RMIT Landscape Architecture is a catalyst for change, tackling the urgent environmental, social, and spatial challenges of our time. Beyond climate change, we address emerging global urgencies through design.
We see our place in the university as a critical space for experimentation, advocacy, and capacity building. Our programs provide students with the space, resources and agency to test ideas and develop innovative solutions that shape just and resilient futures.
Collaboration drives our impact. We work across disciplines and scales, partnering with academic institutions, government bodies, and industry leaders—locally, nationally, and internationally—to expand the role of landscape architecture.
Grounded in place, we recognize our responsibility in engaging with our diverse landscapes, communities, and histories. Through design-led research and practice, we equip students to work critically and creatively in uncertain, complex contexts, positioning landscape architecture as a transformative force for environmental and social equity.
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The Bachelor of Landscape Architectural Design is about envisioning, investigating and proposing better ways of living in our complex and rapidly changing environments.
Through design, students learn how the discipline of landscape architecture interacts with natural ecosystems and built environments as well as cultural and social frameworks.
Curriculum is designed around thinking conceptually; developing ideas from careful observation and modelling those ideas to develop and test design proposals in response.
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The RMIT Master of Landscape Architecture program provides the highest level of qualification for aspiring landscape architects, equipping students with the skills to become leaders and innovators in landscape architectural practice.
The program engages with landscape architecture as a practice that can respond to the challenges of a complex, rapidly changing world through innovative design, and critically explores landscape as a medium that exists at all scales, from micro to macro, from political to infrastructural, from social to economic.
The program seeks to extend landscape architectural practice, enhance the creation and publication of landscape architectural knowledge, and increase the discipline’s relevance through partnering with community, industry, and government.
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The Master of Disaster, Design and Development (MoDDD) sits within the world-leading prestigious school of Architecture and Urban Design at RMIT, and is a cross disciplinary degree that will enable you to work locally and internationally in the disaster, design and development sector.
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We contend that research is conducted through designing and that the process of designing, as a means of increasing knowledge, parallels research in other areas in fascinating ways.
The PhD is the exploration of new territories of design research, contributions to the knowledge base of the discipline, and steps toward the redefinition of aspects of design. The program also develops advanced technical research skills to prepare you for a career in industry, academia and other settings in which systematic and critical analytical skills are required.
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The Practice Research Symposium (PRS) at RMIT University lies at the heart of a long-standing program of research into what designers and artists actually do when they conceive and develop new and innovative approaches to creative practice. The research candidature becomes a process through which creative practitioners develop their research capability, becoming fully fledged creative practice researchers.
Yulendj Weelam Design Research Lab
Exploring how academics, Indigenous knowledge holders and design practitioners can work together to ensure Australia’s built environment respectfully celebrates, engages with and supports our First Nations people and culture.
‘Yulendj Weelam’ draws its name from Naarm [Melbourne]-based language groups. Yulendj is the Boon Wurrung word for ‘deep knowledge’. Weelam is the Boon Wurrung word for ‘home’. The lab is grounded on the premise that all architecture, landscape architecture and urban design requires a deep knowledge of the unceded land on which it is designed: of home.
