QUT Design Lab celebrate International Women's Day 2021
The women of the QUT Design Lab share some insight into their roles as Women, Leaders and Designers. Professor Evonne Miller – Professor in Design Psychology What does International Women’s Day mean to you? Remembering and celebrating the pioneering women who came before us – we talk about breaking the class ceiling, and we have, but…
QUT Design Lab : International Women's Day 2021 – A/Prof Veronica Garcia Hansen
A/Professor Veronica Garcia Hansen – A/Professor in Architecture What does International Women’s Day mean to you? It is a day to remember the work and sacrifices done by women before us to enjoy the rights we have today. It is also a day to remember all the things that still need to be done to achieve a safe world full of opportunities…
QUT Design Lab : International Women's Day 2021 – A/Prof Deb Flanders Cushing
A/Professor Deb Flanders Cushing – A/Professor in Architecture What does International Women’s Day mean to you? Is a chance to publicly acknowledge and recognise the contributions that women have made and continue to make. Although we should do this all year, sometimes setting aside one day means that we have time to reflect and…
QUT Design Lab : International Women's Day 2021 – A/Prof Glenda Caldwell
A/Professor Glenda Caldwell – A/Professor in Architecture What does International Women’s Day mean to you? International Women’s Day is a day or week that creates a space in time for all of us to reflect on the role that women play in society and to acknowledge the challenges that women encounter and success women create in their every…
QUT Design Lab : International Women's Day 2021 – Prof Evonne Miller
Professor Evonne Miller – Professor in Design Psychology What does International Women’s Day mean to you? Remembering and celebrating the pioneering women who came before us – we talk about breaking the class ceiling, and we have, but there is still much more to do! What does it mean to be a woman in the Higher Education / Design…
QUT Design Lab : International Women's Day 2021 – A/Prof Natalie Bradford
A/Professor Natalie Bradford – Principal Research Fellow, School of Nursing What does International Women’s Day mean to you? Time to stop and reflect on the strength, determination and courage of the women who have come before me and who paved the way. What does it mean to be a woman in the Higher Education / Design sector? Its…
QUT Design Lab : International Women's Day 2021 – A/Prof Marianella Chamorro-Koc
A/Professor Marianella Chamorro-Koc – Associate Professor in Industrial Design What does International Women’s Day mean to you? A moment where we pause, reflect, acknowledge and feel proud about the achievements of women from all walks of lives in the world. From scientists, to advocates, to community leaders, to researchers and…
QUT Design Lab: International Women's Day 2021 – A/Prof Janice Rieger
A/Professor Janice Rieger – Associate Professor in Architecture & Built Environment What does International Women’s Day mean to you? It is a day that celebrates all women across the world and recognises the important contributions that women have made, and still make everyday to create a better and more just world. What does it mean to…
QUT Design Lab : International Women's Day 2021 – A/Prof Alice Payne
A/Professor Alice Payne – Associate Professor in Fashion What does International Women’s Day mean to you? A day to celebrate the contributions and perspectives of all women while acknowledging how far the world has to go towards equality. What does it mean to be a woman in the Higher Education / Design sector? For me in Fashion, much…
QUT Design Lab : International Women's Day 2021 – Prof Lisa Scharoun
Professor Lisa Scharoun – Head of School, School of Design What does International Women’s Day mean to you? When I was born, women earned 62% of what men earned. 45% of women finished high school and amongst those only 17% went on to get a bachelor degree and higher (US Bureau of Labour Statistics). My mother and grandmother are both…
Focus on Student Research : Valeria Macalupu
Valeria Macalupu is a QUT Research Student. In the later years of undergraduate, Valeria was a research assistant and consultant within GRID (Industrial Design Research Group). She focused on research and design applied to the Human-Robot Interaction field, as well as applying Design Thinking to hackathons (coined diseñaton). It is in…
Train the Trainer • Industrial Design Research Team ➤ CSDS Clinical Skills Development Service of the RBWH
Train the Trainer – 4 February, 2021 – QUT Industrial Design & CSDS On Feb 4, 2021 the QUT Industrial Design Research Team led a TRAIN THE TRAINER workshop with CSDS Clinical Skills Development Service of the RBWH. They introduced video recorded observations, PAC analysis and Ecosystem storytelling strategies to be used in healthcare…
Interview • Dr Mirko Guaralda ➤ The Fifth Estate
