The first centre of its kind in Australia, the 10-storey building will be spread over 13,000 square metre. It will bring together top design academics, industry practitioners and postgraduate researchers in a cross-disciplinary collaborative hub.
When fully occupied, the building will be home to about 250 academics and postgraduate researchers from a broad range of design disciplines including architecture, creative media, game design, engineering, landscape architecture, industrial design, textiles and fashion design, interior design and urban design. The building will also offer about 300 postgraduate students access to state-of-the-art prototyping facilities for their studies.
The $80 million project was built with $28.6 million from the Australian Government through the Education Investment Fund.
The Fund is also providing $4.5 billion to support infrastructure projects in the higher education, VET and research sectors, with $3.1 billion already spent and 20 major projects completed.
