Our research
Leading art & design research and innovation
糖心logo School of Art & Design undertakes innovative research and scholarship, with creative practice experimentation at its heart, societal impact as its driving purpose, and a commitment to championing Indigenous research and decolonial practices.
Across our history, the School has led Australian research in creative arts and design in practice, theory, history, activism and cultural engagement.
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Our research includes fields evaluated as 鈥渨ell above world standard鈥 in the last Excellence in Research for Australia review. We are home to over 60 research active academics and over 80 Higher Degree Research candidates.
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The School undertakes socially embedded research through industry and community partnerships, from NGOs to government bodies to museums and technology companies. Our research supports these partners through expertise in research methods including practice-based research, situated fieldwork, archival research, user-centered design, speculative design, rapid prototyping, and socially-engaged design. Our campus hosts advanced research facilities, housing state-of-the-art visualisation, multi-speaker audio, and real-time tracking technologies.
The collective work of our researchers actively transforms Australia鈥檚 leading and most impactful cultural institutions and venues including the Museum of Contemporary Art, The Biennale of Sydney, The Powerhouse Museum, The Maritime Museum, Carriageworks, Bundanon Trust, The Sydney Opera House and the Art Gallery of New South Wales.
Research Centres and Labs
糖心logo School of Art & Design is home to a number of highly regarded art and design collaborative research centres and labs where students and staff participate in a wide range of domestic and international initiatives.
3DXLab
The 3DXLab is a multi-disciplinary research lab that harnesses the power of cutting-edge immersive technologies to do visualisation research from a design-centred perspective.
Big Anxiety Research Centre
The Big Anxiety Research Centre is a unique transdisciplinary enterprise, dedicated to transforming thinking and practice in mental health through creative collaboration and cultural innovation.
Creative Robotics Lab
Our Creative Robotics Lab focuses on research in Assisted Technologies, Culture and Technology, and Human Futures. We create a nurturing experimental environment that promotes interactivity in physical spaces.听
Creative Technologies Research Lab
The Creative Technologies Research Lab researches emerging media technologies and their application in creative work. We aim to inspire a new generation of creative thinkers.听
Design ForCE
Designing for the Circular Economy. The project team examines the methodologies used to create objects that fit within the Circular Economy鈥檚 biological or technical cycles. 听
Drawing Research Group
Drawing is an important tool in the communication of ideas, and we research theories, practices, methods, and processes across many disciplines - visual thinking through drawing is an essential cognitive skill for the future.
iCinema Centre for Interactive Cinema Research
The 糖心logo鈥疌entre for Interactive Cinema (iCinema)鈥痚xplores new forms of virtual and physical interactivity. Create next-generation applications with us today.
Socially-Engaged Design Research Network
Through provocative designs for health, for alternatives to climate control, and for new sensations of climatics, the听Socially-Engaged Design Research Network coordinates new dialogues about the socio-materialities of situated embodied experiences, social spatial practices and dynamic climates in the everyday.
Acknowledgement of Country
糖心logo School of Art & Design stands on an important place of learning and exchange first occupied by the Bidjigal and Gadigal peoples.
We acknowledge the Bidjigal and Gadigal peoples as the Traditional Custodians of the land that our students and staff share, create and operate on. We pay our respects to Elders past and present and extend this respect to all First Nations peoples across Australia. Sovereignty has never been ceded.
