AUSTRALIAN HEALTH DESIGN COUNCIL

HADN Watch & Connect - Humanising Birth Environments

  • Thursday, May 08, 2025
  • 17:30 - 20:30
  • Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Adelaide, Perth, Online
  • 946

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Join us for HADN’s first Watch & Connect Networking Event, a series designed to spark ideas, share research and connect emerging leaders passionate about transforming healthcare spaces.

The birth environment is where our relationship with space begins — a place where design quite literally shapes life’s first moments. To launch the Watch & Learn series, HADN will turn to the expertise of global leaders & thinkers in this field,  to explore how humanising the birth environment plays a critical role in shaping the physiological birth process, experience, outcomes, and midwifery practice.

Whether you’re a designer, healthcare professional, student or advocate for better care environments, this event is an opportunity to connect and contribute to a growing movement to humanising Australia’s birth environments. 

One not to be missed!! 

Food and drinks will be provided thanks to our sponsor partners AHDC, Sculpform, Architectus, SPH, HPI Health Projects International, Hodgkison

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Locations:

This event will be hosted across a number of studios. Space is limited and registration is essential.

  • Online

  • Melbourne (5.30pm AEST) - Sculptform Design Studio, Ground floor, 50 Queen St, Melbourne

  • Perth (3.30pm AWST) - SPH Architecture + interiors,143 Cambridge St, West Leederville, WA

  • Brisbane (5.30pm AEST) - Architectus, Level 26, 240 Queen Street, Brisbane

  • Sydney (5.30pm AEST) - HPI (Health Projects International), Level 3 52 Alfred Street, South Milson Point, NSW 

  • Adelaide (5.00pm ACST) - Hodgkison, 189 Wakefield Street, Adelaide, SA

Chair & Presenters

Chair: Grace Mclean - recipient of the Byera Hadley Travelling Scholarship

Speakers:

  • Elizabeth Newnham - The Global Birth Environment Design Network, Australia

  • Esben Bala Skouboe - Studio Poesis, Denmark

  • Maralyn Foureur - Honourary Professor, Australia

  • Amanda Hendry - SPH, Australia