QUT Design Lab Chief Investigator, Dr Mirko Guaralda was interviewed by The Fifth Estate on 21 January, 2021, about accelerated migration to the regions and the importance of creative and alternative solutions in planning. Full article here  …
QUT Design Lab : Projections & Reflections : 8 December, 2020
The QUT Design Lab hosted their final meeting of the year on 8 December, 2020. It was an opportunity for those present to reflect on the successes of 2020 and project plans for future success in 2021 and beyond. Speakers included : Prof Patrik Wikstrom, Associate Dean Research, Creative Industries Faculty Prof Evonne Miller, Centre…
Award winners • Planning Institute of Australia Awards for Planning Excellence 2020 ➤ Cutting Edge Research and Teaching
CUTTING EDGE RESEARCH AND TRAINING AWARD WINNER… City Futures Research Centre – QUT Design Lab, UNSW, Omnilink and FrontierSI for The Rapid Analytics Interactive Scenario Explorer (RAISE) Toolkit Congratulations QUT Design Lab team led by A/Prof Markus Rittenbruch, and including Prof Marcus Foth, A/Prof Peta Mitchell, Bryce…
MAGNA Award • National Award for the Vis-ability exhibition ➤ A/Prof Janice Rieger
Congratulations to A/Prof Janice Rieger, her team from the QUT Design Lab and QUT Art Museum, who together won a National Award for the exhibition Vis-ability. This is the highest achievement for museum and galleries in Australia and was awarded by a national jury from the Australian Museums and Galleries Association. Read more
ARC Success • Amplifying voices from the Royal Commission into Aged Care ➤ Prof Evonne Miller, A/Prof Sarah Holland-Batt, Dr T.J. Thomson, Dr Jen Seevinck, & Prof Merryn Gott
ARC SUCCESS Congratulations Prof Evonne Miller, A/Prof Sarah Holland-Batt, Dr T.J. Thomson, Dr Jen Seevinck, & Prof Merryn Gott who have been awarded an Australian Research Council Discovery grant to use design and creative-arts methods to amplify the voices of aged care residents over the next three years, focusing on creatively…
Makeway Lab • A mobile makerspace for hospitals ➤ John Waldron
The Makeway Lab · Hospital Makerspace is a creative health initiative being developed by Blue Sky View and researched by John Waldron through the Queensland University of Technology (QUT). The Makeway Lab provides patient access to innovative technology and participatory programs to improve their health and well being. The Hospital…
Newsletter • QUT Design Lab ➤ November 2020
Well done Design Lab members! It’s hard to believe the year we’ve had. This unusual year has gone both very fast and very slow – but we are fast approaching the end. And, despite all the challenges, 2020 has been an extremely productive for QUT Design Lab researchers, as you can see from the 2020 QUT Design Lab Overview – thank you…
QUT and BeefLedger win two prestigious national awards for outstanding design and innovation
Innovation in tracking beef from the paddock to the plate using blockchain technology and digital cryptocurrency tokens has resulted in a team of QUT researchers and industry partner BeefLedger being awarded two prestigious Good Design Awards. These are Australia’s peak international design awards and the highest honour for design and…
ARC Training Centre for Collaborative Robotics in Advanced Manufacturing
Congratulations to Design Lab members Prof. Johnathan Roberts, Assoc Prof Markus Rittenbruch, Dr Jared Donovan, Dr Glenda Caldwell and Prof Greg Hearn on their successful application to fund the ARC Training Centre for Collaborative Robotics in Advanced Manufacturing. The Centre aims to build the human and technical capability Australia…
Assoc Prof Markus Rittenbruch 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…
BMW and QUT Partnership for Design students
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…
Save Australia's Wombats, an interview with Marcus Foth
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…
Wondrous Goggles at the QUT Art Museum
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…
Smart Cities and Why We Should Get Lost
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 by Simone Brott
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…
Why suburban parks offer an antidote to helicopter parenting
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…
ABC Radio Interview with Dr Janice Rieger: Vis-ability at the QUT Art Museum
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…
Digital Cities 11 at Communities & Technologies 2019, Vienna
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…
Design For All Week
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…
Design for All Week
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…
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| 13/06/2019 | "Creatives in the country? Blockchain and agtech can create unexpected jobs in regional Australia." – The Conversation |
QUT Design Lab researchers recognised for understanding our ability to not give a hoot when it comes to reading manuals.
