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
Our researchers
- Associate Professor Lian Loke (Head of Design)
- Dr Naseem Ahmadpour
- Madeleine Borthwick
- Liam Bray
- Associate Professor Densil Cabrera
- Dr Clare Cooper
- Associate Professor Wendy Davis
- Dr Joel Fredericks
- Dr Melinda Gaughwin
- Dr Phillip Gough
- Dr Kazjon Grace
- Dr Leigh-Anne Hepburn
- Dr Luke Hespanhol
- Dr Wenye Hu
- Dr Erez Nusem
- Dr Callum Parker
- Dr Somwrita Sarkar
- Professor John Redmond
- Professor Martin Tomitsch
Adjuncts
- Oliver Weidlich
- Dr Manuj Yadav
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
Amazing chat & appetite for transdisciplinary collaboration at our Strengthening Co-Design workshop today!
Thanks to all who attended & presented, inc. our very own @martintom
@Sydney_Arch
@syd_designlab
@AmandaTatts
@SarahLewisUSYD @leefay_low @all_isee
@sydney_business
The Design Lab will be at this event to answer any questions about the Master of Interaction Design & Electronic Arts, and the Master of Design and its specialisations in Design Innovation and Strategic Design. 👇
Register now for Postgraduate Information Week, 10-13 May.
Join us on campus Tue 10 May for our Expo, chat to academics and current students about studying at Sydney, and explore your options further with online sessions throughout the week.
Learn more: https://bit.ly/3Lu7oPP
Special Issue Call for papers on "Interaction Design and the Automated City" w/ @martintom @JessicaCauchard @nanoluke @mlucelupetti @publicronster @AyalonYavo @awiethoff Stewart Worrall. Open for submissions now! https://twitter.com/MDPI_MTI/status/1509748314647891980
📢New #SpecialIssue "#InteractionDesign and the #AutomatedCity – Emerging Urban Interfaces, Prototyping Approaches and Design Methods" is open for submissions!
👉Looking forward to your contributions athttps://www.mdpi.com/journal/mti/special_issues/IDAC
Ran a very meta lecture on Hi-Fi prototyping in VR on @MozillaHubs today! Loving the spatial audio and performance was great! #design #deco3009 #virtualreality #metaverse #byezoom @syd_designlab @Sydney_Arch
Happy to see this journal article published today. Because of Covid, I studied remote and ran the user study in my home city. It was a memorable time! Thank you all co-authors @martintom @thecallumparker Yiyuan Wang, the reviewers and study participants https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fcomp.2022.866516/full