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Through the engagement of an international community of forward thinking practice based academic researchers and professional designers, the RMIT Master of Design Innovation and Technology (MDIT) speculates on the future of design and seeks to develop design methodologies that integrate the needs of people with the potentials that lie within technological innovation. 

 

Each semester students choose from a range of partnered design projects and skill based elective offerings that address the following research streams:

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• FABRICATION - digital design, fabrication, and advanced manufacturing

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• INTERACTION - interactive and intelligent objects and spaces

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• IMMERSION - embodied, sensorial, and affective immersive environments

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• REGENERATION - low-carbon, circular, regenerative, and more-than-human design solutions

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• SOCIAL INNOVATION –strategic design approaches that enhance human well-being​

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As innovation in design practice is positioned at the intersection of several disciplines, the program addresses issues from a wide variety of professions such as engineering, architecture, landscape architecture, interior design, industrial design, service design, graphic design, animation, interaction, lighting, media and sound design.

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