October Forum Forum - Deep, Digital & Collective: Designing for Human Experience

Deep, Digital & Collective Intelligence: Designing for Human Experience Exploring tools and methods to better connect design with our experience of urban space 🕖 Time: 6:00 to 8:00 pm 📅 When: Monday, 12th of October, 2026 📍 Place: Monash College City Campus, Level 8, Room 803, 750 Collins Street, Docklands Urban design is often shaped by what we can see, measure, and map. But some of the most important qualities of a place are felt - whether a space feels safe, comfortable, welcoming, lively, or simply enjoyable to be in. For our October Forum Forum, Karolina Faulkner from GXN Innovation and Tim Hunt from The Night Office will explore how different tools, technologies, and ways of thinking can more precisely help us understand human experiences and translate them into better design outcomes. This Forum Forum will facilitate a dialogue between two practices working in different ways to explore a shared question: how can we build better intelligence about the way people experience space? Karolina and Tim will unpack a series of everyday ‘felt experiences’, including safety, belonging, comfort, activation, and delight, and explore how these experiences may be understood, observed, and responded to through design. The discussion will also explore how human experiences of places can shift in spatial perception between day and night, and what this means for how we analyse and design our urban environments. Expect a practical and thought provoking conversation about technology-aided sensory urbanism, the tools we use to read our cities, and how a deeper understanding of human experience can inform the places we create. We look forward to having you join us for an evening of ideas, conversation, and a different way of looking at urban design. This venue has been generously provided by our supporters Monash University and is hosted in a recently adapted office building in a former Axa headquarters. Note: Ticket price includes snacks and drinks.