Active learning and researching the new dynamics, roles and processes for design professional from conceptualisation to design, development and production with up an coming cyber-phisical and intelligent technologies

New design pedagogy for a post-industrial society with a combination of design, sustainability, affordability and investment. The design artifact and their built and human environment are no longer the same as in the Industrial Age. Design for styling is no longer enough. We need a life-centred design approach capable to run design ethnography, create and co-create tangible and intangible experiences for end-users. All these with an understanding that our present and future are impacted by climate change, digital transformation, and new geopolitical powerplays. We need to transition to a sustainable future that requires change of behaviour, tradiions and rituals.

Manifesto for innovation in research and design education. New technologies are changing our teamwork dynamics, tools of trade and market. Today's post-industrial era contests old divisions of power and development after globalisation and technology diffusion. Traditionally a measure to differentiate 'haves from the have-nots", technology will not be effective until it is widely accessible.

Following on previous funding (ARC Discovery), I finished the setting up of the XR and Visualisation Lab for our School of Engineering, Design and Built Environment in 2022. The lab intends to imagine, visualise and test new experiences to redefine design, housing, human and machine interactions, and urban futures. As per examples shown, the semi-immersive Hyve3D allows to sketch, design and navigate new environments. Our Antilatency sensors and infrared flooring allow to map and track participants positions, movements and interactions with either digital and,or physical objects and environments

Joint project with leading Universities of Cincinnati USA and Montreal Canada. The research intends to create a better future by solving problems of today. It will be conducted as a user-community centred research to frame meaningful insights and envision the future of our cities, their inhabitants and the transport and artifacts they will interact with.

A selection of discoveries after the authors performed research, made presentations and mediated workshops when face-to-face collaborations and travel were impossible because of the Covid-19 epidemic restrictions. Findings add to work intending to build a modern taxonomy for design sketching and visual knowledge while accounting for immersive virtual collaboration and distributed workflows from sketching to 3D CAD and 3D prin.

Alinging with Environmental Health Australia , GEESE platform and our research are to enhance the practice of environmental health to provide a healthy, safe and attractive natural and social environment for all communities. GEESE offers opportunities to learn about and be part of fun, educational initiatives to promote communities and environmental health and wellbeing.

These are examples from the subject ENGR1041 Designing for User Experience (UX). It focuses on learning UX with new XR and VR technology. Students design and develop their own low-cost VR equpment and prove the success of their work with design ethnography user observations and mappings, and a final MVP working prototype used to play VR games. UX is a newer form of desing that includes industrial design. As per Norman (2000), "I invented UX because human interface and usability were too narrow. I wanted to cover all aspects of the person's experience with a system, including industrial design, graphics, the inerface, the physical interaction and the manual".

Longitudinal research project in the last design studio for the degree. It was based on active learning, critical pedagogy and making, industry parntership pedagogy and WIL. Academics and students in five countries (Australia, Canada, Chile, Germany, Netherlands) worked as equals with a commercial design firm setup. Participants formed globally distributed teams of students, academics, industry and government experts. Co-design resulted in MVP working prototypes ready for manufacturing in China in one semester. Several students received direct offers for commercialisation of their designs. Government wise, the project was used to promote AUSTRADE and Austraian International Education (AIE) in their South America Rallies (2006-07). WSU conferred for it an Excellence for Learning and Teaching Citation in 2012.

Award winning Honours project by Mr. Jordan Rohr. With the rate of overweight and obesity among Australians continually on the rise, questions must be asked of the traditional methods used to solve the problem which have so far proven ineffective. Government reports place the focus on ‘active transport’ such as walking, cycling and the use of public transport, however a lot of work needs to be done to change the habits and behaviours of the population in this area.The Hummingbird is a product-system for urban environments that aims to engage, encourage and incentivise individuals to become more physically active to impact on the growing health problem facing Australia through progressive, rather than immediate habit changes. .

Supervision of ID Honours students projects alongside work with Prof Mark Armstrong (Director Blue Sky Creative Group, Adjunct Professor at Monash University), and University of Technology (UTS). The new product development of smart child restrains for inside car safety assisted in the setting up of a new business vision for the company. Infasecure established its first design department, employed our graduates, and implemented a business strategy that helped their business grow to own three factories in China and capture more than 20% of the global market.

Design studio work for subject ENGR300: Innovation trhough Systems Thinking. The subject investigated the complex challenge of rethinking housing for a growing population who will not be able to afford their own home in Australia (millenials, genz, over-50, single women, homeless) and in developing nations because of emergency and resilience. Students designed after carrying out design enquiry and design ethnography with people who are or have experienced that kind of need.

A project-based learning subject that introduced students to learning how to negotiate physical and digital components to form smart artifacts. That relation is represented with the development of an interactive robot and its digital mirror counterpart as its avatar. The subject also assisted in the preparation of a professional portfolio showpiece for job applications in the industry. Learning by experimentation, the subject linked traditional skillsets including software and 3D printing with new forms of design, from engineering narratives to digital creativity within augmented and virtual environments.

