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国民彩票 Arts, Design & Architecture聽comprises a dynamic community of聽experts and聽researchers, centres, labs, and facilities聽seeking to understand how聽technology聽can聽improve lives and create more sustainable industries and societies.

Driven by a human-centered approach, our technology capabilities聽are creating聽impacts聽across many聽critical聽sectors.

Whether planning urban futures, transforming manufacturing processes, or changing minds through immersive experiences, our partnerships generate real world benefits.

Our facilities include a 3D volumetric capture arena, full-body immersive visualisation platforms and collaborative robots, combined with world leading expertise in the interactions and implications of human-technology change.

Explore our full range of capabilities below or reach out to learn more.

Key specialisations
Adaptive technology for health and inclusion
Computational design, data analytics and automated decision making
Creative and cultural sector innovations
Critical and social analysis of technology
Generative AI, simulation and immersive visualisation
Human-technology interactions and social robotics
Socio-technical advances for climate, security and urban futures
Spatial planning, architectural and manufacturing transformations

Research groups and facilities

3DXLab

A multi-disciplinary research lab that harnesses the power of innovative immersive technologies to do visualisation research from a design-centred perspective.鈥

Specialisations:

  • Creative and cultural sector innovations聽
  • Generative AI, simulation and immersive visualisation

Key facilities:

  • Immersive Cylinder (7-metre diameter, 340-degree panoramic projection with a surround audio system)
  • 3D Volumetric Capture Arena
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Advanced Architectural Analytics Laboratory (A鲁 LAB)

Improving the way people create, experience, and inhabit spaces, A鲁 LAB is a multi-disciplinary research lab that specialises in architectural analytics and design computing. It uses advanced intelligent techniques ranging from design automation, machine learning to neurophysiology.

Specialisations:

  • Computational design, data analytics and decision making
  • Spatial planning, architectural and manufacturing transformations

Key facilities:

  • Biometric Recording (Emotive EPOC X, GP3 Eye Tracker, Omron BP)
  • Virtual Reality Simulation (Meta Quest 3, Insta 360 X4)
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ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society (ADM+S)

Brings together universities, industry, government, and the community to support the development of responsible, ethical, and inclusive automated decision-making.

Specialisations:

  • Critical and social analysis of technology
  • Human-technology interactions and social robotics

ARC Centre for Next鈥揋en Architectural Manufacturing (arch_manu)

An interdisciplinary, industry-focused research and training initiative that aims to accelerate digital transformation processes within the Architecture, Engineering, and Construction sector to meet critical sustainability goals.

Specialisations:

  • Computational design, data analytics and automated decision making
  • Socio-technical advances for climate, security and urban futures聽
  • Spatial planning, architectural and manufacturing transformations聽

Big Anxiety Research Centre (BARC)

A unique transdisciplinary enterprise, dedicated to transforming thinking and practice in mental health through creative collaboration and cultural innovation. Includes two labs - fEEL Lab (Felt Experience and Empathy) and emLab (Ethnographic Media Lab).

Specialisations:

  • Adaptive technology for health and inclusion
  • Creative and cultural sector innovations

Key facilities:

  • 32鈥 Lookinglass holographic display
  • Insta360 Pro omnidirectional camera
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City Analytics Lab (CAL)

Driven by the City Futures Research Centre 鈥 a national leader in scholarly applied public interest research to advance the understanding of our cities, the City Analytics Lab brings the people, places, policies, and technologies to improve the planning and management of Cities. The lab also integrates to the Centre鈥檚 bespoke technology platforms 鈥 CityData, CityViz and CityDash.

Specialisations:

  • Computational design, data analytics and automated decision making
  • Spatial planning, architectural and manufacturing transformations

Key facilities:

  • 8 Panel Media Wall
  • 6 interactive multi touch screens powered by high performance workstations.
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City Futures Research Centre (CFRC)

A national leader in scholarly applied public interest research to advance the understanding of our cities focusing on people, places, policies, and technologies. Includes bespoke technology platforms - City data, City Viz and City Dash.

Specialisations:

  • Computational design, data analytics and decision making聽
  • Generative AI, simulation and immersive visualisation
  • Socio-technical advances for climate, security and urban futures聽

Creative Robotics Lab (CRL)

A collaborative research and educational space that advances interaction between humans and machines by designing and evaluating novel interfaces and incorporating the principles of creative practice in its approach to social robotics.

Specialisations:

  • Adaptive technology for health and inclusion聽
  • Creative and cultural sector innovations聽
  • Human-technology interactions and social robotics