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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 leads
Sara Padgett Kjaersgaard
Tessa Carnegie

Project manager
Colleen Nash

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 UNSW

Design sprint facilitators
Baron Chau
Ashley Eriksmoen - ANU School of Art & Design
Matthew Harkness
Emma Mills

Creative Conversations

Building diverse creative communities.

Host
Vince Frost - Founder, CEO, Executive Creative Director Frost* Collective

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

Event manager
Emma Snowden

Project team
Michaela Turner
Rogaya Alkaff
Baron Chau
Joanne Chiang
Charlotte Adams
Collaborators
Frost*collective
Kartini Ludwig - Kopi Su Studio
Joel Pearson - Future Minds Lab
Jules Munro - Simpsons
Shelly Simpson - Mud Australia
Ramesh Mario Nithiyendran, UNSW Art & Design
Professor Frederik Anseel, UNSW Business School
Sibella Court - Sibella Court Studio
Craig Andrade, The Raconteur
John McGhee, UNSW 3DXLAB

(Daily) Delight~Disrupt

Shifting common sense to support more restorative ways of being.

Academic leads
Tema Milstein
John Carr

Project manager
Nicole Suniary

Graphic designer
Michael Donahue

Project team
Thanh-Van Viviane Nguyen
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

Producers
Carly Vickers
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 design
Briedy Mahar
Michail Vlasopoulo - MCN

Event manager
Emma Snowden

Communications strategy
Trea Murphy

Mask production
UNSW 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
UNSW 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 design
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.

Project sponsor
Lucy Turnbull AO, Turnbull Foundation

Project leads
Carly Vickers
Shriya Srinagesh

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

Project manager
Michaela Turner

Project team
George Newton
Jen Xiang
Paul Matthews
Rogaya Alkaff

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 - UNSW 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 design
Baron Chau - Sessional Academic, School of Art and Design

Project administrative support
Rogaya Alkaff

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

Reimagining how mental health care is delivered in the community.

Project lead
Carly Vickers

Project manager
Michaela Turner

Project team
Rogaya Alkaff
George Newton
Sofia Echesortu
Max Hakeem

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 - Innovation Hub
Carly Vickers - Innovation Hub

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 - UNSW

Project management team
Michaela Turner - Innovation Hub
Rogaya Alkaff - Innovation Hub
Joanne Chiang - Innovation Hub
Chloe Gunn - UNSW
Steve Lennon - GHD Digital
Emma Jones - GHD Digital
Talitha Maturure - GHD Digital
Michael Afaras - GHD Digital
K Leung - GHD Digital

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

Graphic Design
Baron Chau - Innovation Hub

UNSW Health Translation Hub

Reimagining health environments.

Project sponsors
Claire Annesley - Dean, Arts, Design & Architecture
Carly Vickers
Dr Zoe Terpening - Pro Vice Chancellor, Precincts, UNSW

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 and 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 UNSW 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.