With a history of over 30 years, the Industrial Design program at Western Sydney is a foundational course that is indelibly tied to WSU. As a showcase of student work across this period, Widevision is the legacy of generations of Industrial Design cohorts who have demonstrated a broad and inventive range of projects, servicing a range of social, technical and scientific needs. The body of projects this year encompasses this endless creativity, care, and empathy of our students as they engage with microscopic, human, urban and planetary scales.

With the opening of the Advanced Manufacturing Readiness Facility at Bradfield last year, and the impressive new Powerhouse Museum in October, Western Sydney is experiencing a resurgence of interest in industrial design, tied to the emphasis on technology, manufacturing and social and urban renewal. As the tissue linking a number of disciplines, processes and complex systems, our industrial design students express both the range and scope of invention that is reshaping Western Sydney as a centre of innovation, invention and creativity.