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…
Design Lab Doctoral student takes out the top gong at 2018's Visualise Your Thesis Competition
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…
An opportunity for QUT Master of Architecture students to work with Glenn Murcott
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…
Experience and Understanding through Digital Innovations
Event Experience and Understanding through Digital Innovations Speaker Ellen Saethre-McGuirk Date Thursday 31 May, 2018 Time 1pm – 2pm BOOKINGS ABOUT THE EVENT What does it mean to make things after the digital turn, and what are the pedagogical implications of art and design in the digital sphere for art…
City Space Architecture and The Journal of Public Space
The Design Lab is thrilled to present City Space Architecture and The Journal of Public Space, a guest seminar being delivered by one of our international visiting academics, Dr. Luisa Bravo on Monday 21 May at 5.30pm. City Space Architecture (CSA) is a non-profit organisation based in Bologna, Italy, with a mission to studying, making…
QUT joins fight to save wombats
Your browser does not support iframes. Click here to view the linked content in a separate window. Australian wombats are in grave danger, especially the bare-nosed variety found in NSW, Victoria, and Tasmania, but a new QUT Design Lab project hopes to reverse the threat of their…
Chaos of Concussion
Concussion is a frequent sport injury. Meet U.S. expert Dr John Sullivan and learn about his work assessing and monitoring concussion for the NFL, NBA, WNBA, Olympic athletes and military elite performers. John is CEO of Clinical & Sports Consulting Services, and a clinical Sport Psychologist and Applied Sport Scientist for Providence…
Robots Are Art Machines
Innovative ways of looking at new technologies often come from unexpected places. Industrial robotic equipment can be used for more than mass-manufacturing — it can also be used to create art, art which goes beyond the visual world and into one of data. Artists who work with robots give us new ways to see these technologies as tools…
Championing Design Through STEM Girl Power
STEM Girl Power was on display at QUT in March when the QUT Design Lab again hosted a transdisciplinary campus workshop program for the final day of the annual STEM Girl Power Camp. The event coincided with World Science Festival (WSF) activities that took place in Brisbane. The 56 regional high-achieving Year 10 girls became designers…
The ReGenerate Studio#3: QUT Landscape Architecture
QUT Landscape Architecture, Brisbane Powerhouse, RPS Group and Vee Design are delighted to invite you to join us for the opening night of the exhibition ‘The ReGenerate Studio#3: QUT Landscape Architecture’. The opening commences at 6pm on Thursday 19th April, 2018, at Brisbane Powerhouse. For more information download the QUT…
Kaospilot: 25 Years of Design, Entrepreneurship & Social Innovation made in Denmark
QUT Design Lab and Creative Enterprise Australia are proud to jointly present a public seminar by Christer Windeløv-Lidzélius Principal, Kaospilot Business and Design School, Aarhus, Denmark Tuesday, 24 April 2018, 5.30pm for 6pm start – 7pm Gibson Room, Z Block, Level 10, QUT Gardens Point Campus (map) (parking) $30 BOOK NOW Drinks and…
Preparing Teachers for Future Design
QUT’s Schools of Design and Education recently collaborated to host a studio for teachers preparing for the 2019 Queensland Senior Design syllabus. Eighty high school teachers from Brisbane and regional schools across Queensland attended the Design Teachers Studio Workshop in February in the Interior Design studios at QUT Gardens Point…
QUT Design Lab's world leading in Community Engagement & Urban Informatics
Australian universities can justifiably claim to be first in the world in dozens of highly competitive research areas, according to new analysis by data start-up League of Scholars. Using a granular approach that zeroes in on specific subject areas, the firm finds that QUT is first in the world in four research areas including…
Industrial Design + Mentoring = A Winning Mix: Dr Rafael Gomez
Industrial design is a tough industry to crack. And mentorship is one thing that is not always part of the university curriculum. Queensland University of Technology’s Rafael Gomez shares his wisdom on mentorship and being a well-rounded designer. Read more here…
Design Teachers' Studio at QUT
Everything changes in 2019 for Queensland high school teachers, with a new design syllabus emphasising design thinking principles and prototyping. That’s why QUT (Queensland University of Technology) School of Design and QUT Design Lab is collaborating with the Faculty of Education to run the Design Teachers Studio in 2018. In this…
QUT Design Teachers Studio 2018
On 9-10 Feb, 2018, QUT Design Lab’s Natalie Wright and Andrew Scott and Dr Nick Kelly from Faculty of Education hosted the QUT Design Teachers Studio 2018, supported by others from the School of Design. 80 high school teachers participated in this two-day programme in preparation for the 2019 introduction of the new QCAA senior Design…
