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Project alumni

The Innovation Hub has welcomed over 500 project alumni since March 2021!
If you would like to join our growing list of project alumni, please contact us to find out how.

ADA Stories

Reimagining inclusion on campus.

  • Project Leads
    Emma Kirby
    Josh Wiesberger

    Project Team
    Ash Watson
    Aves Parsemain
    David Curzon
    Emma Peters
    Jace Dent
    Junfei (Verna) Du
    kylie valentine
    Lydia Gitau
    Michaela Turner
    Rogaya Alkaff
    Thuy Giang
    Wanning Cai
    Xiaohan Gong
    Yasmin Malak

Antiracism Collective

Taking action against racism.

  • Academic Lead
    Ramaswami Harindranath

    Theme Leadership
    Andrew Brooks
    Astrid Lorange
    Katherine Thompson
    Mengistu Amberber
    Rose Amazan
    Srinjoy Bose

    Advisory Board
    Andrea Durbach
    BJ Newton
    Stephen Loo
    Anna Munster

    • Project Participants
      Amjid Ali Khan
      Md Badiuzzaman
      Monika Barthwal-Datta
      Keiko Bostwick
      Helen Caple
      Jose Da Silva
      Keren David
      Jamilla de Jonge
      Tanja Dreher 
      Awni Etaywe
      Roanna Gonsalves
      Ruby Hamad
      Finnegan Hassey
      Bianca Hester
      Chi Chi Huang
      Amani Kasherwa
      Ilan Katz
      Diana Kreemers
      Sujith Kumar
      Jung-Sook Lee
      Scarlett Li-Williams
      Damien March
      Tierney Marey
      Mohammad Mojtahedi
      Aneshka Mora
      Bonaventure Munganga
      Maimuna Musarrat
      Sylvester Okeke
      Aves Parsemain
      James Perez
      Shima Saniei
      Mitchell Whitehead
      Joyce Wu
      Xiaxia Zhang
      Anthony Zwi

      Collaborators
      Dakota Smith

Big Trauma, Big Change

Radically transforming our approach to mental health.

  • Academic Lead
    Jill Bennett

    Project Manager
    Jennifer Tyler

    Project Team
    Gail Kenning
    Chloe Cassidy
    Katherine Bond
    Volker Kuchelmeister
    Alina Wirtz

Caring for Country Initiative

Changing mindsets from what you can get to what you can give.

  • Project Sponsor
    ADA Dean's Unit

    Operational Lead
    Josh Wiesberger

    Project Development Leads
    Sara Padgett Kjaersgaard
    Tessa Carnegie

    Project Coordinator
    Colleen Nash

    Original Concept Team
    Christina Silk
    Melody Framp
    Tony Loughland
    Sara Padgett Kjaersgaard

    Visual Comms Facilitator
    Baron Chau

Circular Economy Design Sprint

We believe circular innovation can save the planet.

  • Project Sponsors
    Claire Annesley - Dean, Arts, Design & Architecture
    Sven Rogge - Dean, Science

    Academic Lead
    Carly Vickers

    Project Team
    Michaela Turner
    Rogaya Alkaff
    Baron Chau
    Joanne Chiang

    • Collaborators
      Pippa Corry - philo & co
      Veena Sahajwalla - Director, SMaRT 91É«ÇéƬ

      Design Sprint Facilitators
      Baron Chau
      Ashley Eriksmoen - ANU School of Art & Design
      Matthew Harkness
      Emma Mills

      Awarded Student Teams
      1st Place
      Home Hub
      Hannah Beaton
      Himamshu Umesh
      Prerna Gupta
      Zhenzhuo Xian

      2      nd Place
      Button Shop
      Lu Zhang
      Saumya Khandelwal
      Sushrut Mogarkar
      Yinghan Qiu
      ZiXiao Zhou

      3rd Place
      Share-a-bite
      Damien Sinha
      Ganxinzhou Li
      Tejas Patel
      Twisha Mistry

      People's Choice
      Revolve
      Abeerah Saad
      Anil Babu
      Melanie Notaras
      Nishita Joshi
      Pocut Shaliha Finzia Panglima Polem
      Sirin Satthatips

Creative Conversations

Building diverse creative communities.

