Blurring Boundaries: Rethinking Home As A Healthcare Space | A Workshop For Academic Researchers
Presented by Monash Design
DETAILS
Free, booking required
MADA Gallery, Building D, Monash University Caulfield Campus
900 Dandenong Road, Caulfield East VIC, Australia
What does the increasing medicalisation of the home mean for healthcare systems, policy, and everyday life? This workshop invites researchers from design, health, social sciences, and related fields to critically examine the implications of shifting care contexts. Through collaborative mapping and speculative inquiry, the workshop will explore emerging research questions, potential methodologies, and interdisciplinary approaches. Insights generated in this session will contribute to the broader discourse of the exhibition and beyond.
This design workshop is free, but registrations are essential.
Participants
Troy McGee
Troy is equal parts designer, researcher and educator. He is currently the Director of the Monash Research Experimentation & Discovery (RED) program, and Lecturer at Monash University.
Through his research with the Design Health Collab, Troy conducts collaborative and interdisciplinary research at the intersection of design, technology and care. Outcomes of his research span the conceptual and speculative to the commercial: with projects including future Emergency Department waiting rooms with Cabrini Hospital, developing breakthrough wearable continuous diagnostic monitoring technology with the MedTech startup Nutromics, developing integrated models of care for mental health with Turning Point, and co-designing systems of healthcare with the World Health Organisation.
Amy Killen
Amy is a Teaching Fellow in the Department of Design and a researcher with the Design Health Collab at Monash University. She currently coordinates DGN1000, a program that unites design students from Spatial, Communication, Industrial, and Collaborative Design during their first semester of study. Amy's research is highly interdisciplinary and collaborative, engaging with clients such as Metro Trains Melbourne, the Cooperative Research Centre for Water Sensitive Cities, the World Health Organisation, Turning Point, and Monash Health. Her work has received recognition from esteemed organisations, including the Good Design Awards, the Australian Road Research Board (where she received the Research Rising Star award), the International Design Awards, and the International Association of Public Transport.
Rowan Page
Rowan is a Senior lecturer in Industrial Design at Monash Art, Design & Architecture (MADA) and a researcher in the Design Health Collab, an interdisciplinary research lab at the intersection of design and health. Rowan is working on several medical device development projects and has an interest in how design research, practice, and prototypes can aid in medical translational research. His research interests include co-design, speculative design, digital fabrication, emerging technologies and the function of designed artefacts as boundary objects within collaborative and interdisciplinary design projects.