Bachelor of Design in Spatial Systems

The University of Melbourne

Good design has the power to transform and provide lasting solutions that improve our lives. Designers apply creative and open approaches to defining and solving problems, leading to high-quality decisions. This enables businesses and industries to overcome rigid or outdated ways of doing things. Design has applications in the creation and improvement of our cities, buildings, transport networks, furniture, websites, processes, bridges, landscapes and environment. Designers are innovators who enhance the way we live and interact with the world around us. The Bachelor of Design allows you to combine the humanities, sciences and visual and performing arts within a single degree. You can further tailor your skills through breadth study and third-year design specialisations, such as Building Image Modelling (BIM), to expand your core program. You can focus on one or two majors, or complete a major and a minor.This major aims to provide Bachlor of Design students with the foundations required for a career in the spatial information industry. Spatial Systems specialists work in surveying and land administration, mapping, spatial information systems design and use, and digital innovation. The major in Spatial Systems is concerned with the measurement, modelling and management, analysis, and visualization of information about the Earth's physical features and the built environment.

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