Dr Jennifer Seevinck appointed Artist in Residence, Dept of Environment and Science
QUT Design Lab researcher Dr Jennifer Seevinck has been awarded a residency under the Artist in Residence Science 2017-2018 (AIRS) Program, Science Division, Department of Environment and Science. Dr Seevinck is one of only four artists that were awarded the residency which commenced recently with the DSITI Coastal Impacts Unit at…
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| 14/03/2018 | "UNSW, Queensland, ANU world leaders in key area" – The Australian |
| 09/03/2018 | Preparing Teachers for Future Design – QUT News |
| 26/02/2018 | Industrial Design + Mentoring = A Winning Mix – InDesign News |
The Promise of Blockchain for Food and Agriculture
Professor Marcus Foth and Mr Warwick Powell continue the QUT Blockchain Seminar Series offering a critical overview of blockchain technology for applications in food and agriculture. Specifically, they talk about BeefLedger – an integrated platform in collaborative development with QUT and the Food Agility CRC for improved food…
Blockchain technology to fight food fraud in the beef industry
A research project designed to track beef from the paddock to the plate and protect Australia’s reputation for world-class beef production will be launched today (Monday 4 December) at QUT. Marcus Foth, Professor of Urban Informatics at the QUT Design Lab said BeefLedger is an industry-led project bringing together design, business…
30 Nov: QUT Design Lab seminar: Richard Murphy
Richard Murphy was educated at Newcastle and Edinburgh Universities and for four years taught at Edinburgh University and researched the work of the Venetian Architect, Carlo Scarpa, at the Castelvecchio, Verona. Richard founded the Practice of Richard Murphy Architects in 1991 which has since won 22 RIBA, and currently holds the…
Tech chiefs make their predictions for 2018
Over the past year, we have seen new technology released at a rate many would have considered unrealistic even a few years ago as new gadgets, solutions and platforms nestle more closely into our everyday lives – both at work and play. While questions and aspirations around how technology will continue to evolve in coming years are yet…
Co-creation in the smart city: Prof Marcus Foth
This webinar will move the smart city discussion beyond IoT and public wifi. It will introduce insights from applied research to realign the smart city agenda with the needs of people and the urban environment. International case studies will trace different stages of smart city maturity from city services to models of co-creation and…
6 Nov: QUT Design Lab Seminar – The Radical Centre: a design led approach to reconciling biodiversity conservation and bushfire safety
QUT Design Lab presents a seminar by Dr Ian Weir. In Australia alone, over 800 people have died in bushfires in the last 100 years. Most people die in or very close to their homes. With a warming climate and increased development in bushland interface areas around the world, many more people will die in bushfires unless we address the…
18 Oct: QUT Design Lab Seminar – Seeing Better Cities: Q&A with Chuck Wolfe
QUT Design Lab invites you to join us for an evening with long time urban writer, photographer, affiliate associate professor and land-use attorney/consultant Chuck Wolfe. Wednesday 18 October, 6-7.30pm QUT Kelvin Grove campus, Z9 Building, Level 6 Chuck provides a unique perspective about cities as both a writer about urbanism worldwide…
Future Fruit: 3D designed and printed fruit
Here in Australia we can grow a range of delicious fruits, but in some places the environment makes it difficult to grow some fruits…but what if they could 3D print fruit? At QUT’s Design Lab, Dr Deb Polson and her team have designed an interactive system to create the fruit of the future…
School leads hunt for tomorrow's entrepreneurs
QUT Design Lab’s Natalie Wright has been working with Indooroopilly State High School, leading a consortium of industry, government and education organisations and individuals aiming to nurture the next generation of entrepreneurs. As the workforce continues to be transformed by globalisation and demographic shifts, the need has never…
PhD researcher Fabius Steinberger on Scope TV
QUT Design Lab PhD researcher Fabius Steinberger showed Channel 11’s Scope TV programme how video games inspired him to make driving safer…
Robot sculpture, coming to a gallery near you
Two weeks ago, in an industrial shed in the northern suburbs of Brisbane, a team of engineers installed a large, orange robot arm. It was a standard industrial robot arm, but it was not going to be used for standard purposes. The robot’s job would be to carve moulds for the casting of large-scale, metal sculptures. It is being installed…
Designing robots that see
Meet the first in a new wave of robots that will revolutionise manufacturing among Australia’s small to medium size enterprises – creating more jobs locally. For more than 40 years robots have been the workhorses for manufacturing giants – inflexible machines pre-programmed to perform one task repeatedly in a highly-controlled…
Queenslanders in Conversation: are smart cities for everyone?
