2024 Nancy Hillier Memorial Lecture

Join us Thursday 7 November for an intergenerational panel discussion, highlighting how women from different generations have approached environmental issues with boldness and creativity. 

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At UNSW Arts, Design & Architecture, we're focused on progress for all.

The world faces monumental challenges. It always has. But if you look around, progress is everywhere. People are coming together, imagining a better future. From design that advances healthcare, to sustainable cities and equal access to education, the progress we make together can improve people's lives worldwide. 

Study with us

We have a diverse range of disciplines where you’ll develop unique and career-ready skills. Together, we’ll turn creativity and critical thinking into real-life solutions.

With us, you’ll challenge and be challenged to push the way you think about people, places and cultures. You’ll thrive in an open, supportive and inclusive community that encourages and celebrates your difference.

Our impact

ADA2051 Foundational Strategy

The ADA2051 Foundational Strategy outlines how we’ll deliver our mission to realise our vision. In this strategic framework, we set out the way we’ll use our knowledge and skills to create a sustainable, connected, healthy and socially just world.

Commitment to Indigenous communities

Arts, Design & Architecture is committed to creating a faculty where Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students and staff feel culturally safe and supported to pursue their dreams and goals.

Creating impact

Find out more about our research impact over the last few years through this series of stories highlighting the rich diversity of approaches and achievements among ADA researchers.

Chairs

These world leaders provide thought leadership in their respective fields. Chairs deliver innovative education, cutting-edge research and global knowledge exchange.

Innovation Hub

The Innovation Hub is a space for creativity, inclusion, collaboration and problem solving. It’s a space where experts, students and professionals come together.

Matraville Education Partnership

This exciting first-of-its-kind school-based university education program delivers a range of educational opportunities for the school and its community.

Research centres & institutes

Our research centres and institutes conduct high-impact research. We address major issues in diverse areas such as education, social policy, arts, urban research and more.

Acknowledgement of Country

UNSW Sydney’s Kensington and Paddington campuses are built on Aboriginal Lands.

We pay our respects to the Bidjigal and Gadigal peoples who are the Custodians of these lands. We acknowledge the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, the First Australians, whose lands, winds and waters we all now share, and pay respect to their unique values, and their continuing and enduring cultures which deepen and enrich the life of our nation and communities.

As a community, UNSW Arts, Design & Architecture acknowledges that Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples have survived and thrived through centuries of systemic injustice, exclusion, and erasure. As a new faculty, it is our priority to develop an Indigenous Strategy that is collaboratively developed, productive and purposeful to affect long-term change in the educational outcomes of Indigenous students and the intellectual and cultural integrity of Indigenous teaching and research across the faculty. 

Read more about UNSW’s Indigenous Strategy. Please get in touch to be part of these developments and stay tuned as we share more information about our Indigenous Strategy.

Artwork by Leilani Tallulah Knight, “U going to listen now?”, 2021

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