Examples of design studios, communications and specialisations programmes taught within the Interior Design program in the School of Architecture and Design at RMIT University, 2006 - 2024
Soft Space, 2024
Master of Interior Design studio partnered with ACMI,
This studio explored the expansive interior conditions of contemporary museums and exhibition spaces, focusing on ACMI's innovative approach to the museum model. It emphasised the multiplatform museum experience, integrating physical and digital content.
Throughout the semester, students investigated the concepts of immersion, participation, and responsive environments through drawing and making highlighting the spatial, relational, and temporal experiences of perception. This work considered how the interior experience within a 'black box' are influenced by shifting relations of light, surface, and form.
Industtry Presentations, Students ,Shruti Raman, Wang Jie Anjali Sharma Gandal Digital Future Lab, ACMI 2024
Interfacing the archive:
Design experiments with Gerard Herbst,2023
A partnered design studio with the RMIT Design Archive - exploring modes of production and reproduction from 2D to 3D and expansive patterning with the prestige fabric collection produced by Gerard Herbst an industrial designer, textile designer, and design educator at RMIT till retirement in 1976. These works were developed into an exhibition installed in the RMIT Design Hub window. The site of the window gallery and its location within an urban context was utilised as a testing site and situation.
Time Traveller 2019 design studio in collaboration with the Capitol, led in partnership with Ying-Lan Dann, received funding from Capitol for an exhibition as part of their 2019 redevelopment and opening. This project showcased our interdisciplinary approach, strengthened ties with Capitol, and expanded our research into public engagement and exhibition practices.
Binaries+ displacements
This design studio explored the ambiguous spaces of mixed reality.
Students considered configured space a platform for enabling multiple experiences rather than prescribing one spatial outcome. Low-tech site-specific responses speculated on the potential of multi-layered space informed through new spatial understandings generated by the high technology of
mixed realities.
Throughout the studio, students developed experimental and explorative methods of spatial and temporal displacement in order to create new sensory and immersive experiences and connections within the urban
environment.
Pop-up shops_
This specialisation explored the possibilities of a ‘pop-up shop’ and temporary retail space as a place for display and connection to remote online shopping, relating real spaces with virtual space.
Students explored how consumers' affection for mobile devices and virtual stores demands enhanced experiences and multiple modes of engagement within the shopping environment.
Students explored opportunities of site and under used spatial nooks within the CBD to develop and test the notion of interface and considered both window and screen as a site of exchange
for information and experience.
