Research
Research
Through our research labs and focus areas, Monash Art, Design and Architecture researchers work together to undertake vibrant, innovative, creative research that addresses the social, economic and human issues facing Australia and the world. Explore our latest research below, and download R:ADAR - Review: Art, Design and Architecture Research to learn more.
- Reimagining Cities
- Health and Human Experience
- Expansive Visions and Technologies
- Additional research
- Graduate research
Our research transforms cities, in all of their complexity.
Creative and critical research empower us to reimagine the needs, challenges and aspirations that enliven cities. Working with diverse communities and cultures, and across constructed and ecological environments, our research helps to propel us all towards greater sustainability, understanding and equity.
20-minute neighbourhoods post-Covid: Impacts of ‘Remote working’ in Sunshine West
20-Minute Neighbourhoods: Living Locally Research Project
A Design Guide for Older Women’s Housing
Adaptable Housing for People with Disability
Advancing a Design Approach to Enriching Public Mobility
AIC Urban Water Cluster
Asian Art Publics
Atmosphere, authenticity, vibrancy
Australia’s new cities: past, present and future
Benchmarking data for housing research
Building 4.0 CRC
Characterising Bicycle Types: Towards a taxonomy
Co-designing future smart urban mobility systems
CoDev Townhouse Model
Commemoration reframed
Consenting Cities
Contentious Cities: Design and the Gendered Production of Space
CRC-P LCA of Mass Timber Construction
Drawing on Architecture: The Object of Lines, 1970-1990
E-Scooter docking stations
Evaluating Neighbourhood Sentiment during Melbourne’s Covid-19 lockdowns
Evaluation and learning in public housing urban renewal
Exploring community participation with the Melbourne digital city model
From mixed tenure development to mixed tenure neighbourhoods
Future Cities
Global Buildings Performance Network (GBPN)
Greater Cities Commission: Women’s Safety Charter Workshop
Hobart Smarter Bus Stop and Shelter Competition
HyperSext City
HyperSext City 2
Industrial Revolution
Infill Design
Infrastructure Governance Incubator: From Strategic Planning to Project Delivery
JIBE: Joining Impact models of transport with spatial measures of the Built Environment
Keep Running
Lighting Cities: Creating Safer Spaces for Women and Girls
Live, Drive, Ride like a local
Measuring the benefits of reuse in the circular economy
Merri Creek, Coburg Safety Audit
Navigating Economic Uncertainty in Post-Covid Cities
Net zero precincts: An interdisciplinary approach to decarbonising cities
Net zero precincts: Citizen data commons and technological sovereignty
OPEN SPACE!
Painted Light
Parked bicycles in Australia
Peninsula Pearls
Predictive Personalisation in Chile
Rail passenger boarding, alighting and dispersal experiments
Reformulating the Movement and Place framework
Remaking post-industrial plans: urban industrial zoning past and future
Revitalising Informal Settlements and their Environments (RISE)
Safe Spaces: Understanding and enhancing safety and inclusion for diverse women
Safer Cities
Solar Bike Project
Speaking of Buildings: Oral History in Architectural Research
Study: the new bicycles
Sydney After Dark
The long-term effects of autonomous cars on land use, access and travel
The Rightsize Service
The Wheelie
TramLab Toolkits
Triabunna Tomorrow
Unlocking Shared Mobility
Urban Mobility Design
Urban Policy and Cultural Production
Vanuatu Pathway to Ownership
Volgren EV roof design
Warracknabeal Creative Circuit
Washington Monument
Water Sensitive Cities: Integrated Urban and Water Planning
Water sensitive outcomes for infill developments
WAYOUT: Codesign in Kandos
YourGround
Past projects
18 Innovation Walk
An Autonomous Driverless Public Transport
Built Upon By Design Symposium
CRC for Rail Innovation: Station Design
CRC-P Capstone Prototype
CRC-P Future Living System
CRC-P Innovation in Advanced Multi-Storey Housing Manufacture
Designing Affordable, Sustainable Housing (DASH)
Free to Be: Design Thinking Workshop
Furniture, Structure, Infrastructure: Making and Using the Urban Environment
Gender Equality Map
Gender Equity in Landscape Architecture
Girl Walk: Identity, Crowd-mapping and Safety in the City for Women and Girls
Habitat 21: Adaptable House
Immigration Place
Improved Passenger Dispersal on Commuter Trains
Infill Opportunities
Intensifying Places: Transit-Oriented Urban Design for Resilient Cities
Japanese Architecture & Urbanism
Just So F***ing Beautiful
Liveable Compact Cities Project
Moreland City Council Workshop
Optimus
Passenger Boarding and Alighting Simulations
Perceptions of Safety – pilot project
Preventing Sexual Harassment in Australian Public Transport Spaces
Processes for Developing Affordable and Sustainable Medium-density Housing Models for Greyfield Precincts
PTUX – Public Transport User Experience
Redcliffe Connect and Urban Renewal
Rethinking Design’s Contribution to Assisted Living Environments
Revitalising Central Dandenong
River Derwent Heavy Metals Project
Safe Access to Reproductive Health Care in Australia
Stawell Steps
The numbers in a nutshell: Women in Architecture, Australia
The SHEcity Exhibition
The Victorian Pride Centre
Towards a New Development Model for Housing Regeneration in Greyfield Regeneration Precincts
Urban Intensification & Green Infrastructure: Towards a Water Sensitive City
uTecture Industry Test Group Report
Yours. Mine. Ours - Melbourne Art Tram 2019
Our research helps to create safer, healthier communities and transform the way medical treatment is experienced.
