E. Wylie, J. Kennedy-Good, V. Russell

Beyond Academia

Emma, Justin and Vanessa worked together on the whānau room rejuvenation project in Ara Manawa – the design lab within Auckland District Health Board. The name ‘Ara Manawa’ was gifted by Dame Naida Glavish, the Chief Advisor Tikanga for Auckland and Waitamata DHBs. ‘Ara Manawa’ has two components; ‘Ara’ to create, find, or forge a path. ‘Manawa’ means heartbeat, capturing intelligence, or a psychic knowing. To thereby reflect the creativity of the team and their drive to place people at the heart of design. Ara Manawa champions the needs of users in the design of new spaces, services, experiences and products via the application of human centred design methodology; ensuring the experiences and input of patients, whānau and staff are central throughout the design process.

M. Machado-Braga, A. Paula-Bueno

Beyond Academia

Projeto Vizinhança, created by Márcia Braga and Aline Bueno, is a collaborative and participatory project that happens in different neighborhoods of Porto Alegre, Brazil, continuously since 2012. It is a temporary urban art intervention that discusses issues related to public space and its ability to produce encounters in the daily life of a community. In this sense, through Projeto Vizinhança, we aim to activate idle or «interstitial» spaces of the city transforming them into places. In this session, we will share our experiences and methods presenting the conections that the project enables between art, architecture, urbanism and design.