Industrial Design

Industrial Design sits at the nexus of contemporary society, linking industry and economy with people, culture, society and environment. From the design of everyday things to complex systems, from designing with community groups to designing with the worlds largest corporations, from embracing intricate cultural rituals that have developed over millennia to conceptualising alternative futures for a world experiencing massive change, the work of industrial designers has far reaching impacts into everyone’s lives, everywhere.

Since its inauguration in 1949, the Industrial Design Program at RMIT has been at the forefront of articulating the needs of society, culture and environment through the development of products, services and systems mindful of technological and social change.

Today the program offers design education and research opportunities in sustainable and ethical design, product/service/systems design, scenario and interaction design alongside established product and furniture design practices.

Students of the program are engendered with a diverse set of experiences from which to construct individual notions of professional and ethical design practice in a contemporary global condition of uncertainty. Vitality and debate is ensured in the program though the active involvement of industry, community and a wide range of leading academic and practitioner staff with diverse expertise.

The culture of the program fosters the development of the knowledge, capabilities and confidence to challenge and shape the potential contribution that industrial designers may make to constructing a desirable, relevant and sustainable future.