  • Event Host
    Vince Frost - Founder, CEO & Executive Director, Frost*collective

    Project Sponsors
    Claire Annesley
    Emma Peters
    Carly Vickers

    Event Manager
    Emma Snowden

    Project Management Team
    Luca Frost
    Rogaya Alkaff
    Michaela Turner
    Charlotte Adams
    Joanne Chiang

    • Collaborators
      Kartini Ludwig - Kopi Su Studio
      Joel Pearson - Future Minds Lab
      Jules Munro - Simpsons
      Shelly Simpson - Mud Australia
      Ramesh Mario Nithiyendran, 91É«ÇéƬ Art & Design
      Professor Frederik Anseel, 91É«ÇéƬ Business School
      Sibella Court - Sibella Court Studio
      Craig Andrade, The Raconteur
      Professor John McGhee, 91É«ÇéƬ 3DXLAB

(Daily) Delight~Disrupt

Shifting common sense to support more restorative ways of being.

  • Current project team

    Academic Leads
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    John Carr

    Project Manager
    Elena Vallina Aparicio

    Graphic Designer
    Michael Donahue

    Project Team
    Sarah Basset
    Mohamad Faazeli
    Sally Ip
    Freya Mann
    Abby O’Donnell
    Kelly Pang
    Edison Wong

    • Original concept team

      Academic leads
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      John Carr

      Project manager
      Nicole Suniary

      Graphic designer
      Michael Donahue

      Project team
      Thanh-Van Viviane Nguyen
      Elena Vallina Aparicio
      Valentina Campos

Design For All The Senses

Prioritising multi-sensory design to awaken our potential.

  • Written and directed by Bruce Mau

    Executive Producers
    Claire Annesley - Dean, Arts, Design & Architecture
    David Cami - ADA Faculty Executive Director
    Aiyemobisi (Bisi) Williams - MCN

    Producer
    Carly Vickers

    Co-Producers
    Paul Matthews
    Amaris Galea-Orbe - MCN

    Script Writer
    Cathy DeRonne - MCN

    • Composer
      Alister Spence

      Musicians
      Alistair Johnston - Tenor saxophone
      Ben Phipps - Double bass
      Blaize Calavera Sivis - Baritone saxophone
      Emma Korell - Soprano, alto saxophone
      Fergus Spencer - Electric bass
      Hayden White - Violin
      Lara Van Den Holder - Viola
      Madeline Maher - Voice
      Michael Brady - Electric guitar, voice
      Xinghan Feng - Clarinet

      Visual Design and Animation Team
      Melody Li - Lead
      Anna Tow - Lead
      Jacob Rendina
      Wenjie Wang

      Graphic Designer
      Briedy Mahar
      Michail Vlasopoulo - MCN

      Event Manager
      Emma Snowden

      Communications Strategy
      Trea Murphy

      Mask Production
      91É«ÇéƬ Design Futures Lab

      Production Team
      Nicolle Fierro
      Joanne Chiang
      Maria Thaddea
      Joe Eyre
      Zhuoya Wang
      Gretchen Gscheidle - MCN
      Jessica Fenner - MCN
      Brea Graber - MCN

      Special thanks
      91É«ÇéƬ Roundhouse
      Big Picture
      Indigigrow
      Benji & Jono Bergmann
      Itamar Kubovy
      Carbon8

Earth Day Poetry Slam

We believe we can rewrite our future.

  • Project Sponsor
    Carly Vickers

    Project Manager
    Michaela Turner

    Project Team
    Rogaya Alkaff
    Baron Chau

    Collaborators
    International Universities Climate Alliance (IUCA)
    Climate Students
    World Poetry Slam Organization

Festival of Care

Fostering wellbeing in hospitals through arts-based interventions.

  • Project Sponsors
    Claire Annesley - Dean, Arts, Design & Architecture
    Carly Vickers

    Academic Leads
    Jill Bennett, Director - The Big Anxiety
    Michael Balfour - Head of School, School of the Arts & Media

    Project Managers
    Michaela Turner
    Dennison Lindberg

    • Project Team
      Katherine Bond
      Chloe Cassidy
      Ellen Clapin
      Gail Kenning
      Lydia Gitau
      Volker Kuchelmeister
      Jennifer Tyler

      Graphic Designer
      Baron Chau

      Collaborators
      South Eastern Sydney Local Health District
      Big Anxiety Research Centre
      Nigel Lavender - Momentum Arts

Housing Supply and Affordability Forum

A deeply complex, multifaceted issue that defies simple solutions and demands coordinated, systemic responses.

