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Design improves the quality of work and life, brings social and economic advantages to industry and community, and is central to the development of fulfilling citizenship and social innovation.

Our students and researchers are part of a sustainability-focused, multidisciplinary school with close connections to the design profession. Our courses explore new digital technologies within well-equipped workshops and studios that offer a unique hands-on university experience.

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Learn from the best, develop your skills in real industry settings and build connections for your future.

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Gain access to our expertise, find next-generation talent or join our thriving alumni community.

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Our people

Our staff collaborate on projects that lead to real-world impact and help shape the future.

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Our research

Design Lab

We provoke, challenge and question the status quo, with our vision and mission to reimagine and redesign the future.

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TextileR: Future Textile Industries

We seek to develop the cultural, technical, business, and social change needed to transform the way we produce and live with textiles.

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More than Human Futures

We are a transdisciplinary research group leading a proactive, creative response to the unfolding planetary ecocide.

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Faculty of Creative Industries, Education and Social Justice

Our researchers collaborate in specialised groups and facilities across disciplines and institutions.

Creative Industries Precinct

The Creative Industries Precinct has been designed to shine a light on the creative process.

The precinct houses purpose-built teaching and learning spaces, including performance spaces, visual art galleries and music studios.

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News and events

19 Dec 2024

QUT researchers address critical media issues at Woodford Folk Festival

Online safety, the future of cinema, and the digital life of children are the timely topics being tackled by academics from the QUT Digital Media Research Centre (DMRC) at the 2024 Woodford Folk Festival.

18 Dec 2024

Magnificent seven: Meet our New Colombo Plan scholars for 2025

Seven QUT students have been awarded prestigious New Colombo Plan Scholarships by the Australian Government to study overseas in 2025 and do internships and language training in their host country.

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