Our research
Leading art & design research and innovation
UNSW School of Art & Design undertakes innovative research and scholarship, with creative practice experimentation at its heart, societal impact as its driving purpose, and a commitment to championing Indigenous research and decolonial practices.
Across our history, the School has led Australian research in creative arts and design in practice, theory, history, activism and cultural engagement.
Our research includes fields evaluated as “well above world standard” in the last Excellence in Research for Australia review. We are home to over 60 research active academics and over 80 Higher Degree Research candidates.
The School undertakes socially embedded research through industry and community partnerships, from NGOs to government bodies to museums and technology companies. Our research supports these partners through expertise in research methods including practice-based research, situated fieldwork, archival research, user-centered design, speculative design, rapid prototyping, and socially-engaged design. Our campus hosts advanced research facilities, housing state-of-the-art visualisation, multi-speaker audio, and real-time tracking technologies.
The collective work of our researchers actively transforms Australia’s leading and most impactful cultural institutions and venues including the Museum of Contemporary Art, The Biennale of Sydney, The Powerhouse Museum, The Maritime Museum, Carriageworks, Bundanon Trust, The Sydney Opera House and the Art Gallery of New South Wales.
Research Centres and Labs
UNSW 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.
Acknowledgement of Country
UNSW 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.