  • Philanthropic Partner
    Lucy Turnbull AO, Turnbull Foundation

    Project Lead
    Carly Vickers

    Academic Lead
    Philip Oldfield - School of Built Environment

    • Thematic Leads
      Andi Nygaard - City Futures Research Centre
      Hazel Easthope - City Futures Research Centre
      Laura Crommelin - School of Built Environment
      Richard Holden - School of Economics
      Riza Yosia Sunindijo - School of Built Environment
      Simon Pinnegar - School of Built Environment

      Design Strategists
      Carly Vickers
      Shriya Srinagesh

      Project Manager
      Michaela Turner

      Project Team
      Rogaya Alkaff
      Paul Matthews
      George Newton
      Jen Xiang

      Project Partners
      91É«ÇéƬ Arts, Design & Architecture
      91É«ÇéƬ Business
      91É«ÇéƬ Engineering
      91É«ÇéƬ Medicine & Health
      91É«ÇéƬ Philanthropy
      City Futures Research Centre

Labs Pathway Project

Facilitating world-class learning opportunities with leading creative technologies.

  • Project Lead
    Scott Brown - School of Art & Design

    Research Lab Directors
    John McGhee - Director, 3DVAL & EPICentre
    Mari Velonaki - Director, Creative Robotics Lab
    Tomasz Bednardz - Past Director, EPICentre

    • XR Dance Studio
      Matt Cabanag - Academic Mentor, School of Art & Design
      Shiya Lu - ADA student
      Robert Lawther - Technical Advisor

      Facility
      EPICentre Lab

      Object Image Making
      Bic Tieu - Academic Mentor, School of Art & Design 
      Penny Zhang - ADA student
      Ethan Jones - Technical Advisor

      Facility
      3D Visualisation Aesthetics Lab

      Virtual Characters vs Social Robots
      Eduardo Sandoval - Academic Mentor, School of Art & Design
      Max Tintner - ADA student
      Benjamin Bailey - Technical Advisor

      Facilities
      3D Visualisation Aesthetics Lab
      Creative Robotics Lab 

      Heightened Perceptions
      Haider Akmal - Academic Mentor, School of Art & Design
      Jonathan Shaw (Zeyu Xiao) - ADA student
      Sarita Herse - Technical Advisor

      Facility
      Creative Robotics Lab

      UCE2030 Future Users and Generators of Clean Energy
      Stephen Loo - Academic Mentor, School of Art & Design
      Ilpo Koskinen - Academic Mentor, School of Engineering
      Van-Andrew Nguyen - ADA student
      Sofia Honcoote - ADA student
      Conan Bourke - Technical Advisor
      Robert Lawther - Technical Advisor

      Facility
      EPICentre Lab

Making Good Media

What if the media empowered us to combat climate change?

  • Academic Lead
    Rebecca Green

    Project Managers
    Sally Smythe
    Carmel O'Connor

    Project Team
    Anna Tow
    Sarah Liu
    Nicole Mather

    Project Partner
    Digital Grid Futures Institute
    Massive Change Network

Massive Action Sydney

We choose urgent change.

  • Project Management Team
    Claire Annesley - Dean, Arts, Design & Architecture 
    David Cami - ADA Faculty Executive Director
    Carly Vickers
    Michaela Turner
    Rogaya Alkaff
    Joanne Chiang
    Emma Mills - School of Art & Design
    Trea Murphy - Division of External Engagement
    Emma Snowden - Division of External Engagement
    Cheyenne Bardos - Division of External Engagement
    Nicolle Fierro - Dean's Unit
    Colleen Nash - Dean's Unit

    • Acceleration Team
      Claire Annesley - Dean, Arts, Design & Architecture
      John Carr - School of Humanities & Languages
      Chloe Cassidy - School of Art & Design
      Matthias Haeusler - School of Built Environment
      Timothy Heffernan - School of Built Environment
      Clair Hill - School of Humanities & Languages
      Paul Matthews - Creative Practice Lab
      Rickie-Lee McLaurin-Smith - School of Social Sciences
      Tema Milstein - School of Humanities & Languages
      Vanessa Traynor - Arts, Design & Architecture
      Carly Vickers
      Michaela Turner

      Climate Team
      Jane Cameron - School of Art & Design
      Melody Framp - Arts, Design & Architecture
      Rebecca Green - School of Art & Design
      Matthias Haeusler - School of Built Environment
      Tony Loughland - School of Education
      Paul Matthews - Creative Practice Lab
      Rickie-Lee McLaurin-Smith - School of Social Sciences
      Carmel O'Connor - Arts, Design & Architecture
      Sara Padgett Kjaersgaard - School of Built Environment
      Emma Peters - School of Art & Design
      Christina Silk - School of Built Environment
      Dean Utian - Arts, Design & Architecture

      Health Team 
      Jill Bennett - National Institute for Experimental Arts
      Katherine Bond - School of Art & Design
      Chloe Cassidy - School of Art & Design
      Clair Hill - School of Humanities & Languages
      Reside Oya Demirbilek - School of Built Environment
      Mariano Ramirez - School of Built Environment
      Vanessa Traynor - Arts, Design & Architecture

