Research labs
Our research labs are at the forefront of design-driven, industry-relevant solutions, from the everyday to the complex.
Monash Art Projects
Transforming how we think of art – and interact with it – in urban spaces through exhibitions, conferences and public art projects.
Design Health Collab
Combining aesthetics and ergonomics to deliver commercially viable, user-centred medical prototypes and influence behaviour.
Emerging Technologies Research Lab
Conducting research into the social, cultural and experiential dimensions of the design, use and futures of new and emerging technologies.
Future Building Initiative
Applying research with built environment industries: innovation, commercialisation, collaboration.
Informal Cities Lab
Making design-based, action research into and within the conditions of informality in developing cities.
Mobility Design Lab
Undertaking design at the intersection of human beings and transport.
Monash Urban Lab
Integrating design and urban planning research for social justice and environmental sustainability.
Wominjeka Djeembana
Articulating the synergies between Indigenous ways of knowing with practice led research specifically in the areas of art, design and architecture (and beyond).
XYX Lab – Gender + Place
Contributing to how space and design can shape, control and prevent gender inequity in Australia.
Banner artwork: Callum Morton, Silverscreen, 2010
Image (Monash Urban Lab): Monash Urban Lab, Designing Affordable, Sustainable Housing (DASH), 2011
Image (Mobility Design Lab): Selby Coxon, Improved passenger dispersal on commuter trains, 2014