Research

Exploring how an increased work from home population changes the impacts, needs, and opportunities for 20-Minute Neighbourhoods.

Creating 20-minute resilient neighbourhoods and building community connectedness in Melbourne’s outersuburban growth areas.

Considering older women’s housing needs through an architectural perspective.

Demonstrating how dwellings can be creatively designed and modified to adapt to people’s changing needs and circumstances.

A collection of design related research projects from around the world.

Developing leapfrogging pathways towards water sensitive cities in Indonesia.

Understanding new art and museum participation in Asia.

Investigating how the distinctive ‘feel’ - or atmosphere - of the Queen Victoria Markets is linked to its design and built environment.

Examining the history, current state, and future prospects of purpose-built and strategically planned new cities in Australia.

Sourcing a new ‘big dataset’ to identify, visualise, and monitor informal housing practices in Australia.

Better buildings, new efficiencies through technology and collaboration.

This study proposes to differentiate bicycles to provide a clear language for further research. It introduces differentiation by wheel count as a distinguishing variable.

Establishing new ways of developing modern vehicles and smart cities for a sustainable social environment.

Enhancing the quality and viability of townhouse redevelopment on small lots.

Investigating how people make sense of and perceive national commemorative events and what meanings are ascribed to them.

Unique interdisciplinary approaches to understanding gendered spatial equity in the urban environment.

Quantifying the embodied emissions and carbon sequestration potential of mass timber construction materials in Australia.

How architectural drawings emerged as aesthetic objects, promoted by a network of galleries, collectors, and institutions, and how this changed the understanding of architecture.

Research that responds to the problem of providing re-charge docks for e-scooters when left outside stations and transportation hubs.

Assessing Melbournian’s neighbourhood sentiment through social media and the influence of the built environment on this satisfaction during Melbourne’s Covid-19 lockdowns.

Analysing how evaluation and learning from public housing urban renewal informs current policy and delivery.

Investigating how a dynamic visualisation platform can help to better inform and enable our community to participate in city planning.

Demonstrating how mixed tenure dwelling design can enhance outcomes for individuals, neighbours and the community more broadly.

Helping City of Melbourne policymakers understand how residents perceive, value, and use emerging technologies in the urban environment.

Co-designing with people on the autism spectrum to develop richer, more inclusive spaces.

Monash partnering to develop policy strategies for decarbonising the buildings sector in India and Southeast Asia.

The Commission engaged the Monash University XYX Lab to deliver an impact workshop as part of the June 2022 Community of Practice.

Design for a modular bus stop and shelter that promotes connection, reducing waiting anxiety and enhancing the overall travel experience.

Drawing attention to the experiences of women, girls and LGBTQI+ communities by presenting data and intersectional narratives of gender.

Re-designed to amplify the experiences of women*, girls and LGBTQI+ communities through new mediums revealing existing data sources globally and locally to spectacular effect both inside the gallery and on the streets of Fremantle.

An evidence-based framework for capturing the tacit + future values of Melbourne’s ‘National Employment and Innovation Clusters’.

Promoting better quality apartment living in the middle suburbs

Developing a governance model to build connections between infrastructure planning and strategic urban planning.

Reducing non-communicable diseases and health inequities for English city regions and Melbourne.

Keep Running is a call to action for communities to develop an understanding of safety and risk in our city and an opportunity for audiences to consider their own lived experience and/or to develop understanding and empathy.

Deferring to more lights and brighter cities does not create safer spaces for women and girls. Lighting design is vital for gender-sensitive cities.

Improving road sharing in the Alpine Shire through human stories.

Developing insights relating to reuse commodity chains, their societal benefits and contributions to nurture a more future-forward inclusive, circular economy.

Women’s Safety Audits: A transformative approach to safety in the city.

Assisting policymakers in assessing the risk of employment vulnerability as the impacts of Covid-19 evolve.

Helping cities and urban regions reach net zero emissions by taking the precinct as an optimal scale for urban transition.

Engaging users of Net Zero Precincts to have a say on the privacy of their data.

A contemporary installation situated in Curtin Place, a public laneway adjacent to Harry Seidler’s iconic Australia Square in Sydney’s central business district.

A major installation activating the eastern façade of the Geelong Arts Centre.

Understanding the bikes people park, and how they park them.