Creative practice research involves investigating how health practices and environments affect people’s thoughts, feelings and behaviours, and asking how things might be done differently. Taking an integrated approach to human health, we work closely with stakeholders to create safer, more efficient and more comfortable environments and health systems.
Architectural Work Cultures
Asthma nebuliser / PALM
Benchmarking data for housing research
Child protection and social distancing
Co-design for Healthy Ageing
Emergency Waiting Rooms
Fire to Flourish
Future Healthcare
Goal Management Training: A treatment for methamphetamine addiction
Hand Hygiene Compliance
Intelligent Footware
Intelligent home solutions for independent living
Lifeblood
Mobile Stroke Imager
Mobility and Accessibility for Children and Adults (MACA)
On My Life
Project GLOOK
Repairing Memory & Place
RetroFit Kit
Spasim Pikinini: Marie Stopes Reaches Out in PNG
The Body is a Big Place
The Citarum Program
The Living Lab: Designing the future of aged care
Venous Access
Visualising Queer Indie Games
Past projects
Rethinking Design’s Contribution to Assisted Living Environments
Safe Access to Reproductive Health Care in Australia
We create visionary and speculative research that considers not only what technologies can do, but what they make possible.
We go beyond predictive statements about how new technologies will impact society and individuals. Our experimental research explores how people will use technologies in our future cities, cultural practices, work, and homes, and advances a more equitable, responsible and sustainable future.
Building 4.0 CRC
Co-designing future smart urban mobility systems
CRC-P LCA of Mass Timber Construction
Digital Energy futures
E-waste Futures
Geographies of Commemoration in a Digital World
Hand Hygiene Compliance
iHUB
Intelligent Footware
Let’s Go Outside: Art in Public
Re-humanising automated decision making
Safe Spaces: Understanding and enhancing safety and inclusion for diverse women
Safer Cities
Sydney After Dark
Warracknabeal Creative Circuit
Past projects
An Autonomous Driverless Public Transport
CRC-P Future Living System
Motorcycle Evolution
Robots in Public Space
Termite Economies: Neural Nodes and Root Causes
Bold, ambitious and creative research comes in many forms, and unconventional thinking is critical to anticipate as yet unimagined futures. Creativity and coherence accordingly form a mutually supportive partnership at Monash Art, Design and Architecture, helping us to realise truly change-making, excellent research.
E-Hub vehicle re-charge stations
More than a guulany (tree): Aboriginal knowledge systems
Take Hold of the Clouds
Past projects
A Reception History of Early Modern Landscape Design
BLUBBER NGV Pavilion
Carriageworks Pavilion
Envisaging Citizenship: Australian Histories and Global Connections
Gerhard Richter, Individualism, and Belonging in West Germany
Gormenghast
Gretchen Albrecht: Between Gesture and Geometry
House of Fashion
Pacific Exposures
Precarious
Progress in Action
Representation, Remembrance and the Memorial
Sisyphus
Skye Road
The Householders: Robert Duncan and Jess
The Inside Story
Undercurrent
‘Undercurrent’ 2020
Candidates undertaking Monash University’s Graduate research degrees are challenged to apply new thinking to interpret – and solve – complex questions. Here are some of the projects they’re currently investigating.
Abhinav Vidyarthi
Amelia Wallin
Andrew Copolov
Bianca Winataputri
Bradley Webb
Chenlizhe Yang
Corey Ferguson
Darcy Zelenko
Enira Arvanda
Fernando Pavez
Gabi Briggs
Can we transcend the limits of all physical experience and knowledge to seek sovereignty within the virtual?
Grace Slonim
Hilary Thurlow
Hoa Yang
Ilianna Ginnis
Isabella Webb
Jacqui Alexander
Jahkarli Felicitas Romanis
Jason Baerg
Jennifer Rivera-Gonzalez
Jiyoon Lee
Julian O’Shea
Kimba Thompson
Kimberley Moulton
Kirrakee Teea Watson
Mariyam Kareen Adam
Mathew Jones
Mehdi Taheri
Mitali Kedia
Mohaimeen Islam
Moorina Bonini
Nnenna Okore
Nícolas Guerra Tão
Rashed Azizi
Sanket Pai
Suzanne Barker
Tyson Campbell
Wani Toaishara
Wendy Christie
Xiaoyou You
Xiongfeng Deng
Yvonne Meng
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Banner artwork: Callum Morton, Silverscreen, 2010