Designing 'with' not 'for': the social movement of co-design
School of Design Innovation alumni Kelly Ann McKercher (they/them) has forged a varied career that spans design, teaching, and public health.
2020 News
Read past news stories from the Wellington Faculty of Architecture and Design Innovation's 2020 news archive.
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Indigenous designs help Wellington celebrate Matariki 2020
Wellington’s 2020 Matariki celebrations looked uncertain thanks to the COVID-19 lockdown, however since moving out of level 4 we’ve seen a variety of events, celebrations, and installations across the city to celebrate—several of which are thanks to David Hakaraia, Lecturer at the School of Design Innovation.
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Industry outreach supports breast cancer patients
Industry engagement by Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington academics has helped put together a VR experience that could help patients with advanced breast cancer.
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School of Design Innovation launches programme to nurture and celebrate Future Designers
Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington’s School of Design Innovation have launched their second Future Designers Challenge for high schoolers. This time they’re asking students to design their own looping animation, using whatever media they’d like, with prizes of $500 and $250 up for grabs.
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Furniture design goes digital: new exhibition launched
Earlier this year students on the Wellington Faculty of Architecture and Design Innovation’s Furniture Design course were tasked with creating a prototype memorial bench to commemorate the life of NZ architect Sir Ian Athfield, in collaboration with Athfield Architects. The original plan was to build and exhibit their proposed benches, but unfortunately lockdown had other ideas.
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Award-winning research communicates the impact of community gardens
Bliss Graetz, a 4th year Master of Landscape Architecture student at Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, used her Summer Research scholarship to research the impacts of community gardens.
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Summer research success for architecture illustrator
Lauren Hayes, a 5th year Master of Architecture (professional) student at Victoria University of Wellington won Best Visual at this year’s Summer Gold Awards.
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Award-winning research into architectural design of mental health wards
Tim Donaldson, a 5th year Master of Architecture student, won a Summer Gold Award for his project studying acute mental health ward design in New Zealand.
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University researchers create innovative MRI technology
In a collaboration between scientists and designers, Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington researchers have developed new technology to make magnetic resonance imaging machines (MRIs) more comfortable, accessible, and affordable.
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Solving housing crisis will take leadership
Leadership is needed at central and local government levels to help ensure district plans and their administration come to expect more intensive forms of housing in the right areas, writes Morten Gjerde