Usability testing of game operation, human-computer interaction and water control. For in depth read on the persuasive design to change habits at home go to Research/Social Design to Influence Change

The studio focused on people, places and systems design to resolve the challenge of the new digital-physical built environments we llive in. The subject built expertise on human environments, responsible design, human-centred design, and technology development, such as interaction and tangible design through applied design research, contextual inquiry, protototyping and testing to working proof of concept level. The subject was delivered with an industry partnership pedagogy with experts from different areas of design and manufacturing. Notably among them, Mr. Andrew Ford, National Director for Research and Innovations at SEBEL Furniture.

As per modern design benchmark, students design needs to be proven right beyond sketching and visualisation, with practical usability and material testing. Heuristics are practical methods that are not guaranteed to be optimal, or perfect but are sufficient to reach short-term goals and approximation to a final working proof of concept prototype.

Design-based research to improve physical and social development of chldren between between the ages of 3 - 5 with tangible interactive sport based play. The project included the design, evaluation and implementation of an itneractive sport toy, GiggleBat, that merges benefits of co-design, HCI and user-centred design assisted with Arduino sensors and 3D printing..

A framework for current use and future potential for drawing to present, represent, simulate and visualise the world within the education, industry, practice and research landscapes.

This century, the built environment, and specifically the learning space, have expanded from physical to digital and virtual envrionments, from non to fully immersive experiences. The research includes students as both designers and end-users. It seeks a value proposition that redefines design for the built environment and the objects within it. Today, digital materialities are increasingly taking over operations that were physical before, there is a new kind of intellectual mass manufacturing as a process of knowledge construction instead of hardware products for consumption only, and new rituals that affect social change and interaction.

International Honours Supervisor of Ms. Aaleen Parulekar from Symbiosis Institute of Design (SID), Pune, India. I am currently her Main Supervisor in her MRes and a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) is about to be signed between SID and WSU to develop joint academic and students exchanges, joint research projects, and potentially a MDesign delivered from Australia. Ms. Parulekar's candidature follows up on her winning IIT Mumbay-D'Source Corona Design Challenge. She envisions to continue her reseearch with her PhD in WSU. Her awarded project was about rapid deployment of temporary housing shelters for victims of post natural disasters (e.g., Covid-19 housing and rehabilitation rooms, monsoons and floods). She focused on the critical period of 3 to 10 months after disaster when normally there is no organised assistance. Commonly, victims of disaster keep living in temporary shelters for a long time after suffering from natural and economic disasters.

The study focuses on water conservation as scarce premium commodity in Australia. Literature review finding showed water sustainability requires more than efficient planning and regulation. Behavioral change through persuasion is pivotal. Researchers found that change happens preferably through daily familiar practice rather than regulatory or financial penalty, as with water bills. One such instance is the daily ritual of bathing where parents/guardians and children connect with each other through a task and also allows for a child to increase experiential learning through play. Project findings led to a working minimum value product (MVP) and system solution closer to deployment with a subgroup of possible customers or early adopters.

Conference Best Paper Award. A case study on design thinking for a new ID Honours program. Multi-disciplinary student projects allowed to promote new forms of ID as IxD, HCI and UX. A renewed culture and environment emphasized seeking functionality and fidelity, user and society value over beauty and form factors alone. The pedagogical approach sought to determine the new industrial products reality with an increasing contribution by design thinking and its associated methodologies that are currently advancing typical Industrial Design. The authors proposed a number of reflections as recommendations, which may be useful for educational institutions contemplating similar curriculum makeovers to their design degrees.

Award winning Honours project by Mr. Omar Alrawi. E-Trix is folding e-bike vehicle able to be manufactured in small runs to ensure a unique user experience for people who want to be a part of a cleaner and greener city. Thanks to its smart belt-drive system, E-Trix combines high functionality, low cost and sustainable recycled materials that are rotational formed into components with metal detailings that minimize extra parts, bolts and screws.

Quick A3 three hours one sitting watercolour portrait.

Live A5 three minutes sketch of a child in the street.

Complete design process from ideation to design, managemment, development and production. Exhibition and set design included the fabrication of metal and plastic structures, digital media production, installation, graphic design and speech writing.

Supervision of Honours project by Mr Ben Scotman. Vital Cordless is a power drill for the female market with self charging batter system for longer use

Supervision of Honours project by Mr Bobby Lowe for the City of Sydney. Multitasking car design concept starting from current Tuk-Tuks in Asia. From tours around the city to a mini delivery truck that can deal with the small streets in the CBD and its conversion to a forklift to drive in and stock goods in the fresh market

I frequently demonstrate and teach XR, AR, MR and VR tools to my students and colleagues in Australia and abroad.

Sunny Corner Toy Library is a not-for-profit organisation established in the suburb of Auburn, Sydney, since 1983. It aims to provide the children of the community and their families with an ever-changing variety of educational and fun toys to enhance their cognitive, social, emotioinal and phhysical development in the important first six years of their lives.

Live A2 three seconds sketch of a reclined model.