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Designers shape our world by creating products, environments, services and experiences that address a wide range of global challenges.

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Bachelor of Design

Regenerative-focused learning that creates positive impact

Build a design career focused on ecological and social regeneration for a sustainable future.

Community-centred projects with real clients

Work directly with communities and stakeholders.

Master systems-level thinking for meaningful change

Learn how design choices shape social, environmental, and economic systems.

Design the future, today

Design shapes everything around us, from the products we use to the systems that sustain our world. The Bachelor of Design empowers you to create solutions that improve life for people and the planet. You’ll explore how creativity, technology, and sustainability come together to drive positive change across industries.

Through hands-on studios, you’ll experiment with materials, collaborate with communities, and apply systems thinking to real challenges such as climate adaptation, health, and social innovation. Whether you’re designing better experiences, services, or environments, you’ll graduate ready to shape a regenerative future.

Study options in this degree

A major is an area of focus in your degree. During your studies, you’ll study the Design Practices major, where you will develop strong technical and creative design skills while exploring how design can drive positive change.

You can also use your elective space to add a second major from a different area of study, such as Sustainability, to deepen your expertise and customise your learning experience. This flexibility allows you to shape your degree around your passions and career goals.

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Add sustainability to your degree

As part of our commitment to sustainability, we have created a complementary, optional major available across most of our flexible bachelor's degrees.

In the major, explore interdisciplinary knowledge and skills that underpin the development of sustainable societies and solutions. Informed by international and local research, practice, and theory, this major allows you to develop specialist expertise across the physical and social sciences and humanities, emphasising student-led and problem-based learning.

It provides the frameworks for developing sustainability-oriented solutions in a range of fields and is relevant to a wide range of careers.

Combined study options

Choosing a double degree allows you to deepen your knowledge within two separate study areas. This means you can pursue your career and follow your passion at the same time. And when you graduate, you’ll have a set of skills that will really set you apart.

The Bachelor of Design can be combined with a number of other degrees. Visit the Double Degrees page to learn more.

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Career opportunities

Design careers are expanding across industries as organisations increasingly rely on creative problem-solving to address social, environmental, and technological challenges. Graduates of the Bachelor of Design are equipped for roles that combine creativity with impact, from community engagement and sustainability to emerging design technologies.

  • Co-design and community practice
    Work with government, non-profits, and local organisations to co-create solutions that respond to community needs and deliver meaningful social outcomes.
  • Design strategy and innovation
    Use research, systems thinking, and empathy to develop strategies that guide innovation in business, policy, and sustainability. Design strategists play key roles in shaping services, experiences, and organisational transformation.
  • Health, social, and environmental design
    Apply design thinking to health services, wellbeing initiatives, and regenerative systems. Graduates contribute to improving healthcare experiences, developing sustainable materials, and addressing global challenges such as climate adaptation.
  • Interaction and experience design
    Combine creativity and technology to design meaningful digital and physical interactions. This includes user experience (UX), interface, and service design roles that shape how people connect with products and systems.
  • Spatial and event design
    Blend spatial, communication, and experiential design to craft engaging environments, exhibitions, and festivals that bring people together and tell compelling stories.
  • Systems and futures design
    Design for long-term change by mapping complex systems and identifying opportunities for transformation. Systems designers work across sustainability, business, and policy to create more resilient, efficient, and equitable operations.

Here are some of the careers projected to grow in the coming years^.

50%

UI/UX experience designers

Projected increase by 2030

25%

Strategic advisors

Projected increase by 2030

35%

Sustainability specialists

Projected increase by 2030

^ World Economic Forum - Future of Jobs Report 2025.

Design with purpose

Use your creativity to make a real difference

Beyond making things look good, you will learn to make things work better for people and the planet.

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Double degrees

Deepen your knowledge within two study areas or pursue your career and follow your passion at the same time. And when you graduate, you’ll have a set of skills that will really set you apart.

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Leadership and volunteering

Get involved in leadership and volunteering opportunities to develop your leadership skills, make unique connections and help others.

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Catalyst program

Combine your STEM degree with overseas trips, summer research programs, special events, and up to $14,500 in scholarships. Our Catalyst Program offers domestic high achieving school leavers all this, and more.

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