What makes a city ‘smart’ and how do we build one that works for everyone? How can Queensland use technology to improve liveability, increase productivity and enhance citizenship engagement? In the third Queenslanders in Conversation talk for 2017, ABC Radio Brisbane’s Kelly Higgins-Devine facilitates a conversation between high profile…
Postdoctoral Fellowships in Design Robotics
QUT Design Lab & Australian Centre for Robotic Vision at QUT is offering a Postdoctoral Fellowship in DESIGN and a Postdoctoral Fellowship in ROBOTIC VISION as part of the Design Robotics IMCRC project. Robotic technology has been successfully used in repetitive manufacturing by large enterprises for decades. The opportunity for future…
Teaching the digital unknown with creative thinking and digital technology
How do teachers prepare their students for jobs that don’t exist yet, and for a digital future filled with unknowns? It’s a question more than 140 teachers across Queensland came looking for an answer to at the Faculty of Education’s inaugural Pedagogy Exchange event on 21 July. QUT Design Lab’s Ms Natalie Wright, along with colleagues…
PhD Scholarships in Design Robotics
QUT Design Lab is offering two new PhD scholarships as part of the Design Robotics IMCRC project. Robotic technology has been successfully used in repetitive manufacturing by large enterprises for decades. The opportunity for future advanced manufacturing is to use robotic vision systems and software user interfaces to reduce the…
Brisbane Airport named Australia’s first dementia-friendly airport at guide launch
QUT Design Lab’s Prof Jill Franz is part of a multidisciplinary team that has developed a new guide for travellers with dementia: Ensuring a Smooth Journey: A Guide to Brisbane Airport for people living with Dementia and their Travel Companions. Brisbane Airport was named Australia’s first dementia-friendly airport by Alzheimer’s…
Dr Jen Seevinck takes up role as CSIRO Visiting Scientist
Dr Jen Seevinck, artist, researcher and senior lecturer in Interactive and Visual Design, is exploring creative interaction with big data through her position as Visiting Scientist with CSIRO‘s Data61 at the Eco Sciences Precinct, from May and until April 2018. The collaboration builds on Jen’s existing creative work and research into…
Creativity and innovation in the Solomon Islands: enabling sustainable careers in the creative industries
QUT Design Lab DCI student Samantha Kies-Ryan recently took part in The Innovation Lab programme in Sydney, run by Commonwealth Bank and funded by DFAT through Scope Global : http://www.scopeglobal.com/innovationlabs/. The program is designed to take participants through the six steps to realising an idea through to a business model and…
QUT Engages Federal Departments in Co-Designing the Future of Employment
On Wednesday 7th June 2017 a team from the QUT Design Lab led a strategic design thinking workshop for policy makers involving participatory co-design methods at the Explore Design Conference 2017 — a whole of government initiative, responding to a growing desire across the public sector to use design thinking to collaboratively develop…
Intergenerational Park Design for Active and Engaged Communities
QUT Design Lab researchers are leading a transdisciplinary team to reconceptualise suburban parks as exciting spaces that inspire all ages to be physically active, while building social connections across generations. See project details here…
Homelessness Hackathon
QUT Design Lab had the privilege of co-hosting the first ever Homelessness Hackathon in Australia, together with partners Marist180, Orange Sky Laundry, Common Ground QLD, River City Labs, and The Incus Group, funded by the Department of Housing’s Dignity First Fund. This is the first in the world of its type to include pre-event direct…
Sara Heitlinger: Connected Seeds
The QUT Design Lab invites you to a guest seminar: Connected Seeds: Co-design of Internet of Things for Sustainable Urban Agriculture Dr Sara Heitlinger Queen Mary University of London Friday, 17 February 2017, 3pm – 4pm QUT Design Lab, Gardens Point campus, J Block, Room J214 (map) In this talk I will present recent research from the…
Techfugees BNE 2017
The Urban Informatics Research Lab @ QUT Design Lab is delighted to be collaborating with MDA Ltd, Marist180, Access Community Services, MultiLink, Australian Red Cross, and the River City Lab to host the first Techfugees hackathon in Brisbane. Techfugees BNE 2017: Hackathon March 17 – 19, 2017 River City Labs, 2/282 Wickham St…
Brian Due: Storming the Body – Practices for Enacted Embodied Pretotypes
The QUT Design Lab in association with the People & Systems Lab invite you to a guest seminar: Storming the Body: Practices for Enacted Embodied Pretotypes Dr Brian Lystgaard Due Department of Nordic Studies and Linguistics, University of Copenhagen, Denmark Friday, 10 February 2017, 3 – 4pm QUT Design Lab, Gardens Point campus, J…
Entrepreneurship education drives new age of innovation
