Monash University's Department of Design is celebrating a string of awards in the 2021 Good Design Awards, announced as part of Good Design Week.
From hand hygiene, aircraft cabins and mechanical ventilators, to codesign tools, urban safety and 'i-conic' exhibitions, the work of Monash Art, Design and Architecture staff and students has been recognised with six separate awards across Design Research, Communication Design and Next Generation categories.
Many of the winning projects were developed with multidisciplinary teams and external partners - highlighting the essential role of collaboration in designing for impact across a whole range of applications.
Head of the Design Department, Associate Professor Gene Bawden said: "Securing this number of awards is a real boost for our design researchers, practitioners, students and collaborators.
"They are evidence that the Monash design community continues to confront significant challenges, not only the ones we faced together in lockdown, but those that need to be addressed beyond the pandemic, including urban safety, health and hygiene, and authentic community engagement."
The Dean of Monash Art, Design and Architecture, Professor Shane Murray, offered congratulations to the team.
"These are impactful projects in themselves and I'm pleased these awards have recognised the contribution the team is making, generating outcomes through design," Professor Murray said.
"With the appointment of Dr Leah Heiss, our new International Research Chair in Design and recipient of one of the awards, we are looking forward to more great work and collaborations in the future."
The Good Design Awards, which were presented between October 11-15, are the highest honour for design and innovation in the country, celebrating the best new products and services on the Australian and international market. This year's Awards attracted a record number of submissions.
MONASH ADA WINNERS:
Gold Accolades
- Clean Hands, Save Lives: Designed Hand Hygiene for Improved Healthcare
Monash Design Health Collab with Enware, Monash Health, Monash Electrical & Data Engineering and Oracle Healthcare
Redesigning hand hygiene safety through human-centred design. The Hand Hygiene Management system assists health care facilities' transition from enforced and indiscernible hand hygiene compliance to one where sustainable hand hygiene behaviour is second-nature.
- Tactile ToolsAssociate Professor Leah Heiss and Dr Marius Foley
The Tactile Tools co-design method brings together diverse groups of people to solve complex problems. The toolkit draws from human-centred design research and has been used by over 250 professionals in aged care and healthcare to solve complex problems, including redesigning end-of-life experience.
- I-conic Australian DesignIan Wong and Tim Isaacson
A design research project and enduring archive contributing to the understanding of the practice of industrial design in Australia. From world first innovation such as the Kambrook powerboard, to household favourites like the Nylex Esky: our daily lives are powered by the outputs of industrial design.
- Hypersext CityMonash XYX Lab (Gene Bawden, Nicole Kalms, Isabella Webb, Gill Mathewson, Jess Berry, Timothy Moore, Hayden Doward, Ella Mitchell)
An immersive typographic installation, video series and participatory website. The project is both a representation of and repository for research pertaining to gendered harassment, violence and unsafe behaviour as it occurs in our cities.
Good Design Award
- Repose: an economy class aircraft cabin designed for sleepNyein Aung (and his PhD supervisors Mark Armstrong, Arthur de Bono, Robbie Napper, Monash Design Health Collab)
Repose is an aircraft cabin that improves the inflight sleep of economy passengers through cabin design instead of seat design.
Next Generation Award
- Addivent
Aman Bhatti and Ben Fraser (Monash Industrial Design & Engineering students)
A low-cost and easy-to-manufacture mechanical ventilator, primarily made through additive manufacturing, which can easily be crowdsourced to members of the community.
