Sharing the passion for doing
Swinburne Design Factory Melbourne (DFM) is an innovation lab, bringing your out-of-the-box ideas closer to fruition.
Working at the forefront of innovation with an interdisciplinary team of students, researchers, and industry experts, DFM creates the conditions for innovation to advance your projects and upskill your people.
-
Fresh thinking, fresh skills: how Michele McCahon became a design thinking expert
Michele McCahon is a consultant with a difference: a powerful toolkit of design thinking capabilities, honed through training with Design Factory Melbourne.
-
Inclusive Design and Assistive Technology Reimagined
Affordable technology solutions for people living with disability.
-
Metaflora
A Swinburne Design Factory Melbourne student team developed an innovative, data-backed plan to eradicate hospital food waste by 2030
-
Wheebo
Swinburne Design Factory Melbourne students co-developed a new, fun, water-based experience: an omni-directional, jet-powered platform.
-
Stawell Underground
Swinburne Design Factory Melbourne students designed concepts for an immersive new visitor centre experience for Stawell Underground Physics Laboratory.
-
Farmsense
Swinburne Design Factory Melbourne students created an integrated technological concept providing localised weather data to remote farming communities.
-
Carelink
-
Money & Me
Swinburne Design Factory Melbourne students collaborated with TOM:Melbourne and Untapped Group to improve banking accessibility for neurodiverse people.
-
The XS-310
A lightweight manoeuvrable airtube sprayer for the French viniculture industry.
Subscribe to our events and updates
Have any questions?
Get in touch with us to see how we can help with your innovation efforts.
Connect with Swinburne
We respectfully acknowledge the Wurundjeri People, and their Elders past and present, who are the Traditional Owners of the land on which Swinburne's Australian campuses are located in Melbourne's east and outer-east. Full Indigenous Matters Policy