School of Design and Architecture Graduate Exhibition | 50 years of Industry Collaboration

GradX 2024

This year at GradX we take the opportunity to celebrate your achievements during your time at Swinburne in 2024; it’s been a pleasure to have taught and experienced your growth throughout the years. We celebrate your hard work and dedication to your studies; your innovation and ability to think and design in response to environmental, cultural, and societal needs. Seeing our graduates from the School of Design and Architecture (SoDA) contribute and shape the world via design is what drives our staff and students to create work that truly makes a difference.

SoDA is home to Australia’s first Graphic Design course, and this year we are also celebrating the 50th anniversary of its Industry Placement program which was launched in 1974. Industry engagement is a key part of our courses, and every person that graduates through a Swinburne Design and Architecture degree has had elements and touchpoints – big and small – of Work Integrated Learning, ensuring that they are industry-ready graduates. This sets us apart from other design courses. GradX 2024 celebrates this invaluable connection to industry that we have enjoyed for 50 years.

2024 also celebrated the launch of our new course, the Bachelor of Design (Fashion). With its focus on future technologies and sustainability, it aligns perfectly to key parts of Swinburne Design DNA. Swinburne is now on track to be the largest design school in Australia with the most comprehensive offering of creative industry programs, meaning that a Swinburne Design and Architecture graduate will be ready to meet the needs of industry – nationally and internationally – including those that have yet to be imagined.

Communication Design

Communication Design (Honours)

Photomedia

UX Interaction Design

Motion Design

Branded Environments

Bachelor of Design (Architecture)

Industrial Design

Interior Architecture

Product Design Engineering

Architectural Engineering

Master of Architecture & Urban Design

Design Strategy & Innovation

Master of Design

Design Factory Melbourne

Postgraduates

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Episode 10: 2022 GradX EVOLVE

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Episode 9: Photomedia and Business

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Episode 8: Designing, Making, and Collaboration

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Acknowledgement of Country

The School of Design and Architecture respectfully acknowledges the Wurundjeri peoples of the Kulin Nation as the Traditional Owners and knowledge-keepers of the lands, waters and sky that surround us, where we work, learn, create, communicate and make place. We recognise that sovereignty has never been ceded and this always was and will always be Wurundjeri Country. We pay our respects to Elders past, present and to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people who continue to make a better world through design.

We extend our acknowledgement to the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander staff, students, alumni, real-life clients, and knowledge keepers, who have contributed to our own education diversity and growth. We will continue to ensure that staff and students respectfully honour ancestral connection to Country and Place in everything that they do.

We are dedicated to the notion of design to make a better world and we acknowledge that making tools, shaping place, sharing stories, making meaning, wayfinding and collaborating have long been and continue to be both central and integral to First Peoples' cultures. We recognize that Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples’ cultural contributions have continued relevance to design practice and commit to: reconciling ancestries of design and contemporary practice as well as pursuing culturally and professionally appropriate ways to engage with a diverse population of colleagues, industries and clients. In a time of treaty-making and voice we understand that there are overlaps between caring for Country and the sustainable production of goods, services, experiences, products and buildings.

Guided by the principles of respect, reconciliation, and reciprocity we undertake to indigenising and decolonising design practice by dismantling colonial structures and challenging biases that have marginalised Indigenous voices and design.

As students of SoDA you will be given opportunities to both engage with and educate yourself in Indigenous creative practices and cultural protocols through a lens of inclusivity, diversity, respect, mutual understanding, inter-cultural dialogue in all aspects of design practice. Indigenous people have been telling stories, making tools, and connecting to Country through visual media, placemaking and place marking for more than 60,000 years and these practices are part of an ongoing, evolving and live tradition.