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.
Recently, two of our Lab staff have taken overseas trips to Europe. We want to wish both Jess and Emily all the best on their trips and we are incredibly grateful for all the hard work they have put in over the past 6 months. Emily has been key to pushing forward design research and user engagement for the food offering at the hospital and the new Oncology building project. Jess has supported work that looks at redesigning public spaces of the hospital, namely the hospital pharmacy and Transition Lounge. Thank you both!
