Responsive: Architecture and Industrial Design Exhibition, School of Architecture, Industrial Design and Planning

‘Responsive’ is the 2023 End of Year Exhibition for Architecture and Industrial Design. The Exhibition’s theme reflects core drivers in the exploration of shaping a sustainable, inclusive and socially just future within Architecture and Industrial Design. The curated design work demonstrates the focus of our programs, showcasing a selection of exemplary work from the Bachelor and Master of Architecture degrees and the Bachelor of Industrial Design.

This exhibited work has built on the previous years and extended its scope. Again, the exhibition and catalogue document the current investigation of the Gold Coast and its architecture and industrial design, responding to emerging theoretical and industry drivers. Other researchers have worked in the same context across both architecture and industrial design. To cite the most notable within architecture: Special Issue of Architecture Australia dedicated to Gold Coast Jan-Feb 2018; Goad, P. (1997); Leach, Rickard, Jones, (2015); Bosman, Dedekorkut-Howes, Leach (Eds.) (2016); Leach, (2015); Leach (2018). In the context of opportunities presented within Industrial Design: Novak, et al. (2022); Lupton (2020); Zanella (Ed.) (2022).

The research (Exhibition) critically investigated the potential of architecture and industrial design in shaping a sustainable, climate resilient, human-centric, inclusive and socially just future, and enquired about the ways through which those parameters have shaped and been incorporated in architectural language, design interventions and typologies of the Gold Coast and beyond.