Jen Loy is a partner of ours from Griffith University. She recently spoke at our designing together symposium on how 3D printing is changing the landscape of healthcare products and services.
Listen to Jen Loy here:
Researcher Profile: Emma McInnes
Emma recently completed her honours degree as part of the Sustainable Transport Project at the Auckland DHB.
Auckland’s roads are reaching capacity, making traffic congestion the cities biggest issue.
Transport problems around the Auckland City Hospital (ACH) are a consequence of Auckland’s auto-dependent car culture. Parking at ACH is a major source of complaint from visitors and staff and this is because there is parking capacity for 4000 cars, yet Auckland’s District Health Board employs nearly 10,000 staff members.
The project is therefore about increasing ACH staff’s alternative transport patronage to provide solutions to the parking and transport problems in the Grafton area.
Here is some of her work for the 'Free Air' campaign, a proposal devised to encourage nurses to walk to work or use public transport in exchange for a free pair of nike airs.
Note that this is currently a conceptual proposal as part of Emma's Postgraduate Research, and not a live campaign:
Designing together: Soundbites
Late last year the DHW Lab held the 'Designing Together' symposium. Check out the soundbites below from our speakers on the day, sharing their insights on how design can be used to change the healthcare environment for the better:
Prescribe Design
These early weeks of 2016 are a great time for reviewing our vision and purpose as a lab. Take a look at this article by Prescribe Design discussing the nuances of Designers working in a hospital close to the people and the opportunities.
"Designers in healthcare are nothing new; what is new is embedding them right on the frontline where, it is hoped, they can have the biggest impact. The health sector is a formidable industry to work in, and one with significant institutional constraints. Designers will have to become adept at navigating these restraining forces if they are to be successful."
Check it out by following the link below:
The Designer Will See You Next - Prescribe Design
2016
Here we are ready tackle another year at the DHW Lab, based in Auckland City Hospital. 2015 was punctuated by some real successes, including recognition at the New Zealand Best design awards.
We are looking forward to the challenges and opportunities in front of us in the new year.
We have 5 summer studentships currently up and running with some graphic and spatial designers, and a couple of our previous full time workers embarking on masters level study. This makes room for some new blood in the coming weeks, so stay tuned! You can follow us here on our blog for project updates and events.
Designing Together Symposium
Thanks to everyone who made our Designing Togther event a real success yesterday. The morning session was inspirational for all that attended, and the lab would like to extend its thanks to all the speakers- and all the participants who helped make this happen.
The presentations were an opportunity for people both inside and outside the lab to share their vision for a hospital design lab- now and out beyond 2020. Stay tuned for the talks that will be published on our website very soon, along side the illustrations that were created during the event:
The second event of the day consisted of a DHW Lab open home. The lab exhibited some of its more recent design projects and both staff and students were available to talk through their work.