Is entrepreneurship education the must-have skill set to determine a successful career? Recognising the growing demands of the innovative and technology-driven economy, QUT has joined the internationally-renowned Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) to teach entrepreneurial skills transferrable across countries, careers and…
QUT Design Lab Leadership Team Announced
It is with pleasure I share with you news of the most recent appointments to the Leadership team of the QUT Design Lab. Please join me in congratulating Prof. Marcus Foth in his role as Director of the QUT Design Lab; Assoc. Prof. Thea Blackler in her new role as Associate Director of the QUT Design Lab, and; Dr Debra Cushing in her new…
Learning community prototypes design-led education program
QUT Design Lab’s ‘Design Education Research Platform’ and Indooroopilly State High School (ISHS) have kicked off an exciting program of activities for 2017 involving 165 teachers. The unique Queensland education partnership prototypes a collaborative 21st century learning community for design-led education. The Indooroopilly SHS…
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Social Lightscapes Workshops @ West End
13 December 2016 The QUT Design Lab is delighted to host the Social Lightscapes Workshop 13-16 December, which will bring together leading international researchers, government representatives, students and local community stakeholders. The workshop offers students the opportunity to participate in social research and to better…
Make your own vegan leather fashion at QUT festival
In a world in which petro-chemicals have a finite life and concerns are growing about the treatment of animals, QUT’s fashion students are creating cutting edge clothes from homemade ‘vegan leather’. Their experiments with bio-textiles made from fermented kombucha curds will be on display at CreateX, a festival on Sunday 28 August to…
Design thinking workshop empowers educators
QUT Design School researchers empowered early childhood educators in a design thinking and innovation workshop. The design academics led the Creche & Kindergarten (C&K) Early Education & Care Conference in June through a series of thought experiments to re-imagine the future of the sector in 20 years time. Three-hundred early childhood…
QUT Design PhD student awarded scholarship to attend the Oxford Internet Institute’s Summer Doctoral Programme
The annual Summer Doctoral Programme (SDP) is one of the highlights of the many QUT Creative Industries PhD students who have been fortunate enough to attend an SDP since its inception in 2003. It brings together outstanding doctoral students from around the world for a fortnight of study with our faculty and colleagues in a…
QUT Design PhD student awarded Code for Australia Fellowship
Irina is a cross-breed software developer, user experience designer and technology manager. Apart of being a Code for Australia fellow, Irina is pursuing a PhD at the Urban Informatics Research Lab at QUT. She aims to humanise the Smart City by investigating the establishment of an urban innovation hub in South-East Queensland to…
Design Research Intern heads home to Germany
From: http://www.cdtm.de/centerlings/ The Urban Informatics Research Lab at the Queensland University of Technology is one of CDTM’s partner programs for a semester abroad. Some of you might wonder, What is Urban Informatics? Urban Informatics is at the intersection of people, places, and technology. By definition it is an…
Urban Informatics is turning 10
The QUT Design Lab will join the 10 year anniversary celebrations of the QUT Urban Informatics Research Lab (2006 – 2016) on Wed night, 8 June 2016, in conjunction with the ACM Designing Interactive Systems (DIS’16) After Party. Join us, there will be cake! http://www.dis2016.org/program/social/…
Queensland Design Policy Summit
The QUT School of Design will host the inaugural Queensland Design Policy Summit on Thursday, 9 June 2016, in conjunction with DIS’16. The summit will bring together thought leaders and policy makers across design, business, science, education, and citymaking in a dialogue to canvass the merits of resurrecting a revised, fresh, and bold…
Designing Interactive Systems (DIS’16): Early Bird closes 8 May
ACM SIGCHI Designing Interactive Systems (DIS’16) 4-8 June 2016, Brisbane, Australia http://www.dis2016.org/ The ACM SIGCHI Conference on Designing Interactive Systems (DIS) is the premier international arena where designers, artists, psychologists, user experience researchers, and systems engineers come together to debate and shape the…
Rapid Analytics Interactive Scenario Explorer Toolkit
In collaboration with the University of NSW and funded by the CRC for Spatial Information, this project focuses on building a highly interactive geo-visualisation toolkit for accessing automated land valuation models through to more complex land value uplift models. This will enable land valuers, city councils, state government policy…
Why we should design smart cities for getting lost
New article in The Conversation (via ePrints): http://eprints.qut.edu.au/94778/…