Bachelor of Industrial Design (Honours)

Overview

Are you interested in industrial design? Would you like to create change? This discipline shapes the world we live in.

Industrial designers have the ability to affect change and create powerful solutions that improve both human and environmental health and wellbeing.

Exploring the trans-disciplinary nature of contemporary industrial design, you'll engage in hands-on learning through our practice-based design studios, co-creating solutions through a human centred approach to product, service and experience design contexts.

For more than 70 years, industrial design at RMIT has offered aspiring designers groundbreaking experiences through technical, theoretical and applied immersions into the diverse and dynamic fields of industrial design practice. Working on real-world problems in industry and community contexts, this hands-on educational experience culminates in a year-long honours design research project. 

You will develop a design practice through:

the design of sustainable products, services and systems

design as a mechanism for enabling social reform and cultural enrichment

commercial and aesthetically focused approaches to product, transportation and furniture design

technologically and materially mediated interactions and experiences

the possibilities of form, process and material in response to rapid technological advances

operating at the intersections of our digital and material worlds

using design as a conduit to address social sustainability, cultural awareness and the wellbeing of clients, users and communities