[capstone-project_2023]Crafting Allies
Crafting Allies uses the creative medium of quilting towards gender-expansive and trans inclusive workplaces. Through facilitated quilting workshops, participants explore their lived experiences and connect with colleagues of varying gender identities. Through kōrero and the making of individual quilt blocks, employees gain agency over their identity or allyship and widen their perspectives on what gender and allyship can mean.
Crafting Allies
Crafting Allies uses the creative medium of quilting towards gender-expansive and trans inclusive workplaces. Through facilitated quilting workshops, participants explore their lived experiences and connect with colleagues of varying gender identities. Through kōrero and the making of individual quilt blocks, employees gain agency over their identity or allyship and widen their perspectives on what gender and allyship can mean.[process-motivated-design_2023]Local Making
“How can the process of making improve mental well-being?” We embarked on a series of reflective experiments to answer this question. The goal was not follow steps to a conclusion but use designerly ways of thinking and doing to facilitate connection, agency, and widening perspectives. I call this process-motivated design.
Local Making
“How can the process of making improve mental well-being?” We embarked on a series of reflective experiments to answer this question. The goal was not follow steps to a conclusion but use designerly ways of thinking and doing to facilitate connection, agency, and widening perspectives. I call this process-motivated design. [Positionality-toolkit_2023]Ko wai au?
Following the Hautū Waka framework, my group designed and ran a workshop to guide our peers towards understanding, reflecting and discussing their positionality, especially regarding how it impacts their design.
The tohu, or insights from the workshop, steered us to design a toolkit for university design students to understand the dimensions of their positionality and be able to reflect and discuss how it impacts their worldview critically and, by extension, their design practice.
Ko wai au?
Following the Hautū Waka framework, my group designed and ran a workshop to guide our peers towards understanding, reflecting and discussing their positionality, especially regarding how it impacts their design. The tohu, or insights from the workshop, steered us to design a toolkit for university design students to understand the dimensions of their positionality and be able to reflect and discuss how it impacts their worldview critically and, by extension, their design practice.
Prototyping the toolkit.
[Seedlinks-app-prototype_2022]Urban Farming
Our proposed solution to the disconnect between gardeners and community gardens was a 'digital community garden.' Through empathy mapping, we identified that not everyone could access a community garden like OMG, so our app brings the community to users' gardens.
We prototyped an app focusing on connection and sharing knowledge, supporting the community to grow food from seedling to harvest. This app provides the space for the community to organise events, share their harvested kai and create groups.
Urban Farming
Communities
Our proposed solution to the disconnect between gardeners and community gardens was a 'digital community garden.' Through empathy mapping, we identified that not everyone could access a community garden like OMG, so our app brings the community to users' gardens.We prototyped an app focusing on connection and sharing knowledge, supporting the community to grow food from seedling to harvest. This app provides the space for the community to organise events, share their harvested kai and create groups.
Wireframe for Figma prototype.
[Smart-city-storage_2021]Pātaka Pods
Smart technology can improve the quality of life for city people. My team designed a storage service for street whānau to protect their belongings from the elements and theft. Undergoing many iterations and feedback from people who have experienced homelessness in Tāmaki Makaurau, we developed the physical design and proposed system for accessing storage lockers.
A slide from our pitchdeck.
Pātaka Pods
Smart technology can improve the quality of life for city people. My team designed a storage service for street whānau to protect their belongings from the elements and theft. Undergoing many iterations and feedback from people who have experienced homelessness in Tāmaki Makaurau, we developed the physical design and proposed system for accessing storage lockers.A slide from our pitchdeck.
A mock-up of how the storage units might look, lit up at night. (artwork by Lisa Reihana)