Assoc Prof Markus Rittenbrunch and Dr Marianella Chamorro-Koc represent QUT Design Lab at the weekly Health Dialogue discussion
The Healthy Dialogue Series is an initiative of QUT’s Faculty of Health that brings staff, students, alumni, government, industry, and our communities together over (virtual) lunch every Wednesday at noon. The discussion is invariably thought-provoking, relevant, and meaningful as together we connect the unconnected, think outside the…
Message from our Research Training Coordinator
Resilience is defined as “having the ability to recover from or overcome misfortunes or struggles”. The last few months have been an incredibly hard time for our HDR students and we acknowledge their resilience and efforts in continuing their research journeys during this time. Even, under normal circumstances the PhD journey is often…
QUT Design Lab expresses their solidarity with the Anti-Racism, Black Lives Matters & Reconciliation campaigns.
Below is a message from QUT Design Lab’s Director, Prof Evonne Miller Dear QUT Design Lab colleagues, I write to express QUT Design Lab’s solidarity with the Anti-Racism and Black lives Matter campaigns. QUT Design Lab believe that taking responsible action is powerful. As designers, we are thought-leaders and change-makers – and it is…
Update • QUT Design Lab ➤ Mid-May 2020
Reflections on the Design Lab In this wide-ranging video interview, Prof Evonne Miller reflects on the origins and mission of the Design Lab, as well as aspirations, processes and building a community of design researchers (NOTE: this was filmed as part of an internal, informal Faculty Research Centre network, so the tone is very…
Newsletter • QUT Design Lab ➤ June 2020
Message from the Director, Professor Evonne Miller This month I would like to encourage everybody to take a few minutes to do a Research Career Assessment, and then identify a concrete plan of action for the second half of the year. Each of us is at different stages in our research career trajectory – perhaps about to, or just completed…
Attention HDR Students • The Three Minute Thesis competition ➤ 8 July, 2020
The Three Minute Thesis competition is here again and you are invited to participate. This annual competition is designed to promote your project and cultivate your academic, presentation and research communication skills. It is also a lot of fun and we encourage to participate. This year the Faculty of Education and Creative…
Commencing September, 2020 • Special QUT Design Lab PhD Scholarship ➤ Applications Close 26th June, 2020
Special PhD Scholarship The Division of Research and Innovation are making one PhD scholarship available to the QUT Design Lab, if their applicant can enrol and commence by 1 September 2020 (before the 2021 Annual Scholarship Round opens). To keep things as streamlined as possible, the following guidelines apply: Any student put forward…
The QUT Design Lab InstaBooth project captures community voices
Dr Glenda Caldwell, QUT Design Lab’s Associate Director and program leader for Design for Communities and Resilient Futures, chats about the InstaBooth project. Instabooth is a portable device that incorporates interaction methods to engage with the community “The InstaBooth is about bringing different stakeholders together. It is an…
Frontiers of Development Secures Seed Funding
The QUT Design Lab is delighted to announce the successful bid for $32k of seed funding for the Frontiers of Development project. Design Lab researcher, Liz Brogden, will be working with Dr Alan Forster, Dr Megan Boston, Desmond Bernie, Dr Leigh-Anne Hepburn, Dr Taibat Lawanson and Jolanda Morkel to develop a framework for resilient…
Design and Technologies of Tomorrow
Watch A/Prof Markus Rittenbruch outline key projects in the Design and Technologies of Tomorrow program. During QUT Design Week’s pre-symposium workshops on Tuesday 1 October, Markus and industrial design colleague Dr Levi Swann will be running a hands-on workshop “HACK THE CITY!” – mapping the design space between utopian and dystopian…
QUT and QLD Government invest in future of robotics
An exciting development for QUT Design Lab’s Design Robotics team as the Queensland government announced a $7.71 million investment to form the Advanced Robotics Manufacturing (ARM) Hub. QUT will invest an additional $4 million alongside funding from QUT Design Lab’s industry partner, Urban Arts Project (UAP) over four years toward the…
QUT Creative Precinct honoured with Queensland Architecture Awards
Architecture at QUT has been honoured with three Queensland Architecture Awards for QUT’s Creative Industries Precinct (CIP2). The $88 million expansion includes world-class facilities for learning, teaching, research and commercial services. Creative Industries’ Executive Dean, Professor Mandy Thomas says “a key principle of the design…