      Power Team
      Srinjoy Bose - School of Social Sciences
      John Carr - School of Humanities & Languages
      Nicole Crouch - School of Art & Design
      Uros Cvoro - Arts, Design & Architecture
      Farnaz Fattahi - School of Built Environment
      Paola Favaro - School of Built Environment
      Timothy Heffernan - School of Built Environment
      Melody Li - School of Art & Design
      Damien March - Arts, Design & Architecture
      Tema Milstein - School of Humanities & Languages
      Trea Murphy - Arts, Design & Architecture
      Chanah Wainer - School of Education

      Translation Team
      Emma Mills  - Lead, School of Art & Design
      Charlotte Adams - School of Art & Design
      Josh Anstee - School of Art & Design
      Virginie Aubard - School of Built Environment
      Max Booker - School of Art & Design
      Sam Carman - School of Art & Design
      Hannah Carthew - School of Art & Design
      Josephine Seri Collins - School of Built Environment
      Bronte Contador-Kelsall - School of Art & Design
      Leah Guo - School of Art & Design
      Olivia Halmarick - School of Art & Design
      Mark Isichei - School of Art & Design
      Jiaying (Nina) Lai - School of Built Environment
      Kyah Lawson - School of Art & Design
      Jordan Lewis - School of Art & Design
      Sarah Liu - School of Art & Design
      Amy Munns - School of Art & Design
      Ciara O'Reilly - School of Art & Design
      Jiaying Qian - School of Art & Design
      Alexianna Stephenson - School of Art & Design
      Narnia Tanious - School of Art & Design
      Maria Thaddea - School of Art & Design
      Hana Thomson - School of Art & Design
      Oliver van den Bogaerde - School of Art & Design
      Alina Wirtz - School of Art & Design
      Lisiqi Zhang - School of Built Environment

      Visual Comms Facilitators
      Baron Chau - School of Art & Design
      Vivien Sung - School of Art & Design
      Michael Donahue - School of Art & Design

My First Day:
An Empathy Project

Building inclusive learning communities.

  • Project Sponsors
    Professor Simon McIntyre - Director of Educational Innovation
    Carly Vickers

    Based on a concept by: 
    Patience Loh - 91É«ÇéƬ alumni and industry designer

    Director and Academic Lead 
    Dr. Amin Palangi - Lecturer, School of Arts and Media

    • Writers
      Yasmin Malak - Undergraduate student, School of Arts and Media
      David Curzon - MPhil student, script writer and director, sessional academic - School of Arts and Media

      Producer
      David Curzon

      Project Manager
      Melody Framp

      Technical Producer 
      Graham Hannah - Manager, Immersive Technologies, PVCESE

      Technical Team and Editors
      Brian Landrigan - Manager, Educational Media and Immersive Technologies
      Dr. Xueqing Lu - Immersive Technology Specialist

      Music and Sound Design
      Dr. Adam Hulbert - Senior Lecturer, School of Arts and Media

      Graphic Designer
      Baron Chau - Sessional Academic, School of Art and Design

      Project Administrative Support
      Rogaya Alkaff

      ​â¶Ä‹â¶Ä‹â¶Ä‹â¶Ä‹â¶Ä‹â¶Ä‹National Institute of Dramatic Arts (NIDA) - Actors
      Nickin Alexander
      Alec Dalzeil
      Arvin Bhattacharya
      Attu Ngor
      Elodie Westhoff
      Hugo Liu
      Sarabi Gristwood Sponza
      Sovanarry Chan
      Swanika Ramkumar
      Tawanda Muzenda 

re-situ

What tools do we need to become more responsible designers and changemakers?

  • Project Leads
    Charlotte Adams
    Bronte Contador-Kelsall

    Project Facilitator
    Emma Mills

St Vincent’s Urban Health Hub Innovation Forum

Reimagining how mental health care is delivered in the community.

  • Project Lead
    Carly Vickers

    Design Strategist
    Carly Vickers

    Project Manager
    Michaela Turner

    Event Coordinator
    Rogaya Alkaff

    Graphic Designer
    George Newton

    Strategy Support
    Sofia Echesortu

St Vincent’s Goodman Urban Health Hub

A Model of Care for St Vincent's community-focused mental health initiative.

