Please join us for our 2025 Annual General Meeting, which will be hosted online and followed by a webinar presentation.

Annual General Meeting

5:30 - 5:50pm AEDT (4:30 - 4:50pm AEST)

Join our short AGM session in which our incoming AHDC Committee members will be announced. If you haven't voted for your committee nominations, you can still do so until 9 October, 2025. The agenda and related attachments will be shared in the next couple of weeks.

Please note that the Inaugural Gold Medalist will be announced after the conclusion of the AGM.

Webinar - Designing for Dignity – User Experience & Wayfinding

The AGM will be followed by a webinar presentation delivered by Dr YE Ng on user experience and wayfinding. 

This webinar will share insights from case studies of residential aged care homes and satellite health centres in Southeast Queensland, highlighting how spatial qualities, intuitive design, and signage strategies shape the journeys of residents and patients. Drawing on mixed-methods research—including semi-structured interviews, journey mapping, and behavioural observation—the session will demonstrate how evidence-based design can transform user experience in both healthcare and aged care settings.

The findings have informed design interventions now applied across multiple Bolton Clarke sites nationally, offering practical strategies for architects, designers, and providers committed to creating environments that empower older people and enhance the hospital experience.

By the end this presentation, you will 

• Understand the role of user experience in how residents and patients navigate hospitals and aged care environments.

• Explore evidence-based design strategies that go beyond signage, integrating architecture, interiors, and environmental cues to support dignity and independence.

• Learn from real-world case studies in aged care homes and satellite health centres in Southeast Queensland, backed by mixed-methods research.

• Gain practical design insights applied across Bolton Clarke sites nationally—tools you can adapt for hospitals, aged care, and community health projects.

Speaker: Dr YE Ng, Registered Architect

Continuing Professional Development

This event provides opportunities for CPD points for Architects, Project Managers and Engineers. For more information go to www.aushdc.org.au/cpd. Relevant NSCA Units for this event (Architects Only):

• PC1 Comply with the regulatory requirements and obligations pertaining to practice as an architect, including legislation, professional codes of conduct, obligations for continuing professional development and professional indemnity insurance.
• PC12 Understand how relevant building codes, standards and planning controls apply across architectural practice, including climate change implications, the principles of fire safety, and barriers to universal access
• PC32 Be able to apply planning principles and statutory planning requirements to the site and conceptual design of the project