Congratulations to the ADHB sustainable transport project team, led by Ian D'Young and Phil Schulze, who recently won an Auckland Transport Commute Award and were also highly commended for the Supreme Award on the night.
See the clip below that outlines the sustainable transport project; designed and animated by the DHW lab.
[vimeo 147668578 w=1920 h=1080]
Guy Collier, studying his PHD with the PCRC (Centre for Person Centred Research) facilitated a workshop with the DHW lab this week.
The session formalised a relationship between the groups which was initiated through projects such as the living well toolkit and PHD research like that of Guy Collier.
The session focused on the practical ways in which we could work together to develop effective design solutions, underpinned by robust health research. In break out groups we proposed practical models for how our disciplines might collaborate in the future.
Thanks very much to Guy for doing a great job of facilitating the session and to the whole PCRC team for coming to join us in the lab.
The Design for Health and Wellbeing Lab invites you to a collaborative symposium showcasing how design has been quietly growing in Auckland City Hospital, and to explore where we see the future value for design in health.
The symposium is open to all Auckland City Hospital Patients, Visitors, ADHB Staff and AUTStaff and Students - to help exchange and develop ideas and to contribute to the future of design in health for Auckland.
Spaces are limited, so please RSVP by Wednesday 2nd Dec 2015 to dhwlab@gmail.com
A big welcome to our new interns, Taewoo, Olivia, Anna, Kolo! We are excited to have them on board for the summer working on graphic design and spatial design briefs at the hospital. If you are interested in an internship experience at the DHW lab, get in touch!
Today we had a visit from Paddy Miller and Anjany Borwankar from the IESE Businees School and Chee-Wei Kwan from Nanyang Business school. The visit to the lab was facilitad by Kerridge and Partners.
Paddy Miller is Professor of Managing People in Organizations at IESE Business School in Barcelona. A globally consulted expert on leadership and corporate culture, he has over 25 years of experience working with large companies, and has worked with senior executives in organizations like Nike, Lufthansa, Henkel, Bayer, L’Oreal, Boeing, Citi and the World Bank, among many others. As a speaker, he has appeared on the World Business Forum, the World Innovation Forum and The Economist’s Talent Management Summit.
Paddy is in New Zealand, hosted by Kerridge Partners. We were lucky to be invited to his Tuesday evening seminar on “The Innovation Architect”.
Paddy with Thomas Wedell-Wedellsborg wrote their new book “Innovation as Usual: How to Help Your People Bring Great Ideas to Life” is coming out on Harvard Business Review Press in March.
The DHW lab is often involved with small spatial design projects, working together with staff and families to find ways of improving their environments.
User engagement in the design process has become a popular trend recent years. At the hospital, we are always seeking ways in which we can efficiently capture insight from people and embed these in the design solutions being proposed.
Taking floor plans and creating isometric images of suggested changes to a space are much quicker and easier for people to engage with than schematic drawings. Although they are high level representations, we have found that stripping a drawing down to this degree of simplicity is more likely to prompt insightful feedback from people.
