School of Design and Architecture Graduate Exhibition

GradX 2026

GradX 2026 celebrates what our graduating students have achieved through their degree at Swinburne. It has been a pleasure to support and witness their growth over that time. We celebrate their hard work and dedication to their studies; their innovation and ability to think critically and design in response to environmental, cultural, and societal needs. Seeing our graduates from the School of Design and Architecture (SoDA) contribute to and shape the world via design is what continues to drive our staff, students and industry partners to create work that truly makes a difference.

Industry engagement is a core part of our ethos at SoDA. Every person that graduates with a Swinburne Design and Architecture degree has experienced elements and touchpoints—big and small—of Work Integrated Learning, ensuring that they are industry-ready graduates prepared for professional practice. This sets us apart from other design schools.

Swinburne’s School of Design and Architecture is a globally recognised, top 150 QS-ranked Art and Design school with a 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 needs 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

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.