Transforming the future through design-led research
Our research explores the role of design for speculating on the future, and to envision, define and inform the interactions and experiences between people and digital and emerging technologies.
Through making and imagining new forms of existence we critically rethink objects, systems and processes that shape human experience and life on the planet. We combine methods and approaches from the social sciences, humanities, science, engineering and the arts to explore and evaluate ideas, prototypes, new materials and experiences through the lens of design.
We collaborate across disciplines and with external partners, including industry, not-for-profit, government and community groups and organisations. Our areas of research span interaction design, design innovation, co-design, computational creativity, designing for health and well-being, digital place-making, human-computer interaction, human-robot interaction, smart cities and urban data science.
The group’s expertise contributes to the following Labs:
Exploring new perspectives on meaning-making through emerging technologies
Prototyping new kinds of intelligent design materials, processes, and collaborators
Good design needs good sound
Interrogating the role of emerging technologies in cities through speculative prototypes
Design for complex civic, social and cultural challenges to support equitable and impactful positive change.
Our researchers
- Dr Leigh-Anne Hepburn (Head of Design)
- Dr Naseem Ahmadpour
- Associate Professor Densil Cabrera
- Dr Clare Cooper
- Robert Dongas
- Associate Professor (Practice) Daniel Fallman
- Dr Joel Fredericks
- Dr Phillip Gough
- Dr Kazjon Grace
- Dr Luke Hespanhol
- Dr Marius Hoggenmueller
- Dr Wenye Hu
- Brittany Klaassens
- Associate Professor Lian Loke
- Dr Rohan Lulham
- Dr Yaron Meron
- Dr Callum Parker
- Dr Somwrita Sarkar
- Dr Yasemin Tekmen Araci
- Emrah Ulas
- Dr Jody Watts
- Dr Senuri Wijenayake
- Adrian Wong
Adjuncts
- Oliver Weidlich
- Dr Manuj Yadav
- Professor Martin Tomitsch
PhD researchers
- Yuxiao Chen
- Louis Chew
- Shuyao Dai
- Rob Dongas
- Joelene Elliott
- Alex Elton-Pym
- Reza Ghanavi
- Adam Hannouch
- Hamish Henderson
- Marius Hoggenmueller
- Brittany Klaassens
- Zhuosi Lai
- Geoffrey Lazarus
- Yihan Lu
- Kristina Mah
- Joanne Martin
- Khushnood Naqshbandi
- Mariana Papa
- Dorian Peters
- Ajit Pillai
- Mary Rapp
- Crispin Rock
- Tram Tran
- Yiyuan Wang
- Yi Zhao
Former PhD researchers
- John Bassett
- Mark Bassett
- Hugo Caldwell (MPhil)
- Karen Cochrane
- Augusto Dias
- Frank Feltham
- Sam Ferguson
- Robert Fitzell
- Mohammad Khan
- Youngdong Kim (MPhil)
- Doheon Lee
- Ella Manor
- Luis Miranda
- Crighton Nichols
- Claudia Nunez-Pacheco
- Ian Stevenson
- Hong Jun Song
- Manuj Yadav
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