WorkFLEX Australia

Design Factory Melbourne

Supporting flexible working solutions.

In partnership with WorkFLEX, a start-up company that offers a range of online courses, consulting and research services, to help newly-remote workers and organisations successfully transition to remote working. Undergraduate students from Design, Business, Entrepreneurship & Innovation backgrounds were challenged by WorkFLEX to explore cost-effective options for customer acquisition to reach a wider audience. Six team concepts include:

A diagnostic test and updated branding which create a more personalised user experience, saving the customer time and allowing WorkFLEX to deliver courses in an effective and engaging manner. Team Blue Dots: Danielle Wolff, Jahria Langford, Liam Gruber, Tatt Siang Khaw, Valeri Susantijo.

The offering of value packages to medium or large businesses which contain tailored courses, one-on-one consulting and access to a network of other like-minded businesses. Team Gotham Squad: Steven Lazenkas, Rupa Samanta, Nadine Godlieb, Lula Tiver-Smith & Mork Oungchhilvong.

The offering of a new WorkFLEX product, a website toolkit application, which equips customers with a range of resources to improve their working from home practices. Team Ironmen: Ida Bagus Alit Anggira Hartawan, Poramet Nuntipark, Kaleb Watkins & Yong Ming Teoh.

A special online consulting program which is catered to physically operating businesses (gyms, mechanics etc.), to allow these businesses to receive more tailored advice for implementing flexible working practices. Team Alternatives: Joe Schuurmans-Young, Samantha Cassar, Jakob Bulte & Ignacio Pino-Cristofannini.

A new online learning platform designed with user feedback in mind to ensure the best learning experience. The A Team: Sebastian Walker Staalkjaer, Daniel Volpe, Sharifah Zhairah Syed-Charles & Jonathan Lee.

The inclusion of keynote presentations from industry experts, product options depending on business size, and a WorkFLEX care package which provides tangible objects to aid in the transition to flexible working. Team Undergrads: Cooper Fennelle, Jarrad Mezzadra, Roxy Sefton, Hussein Seifeddine & Ben White.

Industry Partner: WorkFLEX.

Team: The A Team

Team: Blue Dots

Team: Ironmen

Team: Team Alternatives

Acknowledgement of Country

The School of Design and Architecture respectfully acknowledges the Wurundjeri peoples of the Kulin Nation as the Traditional Owners and knowledge-keepers of the lands, waters and sky that surround us, where we work, learn, create, communicate and make place. We recognise that sovereignty has never been ceded and this always was and will always be Wurundjeri Country. We pay our respects to Elders past, present and to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people who continue to make a better world through design.

We extend our acknowledgement to the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander staff, students, alumni, real-life clients, and knowledge keepers, who have contributed to our own education diversity and growth. We will continue to ensure that staff and students respectfully honour ancestral connection to Country and Place in everything that they do.

We are dedicated to the notion of design to make a better world and we acknowledge that making tools, shaping place, sharing stories, making meaning, wayfinding and collaborating have long been and continue to be both central and integral to First Peoples' cultures. We recognize that Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples’ cultural contributions have continued relevance to design practice and commit to: reconciling ancestries of design and contemporary practice as well as pursuing culturally and professionally appropriate ways to engage with a diverse population of colleagues, industries and clients. In a time of treaty-making and voice we understand that there are overlaps between caring for Country and the sustainable production of goods, services, experiences, products and buildings.

Guided by the principles of respect, reconciliation, and reciprocity we undertake to indigenising and decolonising design practice by dismantling colonial structures and challenging biases that have marginalised Indigenous voices and design.

As students of SoDA you will be given opportunities to both engage with and educate yourself in Indigenous creative practices and cultural protocols through a lens of inclusivity, diversity, respect, mutual understanding, inter-cultural dialogue in all aspects of design practice. Indigenous people have been telling stories, making tools, and connecting to Country through visual media, placemaking and place marking for more than 60,000 years and these practices are part of an ongoing, evolving and live tradition.