Design Futures: Architecture, Landscape and Interiors

Are you a Year 11 high school student curious about a future in architecture, interior architecture, or landscape architecture? Join us for "Design Futures", a one-day experience at the University of Technology Sydney designed just for you! Through a series of interactive, hands-on workshops led by passionate educators and professional architects, you'll get a taste of what it's like to study and practice architecture. Whether you're already set on pursuing design or just starting to explore your options, this is your chance to step inside the studio, get creative, and ask all your burning questions about pathways into university and the world of architecture.

📍 Location:
University of Technology Sydney – Building 6, Level 5
702 Harris St, Ultimo NSW 2007

🎟️ Tickets:
It's free to register!

👥 Audience:
Open to Year 11 high school students interested in studying architecture, interior architecture or landscape architecture

The Workshops

Discover Architecture

Curious about what architects do? In this hands-on workshop, you’ll get a chance to design and build models, explore ideas, and think about how spaces are shaped. You’ll work on your own and with others to solve problems and see the world in a new way. Come along and see what designing the future looks like!

Interior Architecture

Interior Architecture explores the dynamic relationship between people and the spaces they inhabit. As future designers, you're likely already immersed in a flood of interior imagery—scrolling, saving, and studying spaces from all over the world.

This workshop invites you to shift from simply consuming images to actively creating with them. Through a tactile and exploratory process—tracing, trimming, taping, tearing—you’ll engage with images, materials, and textures as tools for generating spatial ideas. By working in this way, you'll uncover how Interior Architecture is not just about aesthetics, but about using visual and material experimentation to spark new ways of thinking about space

Landscape Architecture

Working at the interface of natural and social systems in urban contexts, landscape architecture benefit human wellbeing, biodiversity and climate adaption. Increasingly, landscape architects are using new digital tools to document and design landscapes. In this workshop you’ll gain an understanding of how designed landscape are conceived, developed and constructed using photogrammetry. With the aid of this digital tool, designers can produce an accurate 3d model of the world around them. Participants will leave the workshop with a virtual model than can later be 3d printed at a public library or back at their school.

Your Workshop Leaders

Dr. Endriana Audisho Lecturer and Public Programs Director at UTS Architecture  Endriana’s teaching and research centre on postcolonial and decolonial approaches to architectural practice and education. She is currently leading a public program under the theme Solidarity, promoting transformative and collaborative frameworks for a more just architectural future.
Dr. Rafael Luna Zelaya Co-founder of PRAUD, Senior Lecturer at UTS, and Director of the Infra-Architecture Lab With extensive international experience, Rafael brings a global perspective to architectural design and urbanism. His work has been showcased at MoMA, Venice Biennale, and Seoul Biennale, and his research explores how architectural typologies can inform more adaptable urban models.
Rhys Williams Program Director for Landscape Architecture at UTS Rhys is passionate about landscape architecture and its potential to reshape the places we call home. His own interests centre on processes of change in designed landscapes, and the use of photography and social media to advocate for the value of well-designed urban landscapes
Leisa Tough Lecturer in Interior Architecture at UTS Leisa is a practicing architect with over 15 years of experience in projects ranging from large-scale civic works to intimate residential designs. Her research investigates interior detailing as a form of repair and regeneration, engaging deeply with materials, craft, and the existing built fabric. She is the principal of her own independent architecture studio.
Luke Tipene Academic in Interior Architecture, UTS Luke’s work explores the intersections of drawing, theory, and spatial practice, focusing on how architectural representation generates new knowledge. His writings appear in leading journals like Fabrications and The Journal of Architecture. Luke also curates, draws, and edits as Executive Editor of Idea Journal.