Freya Robinson

I actually started a degree at another university, but I switched to RMIT because it has such a rich and unique way of teaching design. I really love the breadth of the classes and importance placed on ideas.

I actually started a degree at another university, but I switched to RMIT because it has such a rich and unique way of teaching design. I really love the breadth of the classes and importance placed on ideas. The course is so well connected to industry - I love that my lecturers also have their own practice as well as teach.

Last year I collaborated on a project with Zoe Fehlberg for our Design Studio subject. Our intention was to create a little utopia; a place of reverie for individuals to reclaim subjectivity, passion and dreams as the essence for human experience in urban culture. We constructed a 60 metre fabric 'skirt' that protrudes from an air vent of the Melbourne Museum (see image above). Activated by human presence, the design appraises a whimsical identity upon the regimented bluestone wall of the site.

This project has gone on to be included as part the Melbourne Fringe Festival's public sculpture show. Zoe and I also presented this project at the 5th International Urban Design Conference, which was an amazing opportunity!