The Design Research Area, which sits in the School of Art, Design and Architecture , comprises three intertwingled clusters: i-DAT (digital), Message Research Cluster (visual communication), and Design Knowledge cluster (3D Design). Collectively they cultivate a powerful ecology that generates high quality interdisciplinary research at a local, national, and international level to create meaningful societal impact.
Through networks, collaborations, and partnerships we facilitate co-design and co-production with practitioners, communities, other disciplines, industry, and government. Speculative, provocative, and subversive design research strategies generate creative interventions, not just things, but experiences, relationships, and services, all of which require new design methods, tools, and techniques.
Our agenda is enhanced by a range of future focused research instruments, such as the Immersive Vision Theatre, Digital Fabrication and Immersive Media Laboratories (DFIML) that blur the boundaries between the physical and the virtual, the real and the imaginary.
Design Research celebrates a dynamic engagement with (post)digital innovation as a catalyst for creative production, playful experimentation, and industrial engagement, nurturing a vibrant community of practitioners, Postgraduate and Post-Doc Researchers.
