Labs
Research labs
Our research labs are at the forefront of design-driven, industry-relevant solutions, from the everyday to the complex.
Monash Art Projects (MAP)
Transforming how we think of art – and interact with it – in urban spaces through exhibitions, conferences and public art projects.
Critical Practices Research Lab
With a focus on history, theory, criticism, and curation, the Critical Practices Research Lab brings together scholars and practitioners from across disciplines of art, design and architecture.
Emerging Technologies Lab
Investigating an emerging technological environment where automation, artificial intelligence, data and the questions of ethics, responsibility and user experience and engagement that they bring with them are increasingly central.
Future Building Initiative
Applying research with built environment industries: innovation, commercialisation, collaboration.
Health Collab
Combining aesthetics and ergonomics to deliver commercially viable, user-centred medical prototypes and influence behaviour.
Informal Cities Lab
Making design-based, action research into and within the conditions of informality in developing cities.
Mobility Design Lab (MDL)
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).
WonderLab
Operating at the nexus between design, play and technology to amplify translational research into how people learn.
XYX Lab (Monash Space Gender Communication Lab)
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