The Common Design Studio is a long-running collaboration between global partners in design education. It tackles the big challenges facing today’s world. The studio brings design students together to generate new ideas and provocations in relation to those challenges.

This project has a design-led focus on developing actionable strategies for a beneficial, sustainable, holistic relationship with the earth, its diverse peoples, its flora and fauna, addressing some of the risks to our interconnected ecologies. 

 

For this year's Common Design Studio the overarching theme is ‘DATA—Beyond Numbers.’ We encourage students to delve into the deeper, intrinsic aspects of data that shape our lives and influence our daily functions, rather than just focusing on numbers and digits.

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This intensive two week design studio will examine DATA from as many different angles as possible, understand it through our design research processes, and propose ‘recipes’ for activating and improving our thinking and relationship with DATA.  The studio’s results will be gathered, published online and exhibited in Melbourne Design Week 2025.

 

In what ways is DATA different to other materials, in terms of its properties and qualities?

In what ways can we utilise such qualities and properties to expand design disciplines? 

In what ways can we learn from such behaviours and agencies to expand design practices?

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