Siwei Wong

Product Design Engineering

SIWEI WONG

Hi I'm Siwei! I'm in my final year of Bachelor of Engineering in Product Design. At Swinburne I've worked on many product design and engineering based projects spanning consumer products, manufacturing, plastic and metal components, sustainability and humanitarian/grassroots engineering; including some 2D digital illustration/photography and sound composition work. During this time I participated in the Engineers without Borders Humanitarian Design Summit in Maharashtra, India, and in the Next Innovation Accelerator Program, run by CSIRO, Intersective and Deloitte.

My passion for design is in the creative process: generating and developing innovative solutions for briefs, with a focus on human-centered design, environment and user interaction with the product. At Swinburne this year I have been working on an honours project aimed towards supporting young adult mental health: designing an interactive interior, product that encourages breathing awareness as means of alleviating stress, anxiety and depression symptoms, and employing sensory modalities to create an environment conducive to positive health and well-being. The product concept has been developed with a focus on design for sustainability and manufacture.

3D Skills: Solidworks, Keyshot

Software Skills: Illustrator, Indesign, Photoshop

BEng (Product Design) '20

BMus (Jazz & Improvisation) '19

Honours Project (Product Design)

BBQ Box (Product Design)

Mining Tap Washer - Team Project (Product Design)

Paper Plane (Digital Design)

Sheet Metal Stapler (Manufacturing process)

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.