Official Lab Launch

On the 6th of May, the Lab had an official launch event to mark the bringing together of Design and Health at the ADHB. The event was a chance to celebrate how the Lab has developed over the last year into a lively and engaging design space in the heart of Auckland Hospital. The event saw represenatives from both  ADHB and AUT share their support of the venture and recognised the value of placing the experience of patients and families at the heart of design opportunities.

Thank you to all took the time to come and join us at the Launch event - It was a full house with approximately 80 people from the ADHB, AUT and Industry coming to support. We look forward to the road ahead and we hope you come and visit us again soon to check in!

At the Launch a short Film was shown documenting the beginnings of the Lab and its vision for Design in the Hospital.

SUSTAINABLE TRANSPORT SURVEY PRESENTATION

As part of the Sustainable transport and Urban Design Seminar, the lab put together and infographic presentation to illustrate the ADHB Sustainable Transport survey results. Working closely with project managers Ian D'Young and Phil Schulze the presentation aimed to present the data in an engaging and thought provoking fashion, in contrast to conventional spread sheets and graphs. Take a look at a few screen shots below:

See the full presentation here:

STP Survey Presentation

Sustainable Transport and Urban Design Seminar

 

On Wednesday 22nd of April a Sustainable Transport and Urban Design Seminar was held inside Auckland Hospital’s Clinical Education Centre (CEC) in connection with the Design for Health and Wellbeing (DHW) Lab.

The seminar included a presentation by award winning author and urban design expert Charles Montgomery from Vancouver. He gave an outstanding talk about future of city planning and how that affects our health as a community.

The current third year design brief at the AUT product design school has also been dealing with the transport context in relation to Auckland hospital in association with the Design for Health and Wellbeing Lab. The students were asked to develop design interventions to enhance walking, cycling, and public transport use in the area covering Grafton Station, the Auckland Domain and Auckland Hospital, and presented their concepts to representatives from the DHW Lab and Auckland Transport and Charles Montgomery on the day.  A second student brief was also on display during the event from the AUT spatial design School, and explored the connections between a 'front door' to the hospital and the wider community.

Patient Experience Week

Two weeks ago, patient experience week was held at the ADHB to listen to the stories of our patients. The Lab was asked to support this week by:

Developing a brand for the event,

Putting together a 'share it station' in the public space at Auckland hospital,

Interviewing and photographing a series of patients and putting an exhibition together for people to view in the public space.

This project is an example of how the Lab can support existing ADHB initiatives, and work collaboratively to produce an engaging outcome.

Health Hackathon: Solving Self Care

Recently one of the designers at the DHW lab participated in the inaugural health Hackathon. Deinika Elston, worked in an interdisciplinary team including medical professionals, programmers to 'explore and develop technology solutions in response to the problem of self care for long term health issues.' Her team came up with two applications to help educate and support sufferers of rheumatic fever. One of the app's was a game designed for kids to play during their monthly Bicillin injection at school. The other part of the concept encouraged both self and whanau management of rheumatic fever for school levers.

Take a look at some of the screen shots below, and click here for more information about the event:

Public Spaces Overview

This banner is an overview of the public spaces research project that occurred earlier in the year to listen to the voice of patients, families and hospital staff: