NOVELL August Showcase

Back in August we hosted a series of showcases to present some of the work we’ve done so far, as well as gather ideas and feedback on various design iterations from a wide range of our co-researchers and stakeholders. These ongoing evaluations form an essential part of our cycles of innovation in the overall co-design process.

The showcase consisted of three sessions running in parallel, with people coming and going throughout the day.

1) Video presentations
This session consisted of a series of short video presentations from NOVELL team members and co-researchers presenting a range of NOVELL and NOVELL-adjacent research. Videos included: presentations from the winning designs from the International Union of Architects (UIA) student design competition for stroke rehabilitation environments; Recent projects from NOVELL collaborators in Sweden, led by Prof Marie Elf, including an ambitious literature review of healthcare environments research, and a new Living Lab study investigating home environments for stroke rehabilitation; A detailed map of the current care process for stroke rehabilitation in Australia, presented by Dr JP Saa. NOVELL co-researchers helped to create this map, and together we will use it to imagine a new future for the stroke rehab care process.

2) Reimagining the care process for stroke rehabilitation
This session consisted of a design lab where in collaboration with our co-researchers we brought together ideas and inputs from the previous phases of NOVELL to map out a new care process for stroke rehabilitation.

3) View and evaluate our designs in VR
Co-researchers had the opportunity to view the NOVELL bedroom designs in VR. Each co-researcher was shown the four bedroom designs in VR, and asked to rate them according to predefined criteria, with a subsequent focus group to gather feedback.

This showcase was the foundation for our upcoming exhibition which will give everyone the opportunity to see all of the NOVELL outputs from the past four years!