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Monash Art, Design and Architecture researchers contribute to The Melbourne Experiment: Cities for people
The Melbourne Experiment is a landmark interdisciplinary research collaboration studying the effects of COVID-19 on the functions of a city and an international model for post-COVID-19 urban recovery and renewal.
11 Sep 2020
‘Yours, mine, ours’ wins Good Design Award Gold Accolade in Australia’s International Good Design Awards
The winners of Australia’s peak international design awards – the highest honour for design and innovation in the country were announced today during the 2020 Good Design Week.
9 Sep 2020
Visual design plays key role in protecting health care workers during COVID-19
Monash University researchers have developed visual aids and safety briefing processes that aim to protect health care personnel (HCP) during the COVID-19 pandemic.
7 Sep 2020
Professor Mel Dodd to be Head of Architecture from January 2021
Monash University has appointed renowned architectural educator and practitioner Professor Mel Dodd to be its Head of Architecture from January 2021 when current head Professor Naomi Stead completes her term.
24 Aug 2020
Reconciliation through architecture: A chance to build on the past
Can architecture be a tool for acknowledging Australia’s original inhabitants? Since the arrival of the First Fleet, the opposite has almost always been true – our cities and towns, roads and farms, have dramatically and fundamentally changed the Australian landscape. Architecture graduate and lecturer Sarah Lynn Rees is working to turn that story around.
8 Aug 2020
Why coronavirus will deepen the inequality of our suburbs
COVID-19 and the growing recession concentrated in the services sector will not just increase social inequality, but accelerate the growing spatial divide in our cities. As our new research report shows, the pandemic’s impacts reinforce the ongoing trend towards the suburbanisation of inequality.
3 Aug 2020
What does the ‘new normal’ look like for women’s safety in cities?
Women’s safety in public space is very complex. Women’s perception of safety – as opposed to their risk of experiencing gendered violence or crime – very much determines how they interact with public space. This issue of perception makes measuring and evaluating women’s experiences difficult.
16 Jul 2020
Artist Manon van Kouswijk awarded the $300,000 Southern Way McClelland Commission 2021
The new sculpture will be sited along the Peninsula Link freeway in Melbourne’s South East as part of a unique and award-winning commitment to public art.
14 Jul 2020