Designing the future

RMIT's focus on cross-disciplinary research, enabled by the RMIT Research Institutes, ensures that expertise from many disciplines can be brought to bear when designing a future that includes:

• global warming
• water shortages
• increased urbanisation.

RMIT has a strong international reputation for research in the field of built environment with a focus on:

• contemporary design practice
• architecture
• urban and regional planning
• building.

RMIT’s state-of-the-art Design Hub will bring together a range of stakeholders from industry, government, community and education sectors to further enhance RMIT’s world-class design facilities.

RMIT research - Global, connected and making an impact

Who is making an impact?

• Design Research Institute investigates issues such as new urban environments, creating healthy and supportive workplaces, interactive spatial information systems and performance-enhancing sports garments.
• Global Cities Research Institute directly addresses questions of sustainability, resilience, security and adaptation in the face of processes of globalisation and global climate change.
• Platform Technologies Research Institute are designing ‘smart materials’ as the foundations for new devices across a range of machine, environmental and biological systems.
• RMIT's Research Centres focus on designing solutions for contemporary issues and improving on today's technology.