Currently the Lab is developing artwork to represent core values at the hospital. After an afternoon workshop, two iterations were selected to be further developed and presented back to the hospital by one of the Lab graphic designers. Through projects like these, we are learning how design might contribute to the hospital in symbolic ways as well as through practical means.
Stay tuned for how this project develops in the coming months...
Recently, a clinician from Pharmacy at Auckland DHB approached the design lab with a pressing issue around sealing anaesthetic bottles. Current practise stores the bottles with a hose attachment to identify them as 'in use.' However the bottles drip if they are moved around.
Using rapid prototyping, a design was developed to seal the bottles quickly and easily, and exemplifies the strength of rapid prototyping low volumes. The design is currently being refined before a small batch of caps are printed for use.
The summer studentship at the DHW lab will be wrapping up in the next few weeks. As mentioned in previous posts, way finding has been a major focus of the work and is a significant component of both patient visitor and staff experience of the hospital. Take a look here at some of the students' process work and stay tuned for their up coming final presentations.
This area is one of two 'main entrances' to the hospital. How should the main entrance to the hospital function and what should it feel like?These sketches explore opening up the level 5 retail area into a more spacious and welcoming environment. Currently this entrance to the hospital feels more like a corridor.
Off the back of the Journey map, there is an opportunity to further explore way finding within the department. In each room for example, more detail around where the patient is and what they can expect could be displayed on the walls, linking back to the overarching journey map.
A few weeks ago, we had the journey map installed in the AED waiting room. It is exciting to see artifacts from the lab make their way into the hospital environment, and it's a sign of good things to come.
