If you missed the 2020 Virtual Clever and Creative Lecture Series presents “A New Agenda for Innovation where Creativity Meets Science & Business” you can find the webinar recording on Deakin Air by following this link. Hosted by DesignMind and the City of Greater Geelong you will hear from internationally renowned design thinkers who will explore the role of …
Image (above): IDC display at the 2018 Hong Kong Business of Design Week (HK BoDW) exhibition. DesignMind is proud to announce the 2020 Bates Smart Award for Architecture in Media – National Award, has been awarded to the International Indigenous Design Charter, created by DesignMind Co-Director, Russell Kennedy and Charter Co-Authors, Meghan Kelly, Jefa Greenaway …
Deakin University’s MInD (Mediated Intelligence in Design) Lab has won a gold award in the 2020 Melbourne Design Awards for their ‘Experiencing (In)tangible Heritage Through eXtended Reality: Western Beach Park, Geelong’ project. The Deakin team of Tuba Kocaturk, Sofija Kaljevic, Rui Wang, Chun Wang and Jarrod Argent worked with the City of Greater Geelong and …
DesignMind’s Professor Tuba Kocaturk took centre stage at the virtual Milan Design Week event, Design, Society and Distance Learning: What Will Survive to What? The panel discussion hosted by the European Institute of Design (IED) discussed Distance Learning in Design Schools. The event was a multi-disciplinary debate that reflected on scenarios, opportunities and concerns about …
MInD Lab and Imagine Intelligent Materials have established a research collaboration into how Ambient Intelligence can be generated using Imagine’s graphene-enabled Smart Surface technology in buildings. The project aims to develop scalable commercial application frameworks of the technology in buildings; specifically in aged-care sector, but also in support of building operations management. The project is …
Deakin’s Chair in Architecture, Professor James Doerfler, is delighted to announce Prefab21 a social housing innovative between Deakin, Samaritan House and Geelong-based manufacturer FormFlow has received funding from the State Government of $500 000 to proceed with the development of a Microvillage. The Microvillage will include seven single small dwelling units to provide accommodation to …
Deakin researchers have collaborated with Anaesthetists from the Alfred Hospital and the Baker Institute to address the lack of ventilators available for seriously ill COVID-19 patients. The ventilator splitter and Deakin University collaboration came about through Dr Jennifer Hall, who’s an anaesthetist at the Alfred Hospital. Ms Hall had been observing what’s been happening in …
This technology could help us save energy, live independently, and pinpoint our whereabouts in times of crisis. Imagine walking into a room, and the automatic lights turn on immediately. There’s no need to do that awkward hand wave to activate them, and no fumbling for the light switch. How did they know you were coming? The floor told them. Or, …
An innovative prefabricated unit designed to meet the social housing crisis accommodation needs has been unveiled in Geelong. The project which has been underway for some time and was due for public reveal during Geelong Design Week, however with COVID-19 seeing an end to public presentations, the public unveiling was cancelled. So it was behind closed …
Tuba Kocaturk, Professor of Integral Design at Deakin University, shares her insights and expertise on designing the smart cities of the future and the role of technology in two new videos on Australia’s Science Channel. Professor Kocaturk is a member of Deakin’s School of Architecture and Built Environment and is also the founding Director of the …
The Vital Signs Alternative Futures team attended the Victorian Premier’s Design Awards ceremony on 22 November to support A+B’s students Julie Pham, Tom Barker, Blake Sipek, Jarrod Argent and Jack Hirini for their amazing visions of Geelong 2050 and 2100. We were all in admiration that they were included in the very high calibre of design thinking …
DesignMind Co-directors Professor Tuba Kocaturk and Dr Russell Kennedy discussed the City of Greater Geelong’s commitment to design in an article featured in Distruptr, Deakin’s new research-centred communications platform …… The City of Greater Geelong was designated a UNESCO City of Design in 2017 and you don’t need to look too far into Geelong’s past …
The rich heritage of Geelong’s Western Beach will be brought to life through eXtended Reality (XR) when Deakin University researchers and the City of Greater Geelong create a multimedia storytelling experience for the newly revitalised Western Beach Boat Yards. Since the establishment of Geelong in the 1800s, the Western Beach Boat Yards site has been …
Deakin DesignMind and the City of Greater Geelong invite you to the second lecture in the Clever and Creative Lecture Series for 2019: Good Health by Design Transdisciplinary design culture has the potential to improve outcomes across the globe, optimising responses to growing health challenges such as ageing populations, inactivity and poor diets. At this …
Geelong’s design-driven future will be showcased at Geelong Design Week 2020, presented by Geelong UNESCO City of Design. Organisations, community groups, schools and individuals in the Geelong region are invited to participate and host their own exhibition, tour, workshop, or event that explores new ideas, challenges what is possible and showcases our achievements in design …