We come from each of the design faculties taught at RMIT: industrial design, architecture, interior design and communications. Intelligent and relevant design breaches the boundaries imposed by the designer’s specific qualification:
A speaker series designed by students from various disciplines in collaboration at RMIT will address 21st century approaches to this fundamental insight. Despite the
fact that design promises integrated solutions to complex problems, it often does not deliver on these promises - hence the field is increasingly left aside when it comes to issues of substance. This speaker series is designed to investigate the reasons for this critical situation and the ways to overcome this. Such a series will encourage a design trajectory that is much more flexible and
resilient to increasing economic and social pressures. We need to forge successful bridge builders:
Through the staging of exemplary scenarios of cross-collaboration between designers, the public and private sector, SOL:id aims to create a platform not only for widened design approaches but equally
addresses and invites representatives from public and private sectors to contribute to this dialogue. This might surface the core problems for design in the 21st century as we feel that we’re just starting
to scratch the surface.
