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MICHAEL TRUDGEON

Michael Trudgeon is the design director and a co founder of Crowd Productions. Crowd Productions is a trans-disciplinary design practice, founded in 1983, to research and explore the potential of new design ideas and new technologies. Crowd Productions has a small core team in Melbourne and in London. Our structure is based on the film-production house model. Crowd's projects are delivered through collaboration with an extended network of designers, researchers, makers, custom fabricators and specialists, on a project by project basis.

Crowd's recent projects have focused on creating digitally enhanced environments for the cinema industry and financial services, customer and user-experience centred research and prototyping methodologies and ways of implementing modular commercial architectural roll-outs. These include flagship cinema complexes for Hoyts at Melbourne Central and Blacktown in Sydney, digital cinema capsules for ACMI in Melbourne, a conversation-and-customer-focused retail banking design for roll out for the National Australia Bank and a new streamlined retail 'customer interface' for the RTA at Blacktown. Other projects have included communication strategies and exhibition projects for the International Institute for Industrial and Environmental Economics in Lund, Sweden at the 2000 World Expo in Frankfurt, exhibition installations for the Museum of Sydney at the Hyde Park Barracks Museum. Including their 2000 Sydney Olympics exhibition.

Michael Trudgeon has taught from 1982 at RMIT University, Monash University. Swinburne and Melbourne University variously in architecture, interior design, industrial and communication design. He has a PhD from RMIT University [School of Architecture and Design], Bachelor's and Master's degrees in architecture from RMIT University and a Diploma of Fine Art from Philip Institute.

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