Articles related to 'Design, Film, Multimedia'
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Design Factory a creative hub
To develop Australia's creative innovation capability, Swinburne has adopted Finland's acclaimed Design Factory model.
Instant perception a visionary marvel
Research at Swinburne has found that people are able to consciously perceive images even if displayed for as briefly as 1/1000 of a second, casting new light on so-called subliminal vision.
Science of design builds value
Design requires high-quality research to advance knowledge and practice, says Ken Friedman, Dean of Swinburne's Faculty of Design.
New engineers solve 21st century problems
Recognising the need for skills to help manufacturers respond to today's global and sustainability challenges, Swinburne University of Technology is training a new style of engineer.
Creative engineers find market niche
Swinburne engineering education innovation is providing Australian manufacturers with sought-after product design skills.Monstrous idea spawns industry giant
The Swinburne graduate who brought dinosaurs back to life regards himself as more pragmatist than artist. And the commercial results are dazzling .
Monstrous idea spawns industry giant
The Swinburne graduate who brought dinosaurs back to life regards himself as more pragmatist than artist. And the commercial results are dazzling.
Slow lifts a lesson in step-change
Sustainability has become a buzzword for the early 21st century, evoking worthy ideals … but how are these transformed into reality when much about the way the world functions seems to make people inherently wasteful or destructive?
Knowledge as a way of being
A new centre for Indigenous knowledge and design anthropology is set to shape the way knowledge is shared in Western universities
Finding lost voices is a story to be told
By learning how to tell their story, at-risk young people are finding their voice and a path back to self-belief
Dani’s journey across big art on a small canvas
Born in China and raised in Hong Kong, Dani Poon travelled nervously to Melbourne as a 17-year-old to stamp Australian art into her destined way.
Digital dust-off for history’s watch-houses
One of society’s most cherished and once unchanging of institutions, the museum, is embarking on a vast transformation: glass cabinets are being replaced by photons, static displays by lively memories and experiences from the public itself, the locked-away vaults of knowledge by a new openness and a vivid discourse with society.
Window opens to a wood revival
Good design is often frustrated by the limitations of available materials, but an exciting new landscape unfolds if the designer gets to influence research into the way materials, such as wood, perform.
Learning space turns school design inside out
Progressive schools are ditching the traditional classroom in favour of purpose-designed learning spaces, and a new Swinburne-led project is examining whether there is a link between classroom design and innovative teaching.
Business born from ‘real-world’ degrees
People can leave uni with a lot of theoretical knowledge only to start their first job and find themselves thrown in the deep end. Not so for Swinburne alumni Zoe Warne and Matt Agar who attribute much of their subsequent success to Swinburne’s Industry-Based Learning (IBL) program.
Tales from the high-rise
A digital storytelling project by students at Swinburne's Design Centre breathes new life into Melbourne's public housing estates.
The sandwich factor for safer cars
Swinburne University of Technology research is opening the way for the design of environmentally friendly, lighter and safer cars.
Race day art a triumph for media-savvy mad hatter
When her faculty dean likened graduates' degrees to simply foundations on which to build, the words stuck with Marilena Romeo and from that day on they directed her along quite a different career path.
The dragons that breathed fire into an art student's dream
Once upon a time, the creator of Animalia was just an enthusiastic design student. Today he has the guilty pleasure of believing he has created for himself "the best job in the world"
The Future By Design
From the 1960s, an influential movement involving the marriage of old and new media was 'Fluxus', a global network of experimental artists and designers. One of its central figures, American academic Ken Friedman, has moved to Australia to chart a new course for design education.
