QUT Design Lab’s, Rafael Gomez, has helped to secure paid internships for QUT Design students at BMW’s headquarters in Munich. QUT Creative Industries’ Executive Dean, Professor Mandy Thomas, signed a memorandum of understanding with Dr Jimmy Nassif, BMW Logistics’ Head of IT Planning Systems. The partnership will present opportunities…
QUT Design Lab’s, Marcus Foth, features in Al Jazeera’s coverage of Donna Stephan in The Wombat Whisperer. “At Sleepy Burrows, Stephan and Marcus Foth, a design professor at the Queensland University of Technology, are trialling an alternative treatment method for mange.” They have created “burrow hospitals” which sit on top of real…
As a part of the QUT Art Museum’s Vis-Ability exhibition, augmented reality goggles will give sighted visitors the opportunity to see the museum-going experience first-hand from the perspective of people with limited vision. An excerpt from QUT Art Museum’s exhibition release: The Wondrous Goggles project identifies design requirements…
Professor Marcus Foth on Smart Cities and Why We Should Get Lost. A podcast with Sam Buckby. Smart Cities is a term that’s getting used a lot these days. But when you stop and think about it, what does it really mean. Well, as you’ll soon discover, it’s probably not what you think. Spaces. They influence every part of our lives – our…
Digital Monuments: The Dreams and Abuses of Iconic Architecture The QUT Design Lab is delighted to announce the release of Dr Simone Brott’s latest publication, Digital Monuments. Digital Monuments radically explodes “iconic architecture” of the new millennium and its hijacking of the public imagination via the digital image….
Not all parks are created equal, nor do they all attract local residents. Why suburban parks offer an antidote to helicopter parenting An article published in the Conversation as a part of Associate Professor Debra Cushing’s Intergenerational Park Design for Active and Engaged Communities research project. Dr. Cushing’s research…
Join QUT Design Lab’s, Dr Janice Rieger, as she chats live on ABC Radio ‘Afternoons with Katherine Feeney’. Dr Rieger will be discussing the Vis-ability exhibition at the QUT Art Museum as a part of the 2019 Brisbane Art Design Festival. Tune in to ABC Radio Brisbane at 2.30pm on May 22nd. An initiative of the Museum of Brisbane, the…
Call for Participation Digital Cities #11: Communities and Technologies for More-than-Human Futures A symposium at the Communities & Technologies Conference – C&T 2019 4 June 2019, Vienna, Austria bit.ly/digitalcities11 Expressions of interest open until 7 May 2019 Today, over half of the planet’s population lives in cities. Predictions…
8-12 April 2019 Design for All (DfA) Week is a weeklong conversation about Design and its role in enabling social inclusion, equity and accessible everyday experiences for people living with disabilities. Across three free events, researchers, artists, designers and thought leaders from Australia and around the world will share their…
While the Ig Nobel prize is a parody of the Nobel Prize, receiving one is no laughing matter. Originally created to celebrate the unusual and imaginative as well as to encourage people’s interest in science, medicine and technology, being one of the 10 research teams/projects to be awarded each year is still a high honour. The Ig Nobel…
Kossinna Wasala, a PhD research student from QUT’s Design Lab has won the first place in the QUT grand finale held on 7thAugust 2018. Visualise Your Thesis is an exciting new competition that challenges Doctoral students to present their research in a 60-second, eye-catching digital display. Kossinna’s research explores Emotion in…
QUT Master of Architecture students have been invited to participate in a master class led by the only Australian architect, to date, to be awarded a Pritzker Prize – Glenn Murcutt. He is best known for his environmentally conscious designs, which each have a strong Australian character. A student will have the chance to assist at the…
