AUT Design for Health Symposium 2023
AUT’s upcoming Design for Health Symposium 2023 explores the numerous benefits the come from collaboration in the fields of healthcare and design.
This year’s one-day symposium, held at the AUT City Campus on 6 December, focuses on how designers and healthcare providers can collaborate with specific communities to bring their solutions to life, with a focus on rangatahi – our future leaders.
Organised by AUT School of Art and Design’s Good Health Design lab with AUT’s Taupua Waiora Research Centre and AUT’s Centre for Person Centred Research, the symposium has an exciting line up of provocative speakers who either work with, or are rangatahi themselves.
“Mainstream providers have a role in working with those most underserved, and they must give space and time to allow rangatahi to lead and design their solutions and ways of doing things,” says Professor Stephen Reay, who heads the Good Health Design lab.
Professor Reay says this requires reimagining how ideas of ‘health’ and ‘wellness’ are conceptualised and addressed within contemporary practices and systems in Aotearoa.
“Practices need to be people-centred, community-driven, co-produced, and underpinned by authentic partnerships,” he says.
In a change from previous years, the format of this year’s symposium will see speakers’ presentations followed by interactive discussions allowing symposium participants time and space to reflect, question and collectively engage and respond to the opportunities presented.
Details:
Wednesday 6th December 2023.
9am to 5.30pm (registration opens at 8.30am.)
WG308, The Wave Room, AUT City Campus, 55 Wellesley St East, Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland.
Tickets:
$50 Academics/Professionals
$20 Community/NGOs
$10 Students
Get tickets at the Good Health Design website
2023 Design for Health Symposium speaker presentations:
Jordan Tane, Kyani Utia, Sisi Panikoula. What makes me plastic?
The negative term ‘plastic’ has come about mostly from young Māori and Pasifika who do not feel worthy, and this has led to even more young Māori and Pasifika being reluctant to identify with their culture. When AUT students Jordan, Kyani, Sisi and Gloria surveyed more than 200 young Māori and Pasifika, they found that 68 percent of respondents felt they were ‘plastic’. This led them to believe that if their communities were to fix these divides, people’s attitudes and perspectives needed to change. They found it difficult articulating the project in a way where others were able to understand it. This lack of understanding was pivotal to the development of their project, which led them to change from an educational tool to a confronting campaign. ‘What makes me Plastic’ is bold and self-reflective. It acts as both a question and a statement.
Ngahina Legros and Mychail Harris-Hill. Kimi Manaakitanga.
Ngahina Legros and Mychail Harris-Hill discuss Kimi Manaakitanga, a youth hub run by the Kirikiriroa Family Services Trust, which offers an all-hours safe space for rangatahi.
Dr Paula Toko King, Carmel West, Isaac Heron and Zak Quor. Kia Tika, Kia Pono – Honouring Truths: ensuring the participatory rights of tamariki and rangatahi who are care experienced.
For tamariki and rangatahi, particularly those who currently or at some stage in their lives have been in foster or residential care, participation alongside adults can be a stressful experience, fraught with tensions and anxieties. Yet it also has the potential, through reciprocity, mutual engagement, and shared learning, to uphold mana and affirm young people as the experts of their own lives. The challenge is to engage rather than sidestep these complexities, and to do so reflexively and with integrity. Kia Tika, Kia Pono – Honouring Truths is an ethical framework co-created with rangatahi who are care experienced. Kia Tika, Kia Pono is intended for use by organisations and others working across the range of sectors and services that seek to engage tamariki and rangatahi who are care experienced in governance, policy making, service design, research or media. Grounded in Te Tiriti o Waitangi and participatory rights frameworks, Kia Tika, Kia Pono centres the knowledge, voices, and priorities of rangatahi with care experience, and is given life by their passionate investment in creating positive change for tamariki and rangatahi involved with the care system.
Anna Rolleston, Marama McDonald. Mahitahi / Co-design: finding common ground.
Co-design and mahitahi have synergies, and working at the interface between Western and mātauranga Māori knowledge systems can provide innovative solutions that draw on the strengths of both worldviews
Te Wai Barbarich-Unasa. Whakamana te reo ā ngā rangatahi ki roto i ngā ratonga hauora (Empowering the voices of our young people in health services).
Rangatahi engagement in health services occurs daily. However, understanding how to positively engage rangatahi in health services requires both a kaupapa Māori guided approach and one that is directly targeted to their specific age group. Prevention of the over-representation of Māori in negative statistics is extremely important, especially for the future of rangatahi. The need for a framework to support quality engagement and a value exchange between rangatahi and health services is crucial to improve the well-being of individuals, whānau, iwi and communities in Aotearoa.
Tom Johnson, Cinnamon Lindsay Latimer, Tomairangi Morgan, Ben Barton. Beyond the data: Rangatahi re-storying Māori health research.
This presentation will look at examples of how rangatahi who are engaged in Māori health research have used interview and secondary data about Māori health and wellbeing issues to re-tell the story in ways that transcend ‘traditional’ research analysis dissemination methods. Whakauae Research is an iwi-owned Māori health research centre that has worked closely with rangatahi to build engagement, capacity and capability in the Māori research space. This presentation features the work of two groups of rangatahi who re-imagined data through narrative storytelling and boardgames. It will look at how we can bring rangatahi into research spaces to innovate and re-design research thinking and impact.