Health and human experience

Monash Art, Design and Architecture researchers investigate how health practices and environments affect people’s thoughts, feelings and behaviours, and ask how things might be done differently.

Taking an integrated approach to human health, we work closely with clinical and allied healthcare professionals, governments, technology providers, organisations, patients and carers to create safer, more efficient and more comfortable environments and systems. The scalability of our interdisciplinary research networks at Monash University enables us to work at the level of the individual, institution or whole community.

From transforming health outcomes in informal settlements to making medtech devices more user-friendly, our people-centred solutions are changing the design, delivery and accessibility of good health.

PALM
Breathing new life into asthma treatment using the PALM of their hand.

RetroFit Kit
This project aims to increase the volume and supply of dignified and inclusive homes for people with disability through design-enabled strategies.

More than a guulany (tree): Aboriginal knowledge systems
An Indigenous-led study of the significance of trees in southeast Australian Aboriginal cultures.

The Citarum Program
Creating clean, healthy and productive rivers and communities.

Mobile Stroke Imager
A lightweight mobile stroke imager designed to fit into standard ambulances and provide faster stroke diagnosis at the point of care.