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Michael Trudgeon has thirty years of industry experience, as the founding Design Director at Crowd Productions, in industrial design, commercial architecture and communication design. As part of the creative arts and design revolution in Melbourne in the 1980s, Crowd Productions published a bi-monthly magazine of emerging local fashion design, music, food, writing and architecture. Subsequent completed projects by the Crowd Productions design studio range from national retail roll-outs, cinema complexes and major exhibition installations to commercial products. He has focused on the co-ordination of cross-disciplinary research, working with emerging technology, pioneering spatial prototyping processes for retail and commercial projects.

He is a Professor of Design at the RMIT School and Design, where he has taught since 1983. From 2010 he has been the Deputy Director of the Victorian Eco Innovation Lab, a sustainability research centre established at the Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning at the University of Melbourne, helping to establish an international open innovation network of researchers, academic and professional designers and governments, to explore the role of sustainable production systems. He is currently the coordinator of Major Projects in the Master of Design Innovation and Technology program at the School of Design at RMIT.