A dynamic sculpture to be sited along the Peninsula Link freeway in Melbourne’s South East.

Harnessing informal construction to improve the environmental performance of mass housing.

Investigating how rail carriage interior design influences passenger boarding and alighting times using agent-based modelling techniques.

Making the urban environment safer and more liveable.

Examining the complex, changing functions and roles of urban industrial land

Improving sanitation, mitigating flooding, and improving dwelling and open space provision for informal settlements.

Highlighting alarming levels of harassment and abuse of girls and young women in cities.

Designing the world’s fastest solar bicycle – running purely on sunshine.

A new book providing the first comprehensive account, and theorization, of oral history as a method in architectural research.

Field work in the Mobility Design Lab has revealed that there are bicycle types not represented in AS2890.3. This document provides information about these new vehicles.

Creating a city for women living and working in Sydney.

Modelling autonomous vehicle-induced urban growth and inform land use based policy measures to minimise their effects on transportation.

Increasing housing density and diversity through DIY development activity.

Easier bike parking means easier bike transport.

Improving the safety of women and girls on public transport.

An ongoing post-industrial urban revitalisation project on Tasmania’s east coast.

Assessing the potential, opportunities and challenges facing cities in regard to shared mobility, in particular free-floating car sharing (FFCS) and its related parking issues.

A comprehensive review of cutting-edge design work addressing key contemporary themes in mobility.

International research around the changing dynamics among the creative industries and urban manufacturing.

Creating a pathway to home ownership in Port Vila, Vanuatu.

A new look for Australia’s transition to electric route buses.

Creating a makerspace for regional Victoria that fuses low-cost technology and craft.

Winning competition entry for the Embassy of Australia, Washington USA.

Exploring how urban development can achieve water sensitive outcomes through planning at a range of scales.

Developing a tested catalogue of typologies for new infill development.

Contemporary art practices into architectural design.

Making recreational areas safe for women, girls and gender-diverse people.

A new entryway for 18 Innovation Walk, on the Clayton campus of Monash University.

A wide study on the advent of an intelligently connected driverless public transport system.

A three-day intensive symposium to engage with issues of gendered spatial equity in the urban environment.

Guidelines and principles for the design and configuration of urban passenger rail stations.

Showcasing the potential of industrialised construction through innovative full-scale prototypes.

Creating a real-scale prototype apartment from a range of prefabricated and modular elements.

Transforming the housing construction industry towards an innovative, advanced manufacturing future.

High-quality, innovative architecture and urban design provides great living places.

Prioritising thinking through concepts that could have real world impacts for women and girls.

A collection of urban research and architectural projects.

Providing a new picture of gender equality in Victoria to inform policy and urban design changes.

The participation of women in Australian landscape architecture, mapping and strategies.

Creating a culturally vibrant city that is inclusive for women and girls.

Flexible design as home owners’ needs change.

A nationally significant commemorative place in the Parliamentary Zone in Canberra.

Quicker and safer trains for all.

Improving small-scale residential infill development in Melbourne's middle suburbs.

Investigating how design research approaches can contribute to guiding the intensification of Australian cities.

Projects built on experiences working and researching in Japan.

Telling a story of female harassment in a public space – a new work for the 16th Venice Architecture Biennale: European Cultural Centre.

Principles for designing sustainable medium density infill housing for subtropical South-East Queensland.

Using gender-sensitive design thinking to support of Moreland City’s future growth.

Improving Volgren’s route bus manufacturing, performance and user experience using holistic design.

Exploring new techniques in agent based modelling.

Another approach for improving safety for women and girls.

Uncovering how the safety of women and girls is challenged in public transport spaces.

Sustainable regeneration for Melbourne’s middle suburbs.

Creating a practical working knowledge of the user experience in public transport.

Testing a diversity of low- and medium-rise dwelling models for precinct-scaled infill redevelopment.

Stage One: Best Practice Discussion Paper

Exploring the kinds of mixed-buildings that might work in Central Dandenong.

Tackling the problem of heavy metals pollution in the River Derwent.

Formulating proposals for changes in law and policy at both the federal level and State level to remove barriers to access.

A site-specific piece of flood mitigation infrastructure.

A data analysis of the shape of the profession and the participation of women within it.

Bringing together experts to reimagine and redesign how our city could be more inclusive for women and girls.