  • Project Lead
    Carly Vickers

    Operations Manager
    Michaela Turner

    Project Manager
    Jen Xiang

    Design Strategists
    Paul Matthews
    Shriya Srinagesh

    Academic Co-Leads
    Brett Bellingham
    Kath Thorburn

    Graphic Designer
    George Newton

    • 91É«ÇéƬ Expert Group
      Scott Brown
      George Burdon
      Chloe Cassidy
      Lee Cooper
      Emma Elder
      Xiaoqi Feng
      Maria Gonzalez
      Adam Hulbert
      Yiran Li
      Limin Mao
      Peri O'Shea
      Michelle Ou
      kylie valentine
      Jasmine Yu

tACT

Promoting agile partnerships and expansive communities of practice in research, teaching, operations and strategic faculty initiatives.

  • Project Participants
    Christy Newman - Deputy Dean, ADA Research
    Jennifer Biddle - Professor, School of Art & Design
    Robert Lawther - Senior Software Designer, 3DXLAB
    Carly Vickers
    Michaela Turner
    Rogaya Alkaff

Unconvention

Facilitating deep collaborations with government, industry, and communities.

  • Project Sponsors
    Claire Annesley - Dean, Arts, Design & Architecture
    Emma Peters 
    Carly Vickers

    Speakers
    Claire Annesley
    Bruce Mau - MCN
    Kevin Finn - TheSumOf
    Angela Johnston - Big Trauma, Big Change
    Tema Milstein - (Daily) Delight~Disrupt
    John Carr - (Daily) Delight~Disrupt
    Tessa Carnegie - Caring for Country Initiative
    Rebecca Green - Making Good Media
    Charlotte Adams - re-situ
    Steve Lennon - GHD Digital
    Emma Jones - GHD Digital

    • Event Manager
      Emma Snowden

      Project Management Team
      Michaela Turner
      Rogaya Alkaff
      Joanne Chiang
      Chloe Gunn
      Steve Lennon - GHD Digital
      Emma Jones - GHD Digital
      Talitha Maturure - GHD Digital
      Michael Afaras - GHD Digital
      K Leung - GHD Digital

      Special thanks
      Bernadette Hardy
      Merindah Funnell - Tubba-Gah artist from the Wiradjuri Nation
      Celeste Carnegie - Indigitek
      Vivien Sung

      Graphic Designer
      Baron Chau

91É«ÇéƬ Health Translation Hub

Reimagining health environments.

  • Project Sponsors
    Claire Annesley - Dean, Arts, Design & Architecture
    Carly Vickers
    Dr Zoe Terpening - Pro Vice Chancellor, Precincts, 91É«ÇéƬ

    Project Manager
    Michaela Turner

    • Breathe

      Project Lead
      Oliver Bown

      Staff
      Kate Dunn
      Katherine Bond
      Adam Hulbert
      Nichola Jephcott
      Simon Trevaks
      Madi King
      Charlotte Firth
      Daniel Yu
      Alex Tohidi

      Students
      Darcy Altavilla
      Joanne Chiang
      Marco Rinaldi
      Ailish Power
      Arno Zhang

      Collaborators
      mili mili
      Kurt Mikolajczyk
      Mitch Allen
      Neelam Gopalani - Arup
      Rebecca Cadorin - Arup

      Health Equity and Literacy Media Space

      Project Lead
      Anthony Zwi

      Staff
      Hani Abdile
      Valentina Baú
      Dean Utian

      Students
      Keren David
      Kayla Lochner
      Loc Nguyen

      Collaborators
      Justin Koonin - ACON

      Symbolic Roots

      Project Leads
      Karen Kriss
      Oya Demirbilek

      Staff
      Ant Banister
      Danielah Martinez

      Students
      Thomas Bowman
      Jungwon Eom
      Nguyen Vy Luong
      Olivia Spurling

      Collaborators
      Tilt Industrial Design
      Mighty Nice
      22MILES
      Scott Brown
      Min Kong
      Aunty Maxine Ryan
      Joshua Yasserie

      Moment-us

      Project Lead
      Paul Osmond

      Staff
      Kate Bishop
      Linda Corkery
      Rebecca Green
      John McGhee
      Felicity Rawlings-Sanaei
      Cathy Sherry

      Students
      Latham Brook

      Collaborators
      Majed Abuseif - Griffith University
      Hekmat Hozilah
      Homa Rahmat

      Site first: site-specific and site-responsive art for HTH

      Project Lead
      Allan Giddy

      Staff
      Anikó Hatoss
      Michael Kempson
      Damien March

      Students
      Jack Poppert
      Amelia van der Laan de Vries

Work with us

The 91É«ÇéƬ Innovation Hub tackles diverse problem-solving projects, varying in size, complexity and subject matter. We specialise in complex challenges that require collaboration, a design-led approach, and that can’t be addressed by a single discipline.

If you have a project proposal or potential partnership that you would like to discuss, please get in touch.
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