Design

Overview

The Design program at Monash University provides you with the platform to explore advanced principles in contemporary design that will enhance your design practice and provide you with the platform to be an innovative leader.

Central to this course is four core design studios that will engage you with design systems, services, processes, environments and objects.  In addition to the core design studios, you will undertake studies in Design Thinking allowing you to analyse real-world challenges through design thinking strategies and approaches.  Further studies will build your capabilities in design research, management and entrepreneurialism and culminating in an exegesis.

This program is ideal for people with an undergraduate degree in any discipline who are keen to enter the expanding fields of professional design engagement, or for design practitioners aiming to upgrade their expertise.

Outcomes

Upon successful completion of this course it is expected that you will be able to:

• engage critically with design theory, concepts and methods

• understand the relationship of design to cultural, environmental, ethical, technological and professional contexts and practices

• apply design principles and advanced design skills to produce innovative ideas, concepts and solutions

• integrate specialised design research approaches in order to analyse, synthesise and evaluate diverse solutions for contemporary environments

• use technical and design methodologies to assess the needs, deliverables and constraints of complex projects

• draw on studio experience to design, evaluate, implement, analyse and communicate strategies and methodologies and apply them in the multiple fields of design practice.