Look beyond design as usual

Explore works from our students, alumni and staff that showcase creativity, excellence and skill.

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Uncover your unique design identity by embracing both traditional and experimental design techniques and technologies. Combine technical skills development with the study of sustainable design principles and emerge as a creative, inclusive and socially responsive practitioner.

Design tomorrow’s beautiful, functional, human-focused products. As a product designer, you’ll how to blend creativity and analysis to create items for consumer, commercial or industrial use.

Get unparalleled access to our world-class workshops and build vital skills in patternmaking, textile fabrication and fashion design.

If you’re dreaming of a vibrant future in design, look no further than UTS. Offering hands-on learning, human-centred approaches and future-ready technological capabilities, it’s no wonder we’re the top university in Sydney for art and design.

We offer short courses and microcredentials in Design Innovation.

Our research themes

Engage in research focused on practical outcomes. Our approach is flexible, working across disciplines and collaborating with industry, government and the community.

Material Ecologies

Material Ecologies encapsulates a range of design practices and materials-led research and is an open space for process-led, experimental inquiry and practice. 

Critical Visualisation

Critical Visualisation researches the capacities and politics of the visual in shaping the critical issues and stories of our time.

Change Design

Change Design is applied research into how design practices and perspectives can enable communities and organisations to transition toward more just, diverse and safe futures. 

Intersectional Design Histories and Theories

Our research reveals new inter-disciplinary histories and theories across intersectional genders, communities, workers, ethnicities and sexualities. 

 

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Our people

Collaborate with our internationally-acclaimed staff. 

Latest news and events

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New initiative aims to pioneer zero waste clothing from zero waste yarn in Australia.

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Fashion is one of the most powerful tools we have for understanding ourselves and the world around us. Nowhere is this clearer than in the story of Black American tailoring and the legacy of the Black dandy.

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International award highlights UTS-led biosolar innovation driving greener, smarter cities.

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How a nature-based approach to urban planning could combat climate change impacts.