What is it?
Designing and redesigning the way our systems and institutions work. Opportunities for experimentation, collaboration and co-design. Build more effective, responsive and resilient systems for public policy, governance and infrastructure.
Aims of Institutional Design
- Optimising webs of institutions, relationships and culture to create an innovative, integrated, urban environment.
- Enabling thinking and problem-solving at the level of ‘integrated systems’ in urban life, such as crime, transport, energy, educational opportunity and neighbourhood planning, in order to frame integrated solutions.
- Purposefully designing institutions and District ‘sub-structure’/’dark matter’ to foster dynamics of collaboration, learning and creativity.
- Building connections that embed urban innovation with Victoria’s broader geographic, economic and social context, including the greater Metropolitan area, and other cities around the world.
Institutional design in MID

Workforce Innovation and Development Institute
The Workforce Innovation and Development Institute at RMIT University partners with the social service sector, government and the higher education and skills system to respond...

Workforce Innovation and Development Institute
The Workforce Innovation and Development Institute at RMIT University partners with the social service sector, government and the higher education and skills system to respond...