RMIT Interior Design

Congratulations to RMIT University - Interior Design / School of Architecture & Urban Design - student Wenyu Zhang for winning the 2025 Victorian Premier's Design Awards (Best in Category - Student Design Award)

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Tutor: Dr Andy Miller
Coordinator: Dr James Carey
Program Manager: Dr Phoebe Whitman
Asoicate Dean: Roger Kemp

T.R.I.A.L. (Test, Reuse, Innovative, Assemblage, Lifecycle) is a sustainable furniture system designed for students who frequently relocate. It creatively repurposes discarded furniture using advanced technologies such as 3D printing and digital fabrication. By combining reused components with custom connectors, it provides adaptable, sustainable, and personalised furniture solutions while addressing the environmental challenges of fast furniture culture.

Read more about the project and the other winners on the Victorian Premiers Design Award website https://premiersdesignawards.vic.gov.au/entries/2025/student-design/t.r.i.a.l.

Learn what makes a strong portfolio.

In this workshop, you will participate in a design activity with staff and students to learn how to format creative work and create visual layouts.  
 
As part of RMIT Open Day 2025, we are holding a series of 45-minute workshops on techniques for developing your portfolio. You will have the opportunity to learn about the interior design program and the courses you study in the first year, speak with current students, and undertake a portfolio design activity.  
 
1. Workshop at 11.00 am
2. Workshop at 12.30 pm 
3. Workshop at 3.00 pm 
 
Everyone is welcome to join on the day!

RMIT Design Hub
Level 4, Room 4 
 
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Join us at RMIT Open Day 2025
Sunday 10 August  
10 am - 4 pm 
150 Victoria St, Carlton 
Level 4, RMIT Design Hub

RMIT Interior Design is concerned with the social, cultural, material, technological, and temporal conditions of the spaces we inhabit.
Learn how students address global and local challenges shaping interior design and explore the complex relationships between people, their environments, and other living entities through innovative studio-based learning.

- Explore the student exhibition.
- Speak with current students and academic staff. 
- Discover the projects, skills, and ideas you will develop studying interior design in this program. 
 
Information Presentations in the Lecture Theatre
Presentation 10:15 am 
Presentation 11:45 am  
Presentation 2:15 pm 
 
Presenters 
Dr Roger Kemp, Associate Dean, Interior Design  
Dr Phoebe Whitman, Program Manager, Bachelor of Interior Design (Honours) 

1: Natasha Veri / 2: RMIT Design Hub / 3: INDEX - Graduate Exhibition, RMIT Design Hub Gallery / 4: Research Major Project by Geraldine Lewa / 5: Research Major Project by Liwen Lian / 6: Students pinning up for a tutorial / 7: Entry furniture + breakout spaces by Searle x Waldron Architecture / 8: Level 1. Design Hub Workshop.

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Jackson Bi visited Japan recently, where he received the Young CAADRIA Award 2025 from the Association for Computer-Aided Architectural Design Research in Asia (CAADRIA) 

Jackson presented his research titled ‘Thin Metal Surface Formation’, which was developed at the RMIT Architecture Tectonic Formation Lab  in collaboration with Dr Roland Snooks  Professor in RMIT Architecture. 

The project ‘Super Shell’ was exhibited at the University of Tokyo during the CAADRIA Conference in March 2025.

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Deep Time Real Time 
RMIT Design Hub Gallery, Level 2

Tuesday 11 April, 1:00PM–2:00PM 
RMIT Design Hub Gallery, Level 2
Join Alicia Frankovich and Emma Jackson, alongside Deep Time Real Time curators for a tour of the exhibition – this week focusses on a discussion of their respective works. 
https://events.humanitix.com/artist-talk-with-alicia-frankovich-and-emma-jackson
 
 
Impacts of time literacy on design thinking 
Lecture with Simulaa
RMIT Design Hub Level 3, Lecture Theatre
Wednesday 16 April, 6:30–8:00PM 
[Note: DTRT exhibition will be open for a special event viewing from 5.00pm – 6.30pm]
 
Architects Simulaa present a thought-provoking lecture on the ‘impacts of time literacy on design thinking’ through the lens of Deep Time Real Time themes of ‘ecology, energy, technology’. The lecture will be introduced by the exhibition’s creative director, Fleur Watson, and followed by short reflections by invited respondent, Professor Wendy Steele (RMIT) and Ewan McEoin (NGV).  
https://events.humanitix.com/impacts-of-time-literacy-on-design-thinking

Day 6. On the last day in Ho Chi Minh City, the interior design students gathered at the Old Compass Cafe in District 1 for progress presentations over lunch. Each student presented visual work they had generated whilst in HCMC. They spoke for 5 minutes, discussing their observersations of the city and what was emerging as fascinating to them. They connected the social, cultural and environmental aspects of the city with their aspirations for the RMIT campus library in Ho Chi Minh City. They proposed new ideas for the library and how it could function to incorporate these various qualities and characteristics of place.

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Day 5: Students returned to the RMIT campus in Ho Chi Minh City to continue learning about the library and study the campus culture.
We held an interdisciplinary session with the Architectural and Landscape Architecture students, during which all three disciplines could share their observations from the week through an exhibition and group discussion.

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