Monash Art, Design and Architecture (MADA) has opened its annual exhibition, MADA Now 2025, bringing together works from more than 800 graduating students across art, design and architecture at the University’s Caulfield campus.

Among the standout works at the exhibition is Gathering Around the Korsi by Bachelor of Fine Art graduate Niosha Khademideljou – an immersive installation that reimagines artmaking as a shared experience. The installation brings together a korsi (traditional Persian couch), ceramic tiles, Sofre-Ghalamkar textiles, and tar audio works to create a space for participants to reflect and engage in conversation.

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Honours student Justine Walsh presents Listening, Singing in the Half-Light, which intertwines Irish language and folklore with the stories, ecologies, and hydrogeology of Boandik Country (Limestone Coast, South Australia).

FITTED by Bachelor of Industrial Design student Fairuz Jahan is a rehabilitation unit aimed at supporting safe guided movement during knee surgery recovery.

Communication Design student Lucy Corcoran’s FLOJO – recognised as a finalist in the 2025 Victorian Premier Design Awards – is a children’s board game that promotes early and inclusive menstruation education.

In Architecture and Urban Planning and Design, the Inclusive City studio by Qinglan Yang, Yiming Liu, Retno Palupi, Zahrul Basimah and Deynanti Primalaila, reimagines Melbourne’s industrial zones as mixed-use spaces that blend production, services and community life.

Emma Dehghani participated in the studio Tracing Embassy, which responds to the Aboriginal Tent Embassy in Canberra, celebrating its resilience and adaptability.

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“MADA Now celebrates work that is both experimental and engaged, proving that creative leadership has a vital role to play in imagining and shaping more inclusive, healthy, and regenerative futures," says Professor Mel Dodd, Dean of Monash Art, Design and Architecture.

Observing that the exhibition demonstrates the students’ incredible academic journey, Associate Professor Spiros Panigirakis, Head of Department of Fine Art adds, “It's exciting to see the work emerge from the classroom and into the exhibition space where the broader community has an opportunity to engage with the art.”

Images: Monash University

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