Goad developed the modular artificial reef structure (MARS) as a means of rehabilitating damaged coral reefs around the world. His work represents the shift towards problem-solving in the design industry.

What's new

From peer recognition to exhibitions and overseas workshops, our people are having an impact.

Discover Design at Monash

Information session

Experience Days: Design workshop - Designing for good

Workshop

Open Day at Caulfield

Creating safe spaces for women: research, advocacy, and action

Architect and researcher Dr Samantha Donnelly is reshaping how the sector designs safe spaces for women and children escaping domestic violence and the workers who support them. Her pioneering work has earned her the prestigious Vice-Chancellor’s Commendation for Thesis Excellence, elevating architectural advocacy into critical frameworks for mainstream urban planning.
20 May, 2026

The Monash Design Prize

The world is confronting numerous challenges that designers can play an active role in resolving, and we’re keen to encourage our ‘design for good’ philosophy beyond the university. We’d like to invite you, the budding designers of the future, to join us in this mission and show us how you apply design to respond to some of our most urgent challenges.
25 March, 2026

Study with us

We’re ranked in the Top 1% in the world for Art, Design and Architecture. Turn your ideas into reality, and through your creativity, change the world for the better.