Design
X + Y = fashion
Revolutionising the fashion industry with a bold new approach to patternmaking.
Innovation in lace work and textile design
New techniques for making, exhibiting and understanding lace.
Building international relationships through interdisciplinary design
New approaches to collaborative design between Australia and Indonesia.
Making worlds through the scale model
Examining the physical scale model in theatre and architecture.
Typographic Hollywood
Revealing new insights into American history and culture.
Transforming prison education with clever design
A new education model for inmates in New South Wales prisons.
Firesticks: designing for country
Enhancing connections between Indigenous ecological knowledge and scientific approaches to land management.
Interactive stepping tile for rehabilitation
Can interactive technology and design research help with physicial rehabiliation?
A new model for industry collaboration
Enhancing the R&D capabilities of Australian manufacturing companies with an innovative model.
Architecture
The global reach of interior urbanism
Shedding light on the previously unheralded impact of architect John Portman on the interior urbanism movement in America.
A masterful plan for effective space usage
Transforming a leading Sydney grammar school using innovative architectural processes.
Beyond the Bauhaus – lessons from Breslau
Uncovering a forgotten period of European cultural history.
The role of architecture in the Indo-Pacific
Understanding the political, historical and strategic context of Australia’s Indo-Pacific neighbours.
Waste from work: lowering workforce carbon emissions
Reducing Sydney’s carbon emissions by transforming building and public transport design.
Architectural connections to the urban environment
Increased community connection to the built environment.
Built Environment
Developing effective council rating systems
Implementing council rating systems in line with good tax design principles.
The construction service intelligence HYway
The development of data-driven systems within Hansen Yuncken that are transforming construction industry processes.
Reducing the environmental impact of office fit out cycles
Reducing the environmental impact of the fit out/strip out cycle in commercial office spaces.
Clean, green, heating machine
A multi-disciplinary team bringing together science, sustainable building design and architecture may soon develop the first living algae buildings in Australia.
Rental discrimination in Sydney
The Australian Human Rights Commission is working to combat rental discrimination in the real estate sector, after research showed discrimination is rampant in the Sydney rental market.
Urban economics and the cities of the future
A vision for reconstructed urban economies that leads to a fairer and more just world.