Lucien Housego

I’m a Product Design Engineering student at Swinburne University, motivated by the challenge of turning ideas into practical, human-centered solutions. What drives me is the balance between engineering precision and creative design to find ways to make products that are both technically sound and intuitive to use. I’m curious by nature and thrive on projects that push me to explore new technologies, test materials, and learn through prototyping. I enjoy the full process, from early sketches to production-ready outcomes, making sure each step is guided by research, usability, and sustainability. For me, design is about more than function, it’s about creating experiences that improve everyday life.

Spark

This project presents a luxury still and sparkling water mixer tap designed for premium hospitality venues such as Music Room, Melbourne. Crafted from brushed bronze and influenced by hi-fi design and minimalist architecture, the tap combines refined aesthetics with engineered functionality. The tap incorporates a mechanism that allows the handle to lift independently of the head, with serviceable components engineered for investment casting and optimised for long-term durability.

True Feel

This project reimagines a glue gun for DIY users. True Feel is a durable, intuitive tool with balanced design, soft-grip comfort, and clear safety cues. The True Feel glue gun delivers a refined, user-centered design that balances ergonomic comfort, intuitive safety features, and sustainable material choices, tailored for experienced DIY users.

Tabstack

Tabstack is a modular, stackable pill organiser designed for simplicity, portability, and personalisation. Each disc stores a day’s medication and rotates to reveal clearly divided compartments for scheduled doses. The design prioritises intuitive use for individuals with cognitive challenges, while offering customisable covers and trays, easy assembly, and a sleek, modern aesthetic. Iterative prototyping refined size, depth, and functionality, resulting in a practical, travel-friendly solution adaptable to diverse user needs.

Solmate

This project delivers a rugged, solar-powered outdoor light designed for camping and hiking. The product features a waterproof, impact-resistant housing with a polycarbonate shield, silicone over-moulded grip, and integrated carabiner cut-out for easy attachment. It uses a high-efficiency solar panel, LED optics with a reflective chamber for maximum brightness, and a rechargeable battery for sustainable energy use. Iterative prototyping refined durability, assembly, and usability, resulting in a compact, reliable lighting solution for outdoor enthusiasts.

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.