Design Studios operate as laboratories conducive to experimentation, investigation, and the exploration of design as an agent for understanding and responding to issues in the built environment of contemporary society. A diverse range of studios offered each semester celebrate and extend the multi-faceted capabilities of the Landscape Architecture Discipline to engage with these issues. Each studio is framed through a specific design approach and an inquiry into a specific field of design knowledge. The studios simultaneously support the development of an individual position and expertise.

Studios are led by academic practitioners drawn from a distinguished local and international field operating through a range of teaching and learning modes. Contemporary design projects and/or issues will provide the focus for these inquiries in order to develop scenario based design proposals.

This Design Research Studio incorporates a work integrated learning experience in which knowledge and skills will be applied and assessed in a real or simulated workplace context and where feedback from industry, community, and government bodies are integral to your experience. The intention is to develop an individual capacity to articulate and execute specific modes of design operation and therefore contribute to the discourse of Landscape Architectural practice and research.