The Museum of Meaningful Moments (MMM) provides an online space for people to share small, meaningful moments from their everyday lives that may otherwise go unnoticed. Seeing COVID-19 lockdowns as an opportunity for people to slow down and reflect on what mattered to them, MMM aims to build an ongoing collection of appreciative moments during this globally challenging time.

We're looking for two design students, interested in illustration and/or animation, be interested in driving social media, and who can demonstrate leadership, collaborate and be responsible for the following:

• Visualise and illustrate the ‘data’ or stories that emerge from our ‘Imagining Community Wellbeing’ projects and related symposium, and archive this in the online museum
• Manage the MMM social media to grow new followers and maintain engagement with the existing online community
• Managing submissions and posting material as it is submitted

• Creating events and activities to support community engagement or activities  
• Create a book that collects some of the best stories and submissions to the MMM to be published and used as a potential research tool/workshop

Good Health Design will be leading a Design for Health Minor, engaging students interested in the design for health and wellbeing space. This new minor will build on the previous success of Integrated Studio and utilise Good Health Design’s existing relationships with DHB’s and NGOs to provide a challenging and comprehensive experience for students who take the D4H Minor when it starts in 2023.  

The online presence of the D4H Minor (and Design for Health Bootcamps) will indicate to an international interdisciplinary audience, that the AUT and the School of Art & Design is leading in the way it provides relevant and timely programmes to create great graduates ready to make a difference in the world, where health and wellbeing continues to be key area of research and development.  

One of the challenges facing interdisciplinary activities is how to give them form in a way that engages with different disciplines, especially when they come with specific perspectives and ways of doing. For example, those practitioners from the health sciences may value and understand things in a different way that those who may come from design disciplines. Understanding how those from different disciplines ‘see’ things is important to be able to break down barriers to interdisciplinary spaces and collaborations, and to ‘invite’ those who may not have prior knowledge or experience to participate in these new ways of thinking in a safe and open way.

The aim of the summer studentship is to support ongoing research to explore how to communicate the value (make visible and engaging) of collaboration between design and health; how might we communicate the opportunities associated with an emerging discipline (design for health) and the new ways of thinking that come with new interdisciplinary practice, to help those working within their own discipline/silo prepare themselves for the changing industry/sector/field.