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Designing wearable technologies to solve some of our most pressing health challenges
As we increasingly rely on technological innovation for solutions to so many of our very human challenges, how can we ensure we’re creating technology that also resonates with people on an emotional level? That functions medically or technically, but also socially and psychologically?
17 Sep 2021
Flight to the regions: Will working from home change our cities for good?
Necessitated by lockdowns and enabled by technology, working from home has become a viable and potentially long-term alternative to work arrangements across a range of sectors, offering greater flexibility for workers, and changing the criteria for where we choose to live, and why.
13 Sep 2021
Festival of Urbanism explores solutions to some of our biggest challenges
The Festival of Urbanism returns this September, with a series of free online events discussing the most pressing challenges of our time, and how urban planning and design innovations can mitigate them.
10 Sep 2021
Cleaning up Indonesia’s Citarum River, one of the world’s most polluted waterways
The Citarum is the longest and largest river in West Java, running 270km through thousands of communities to connect the people, villages and landscape of the most populous province in Indonesia. It’s also one of the most polluted rivers in the world.
26 Aug 2021
Innovative Indigenous-led water project wins ARC funding
Monash ADA is celebrating the success of a new Indigenous-led water project in the Australian Research Council’s (ARC) Linkage Project scheme. Repairing Memory & Place: An Indigenous-led approach to urban water design is one of 67 new research projects selected to keep Australia at the forefront of emerging technologies and benefit the wider community.
12 Aug 2021
Industry impact reaps rewards for our Mollie Holman Medal winner
Monash Architecture PhD candidate Dr Ivana Kuzmanovska has been awarded the 2021 Mollie Holman Medal for her exemplary investigation into the design-production relationship in construction.
11 Aug 2021
XYX Lab acknowledged with Designers Australia Award
Monash Art, Design and Architecture’s XYX Lab has received a prestigious national prize in the inaugural Designers Australia 2021 Awards, for the groundbreaking work - HyperSext City*.
6 Aug 2021
Monash ADA community on show as galleries emerge from lockdown
As Victoria emerges from lockdown, there is no shortage of art from the Monash Art, Design and Architecture community on campus and beyond.
2 Aug 2021