Celebrating, bolstering and protecting equality, diversity and inclusion.

Improving the effectiveness of infill development.

Striving for the highest sustainability standards makes sense environmentally and economically.

Single dwelling design tools for improved customer outcomes.

“Yours, mine, ours” is a design that celebrates the ambitions for diversity and inclusion within the city of Melbourne.

Addressing the question of how workplace cultures and professional identity affect subjective wellbeing in architecture.

Breathing new life into asthma treatment using the PALM of their hand.

Sourcing a new ‘big dataset’ to identify, visualise, and monitor informal housing practices in Australia.

Exploring the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on ways social workers help families and keep children safe.

Inspired by Singapore, a cross-cultural, cross-generational student project.

Improving the usability and user experience of cochlear implant devices.

Portable designs to temporarily convert subacute hospital rooms into palliative care rooms.

A co-design investigation into Emergency Department waiting rooms.

An agenda for change: community-led disaster resilience.

This Monash-led interdisciplinary initiative is at the intersection of university, healthcare, community, government and industry.

Bringing together an interdisciplinary team to investigate what Future Hospital means in a time of innovation, change and disruption.

Creating prototype headgear designs for MVG’s Gennaris bionic vision system.

Addiction treatment through collaborative design.

Positive behaviour change through design.

Designing an improved hospital discharge experience.

Creating an intelligent shoe to monitor the symptoms of people with diabetes.

Trialling ‘smart’ home technologies with older participants who are living at home to greater understand their accessibility and utility.

Improving blood donor retention through design.

A lightweight mobile stroke imager designed to fit into standard ambulances and provide faster stroke diagnosis at the point of care.

Understanding the transport needs for children with disabilities to assist in their support of safe transport.

Examining how design can help public transport companies address disability access compliance for a more equitable and accessible rail network.

Providing respect, engagement, and intergenerational understanding.

Exploring the feasibility and acceptance of a wearable device that monitors blood glucose in patients with diabetes and the effectiveness of real time physician feedback in modifying health behaviour.

Developing commercial opportunities in the areas of endotracheal tube holders and sharps removal and containment.

An Indigenous-led approach to urban water design.

Aircraft cabin design research to improve the in-flight sleep of long haul economy passengers.

This project aims to increase the volume and supply of dignified and inclusive homes for people with disability through design-enabled strategies.

Family planning in Papua New Guinea.

Bio-art explores organ transplantation and the gift of life.

Creating clean, healthy and productive rivers and communities.

Improving the lived experience of residents, families, and staff in the Aged Care sector.

Improving brain stimulation devices for use in the home.

Improving the efficacy and experience of Venous Access.

Queer representation in the media is vital for promoting a respectful and knowledgable society.

Stage One: Best Practice Discussion Paper

Formulating proposals for changes in law and policy at both the federal level and State level to remove barriers to access.

Better buildings, new efficiencies through technology and collaboration.

Establishing new ways of developing modern vehicles and smart cities for a sustainable social environment.

Improving the usability and user experience of cochlear implant devices.

Quantifying the embodied emissions and carbon sequestration potential of mass timber construction materials in Australia.

Understanding and forecasting changing digital lifestyle trends and their impact on future household electricity demand, including at peak times.

Transforming current e-waste problems into opportunities to design and research best practices for waste reduction toward a sustainable future.

Creating prototype headgear designs for MVG’s Gennaris bionic vision system.

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

Positive behaviour change through design.

A smart urban research-synthesis-engagement platform for decision making.

Creating an intelligent shoe to monitor the symptoms of people with diabetes.

An examination of creative practices in the public realm.

Bringing together academic colleagues from around the globe to discuss how we re-humanise automated decision making to the benefit of society and everyday lives.

Highlighting alarming levels of harassment and abuse of girls and young women in cities.

Creating a city for women living and working in Sydney.

Improving brain stimulation devices for use in the home.

Creating a makerspace for regional Victoria that fuses low-cost technology and craft.

A wide study on the advent of an intelligently connected driverless public transport system.

Creating a real-scale prototype apartment from a range of prefabricated and modular elements.

Investigating a range of issues addressing the motorcycle, from safety to new forms of manufacture.

Improving how we understand the impact that robots have on the atmosphere of public space.

Drawing on neural and biological systems to raise questions about labour, consumption, capitalism and its rifts.