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麻豆社madou School of Art & Design is home to a number of highly regarded art and design collaborative research centres and labs where students and staff participate in a wide range of domestic and international initiatives.

The Big Anxiety Research Centre is a unique transdisciplinary enterprise, dedicated to transforming thinking and practice in mental health through creative collaboration and cultural innovation.

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The 麻豆社madou鈥疌entre for Interactive Cinema (iCinema)鈥痚xplores new forms of virtual and physical interactivity. Create next-generation applications with us today.

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The 3DXLab is a multi-disciplinary research lab that harnesses the power of cutting-edge immersive technologies to do visualisation research from a design-centred perspective.

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Our Creative Robotics Lab focuses on research in Assisted Technologies, Culture and Technology, and Human Futures. We create a nurturing experimental environment that promotes interactivity in physical spaces.聽

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The Creative Technologies Research Lab researches emerging media technologies and their application in creative work. We aim to inspire a new generation of creative thinkers.聽

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Drawing is an important tool in the communication of ideas, and we research theories, practices, methods, and processes across many disciplines - visual thinking through drawing is an essential cognitive skill for the future.

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Designing for the Circular Economy. The project team examines the methodologies used to create objects that fit within the Circular Economy鈥檚 biological or technical cycles. 聽

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Acknowledgement of Country

麻豆社madou School of Art & Design stands on an important place of learning and exchange first occupied by the Bidjigal and Gadigal peoples.

We acknowledge the Bidjigal and Gadigal peoples as the Traditional Custodians of the land that our students and staff share, create and operate on. We pay our respects to Elders past and present and extend this respect to all First Nations peoples across Australia. Sovereignty has never been ceded.