Design Futures Lab

The Design Futures Lab is a unique collaborative group of students, staff, academics and industry professionals that perform engaging, open-ended, real-world projects.

The projects performed by The Design Futures Lab are ambitious, long-term and meaningful: something for students to ‘get their teeth stuck into’. They are well beyond the scope of normal classrooms, allowing students and staff to venture into the unknown, make real discoveries, learn from failures and contribute to society in meaningful ways.

Importantly, the projects develop skills and attributes that are highly valued in modern workplaces, including problem-solving skills, data analysis, interdisciplinary collaboration, perseverance and a solution-focused attitude.

Design Futures Lab Projects

Some examples of our projects include:

• Geelong Design Week 2022, 2023 & 2024
  • Matter(s) of Time (2024)
  • Grounded (2023)
    
  • Sensory (2022)
• Melbourne Design Week 2023 & 2024
  • Material Matters 02, in collaboration with Nexus Designs (2024)
  • Living Matter(s) (2023)
• VR Technologies
• Re-designing everyday products such as takeaway coffee cups and disposable cutlery using bioplastic materials
• Design Thinking for Carbon Offset Alternatives
• Floating House Design
• Additive and Subtractive manufacturing of Biomaterials, Nano Materials, and Grown materials exploration for the built environment
• Virtual Reality and Augmented reality Workshop with PHORIA, Immersive Technology Studio.

Projects are student led by interest and will change each year or semester with new members. The subject runs on Wednesdays Periods 5 and 6 with an after-school session on Fridays 3.30pm - 5.00pm and is open to all students.