Design is the missing D in R&D

Australia produces world-class research but struggles to translate discoveries into action. The gap isn't about capability—it's bridging breakthrough and application.

Design provides that bridge. Design is a framework for innovation and change: it offers a common language across disciplines, prototypes ideas in practice, and reveals opportunities for impact.

JOIN US TO DISCUSS how design can add value to R&D.

THURSDAY 13 NOVEMBER: 3:00–4:30 pm AEDT (onsite at RMIT + live streamed online)

3pm - Professor Andrea Siodmok will launch M*DF Papers a compilation of final work by M*DF Graduates

3.30pm - Our Panel — Andrea Siodmok, Amanda Good, Tom Bentley, Laura Kostanski, Melanie Rayment (see Linkedin profiles below)— will explore the proposition that Design is the missing D in R&D from educational, corporate, social innovation and policy and governance perspectives.

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Acknowledgement of Country

RMIT University acknowledges the people of the Woi wurrung and Boon wurrung language groups of the eastern Kulin Nation on whose unceded lands we conduct the business of the University. RMIT University respectfully acknowledges their Ancestors and Elders, past and present. RMIT also acknowledges the Traditional Custodians and their Ancestors of the lands and waters across Australia where we conduct our business - Artwork 'Sentient' by Hollie Johnson, Gunaikurnai and Monero Ngarigo.

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