Led by Professor Sonja Pedell, the Swinburne Living Lab is a European Network (ENoLL) accredited living lab and a founding member of the Australian Living Lab Innovation Network (ALLiN). We develop solutions to increase health and wellbeing across the life span and ageing populations.
For Australia and the rest of the world, creating effective and cost-efficient methods to improve health and wellbeing is a moral and economic imperative. The Living Lab approach increases adoption rates and reduces the risks associated with such innovation.
The Living Lab strongly emphasises co-creation, real-life settings, human-centred and emotion-led design to give users a strong voice in the process.
Our projects aim to:
increase the quality of life and independence of vulnerable user groups—older adults, people living with dementia, disabilities and culturally diverse groups
act as an advocacy to fight against ageism
collaborate in robotics for health (Assistive Robots for the future of healthcare)
develop innovative solutions that people readily adopt, as they fit with their actual needs and goals.
Living Labs are a proven innovation platform; supported by the EU for their effectiveness in creating innovations that lead to economic, social and environmental benefit.
Program team
Feature publications
Feature projects
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A Better Visit App
Learn about the Future Self Living Lab’s development of an App to support meaningful interactions between people with advanced dementia and their loved ones.
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Co-design Training
Learn about our co-design training programs at Future Self Living Lab, offering businesses and government a variety of co-design approaches.
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Waiting Room 2.0 Animation
The CDI’s Future Self Living Lab tackled social and physical barriers to essential healthcare by reimagining the modern waiting room.
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ARDA
The Future Self Living Lab worked with Dementia Australia to develop technology applications supporting the independence of people living with mild to moderate dementia in their homes.
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Interactive Sandbox
The CDI’s Future Self Living Lab created an Interactive Sandbox that served as both an awareness tool for deforestation and a musical instrument for people living with dementia.
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Social Prescribing
The CDI’s Future Self Living Lab worked with ACCESS Health and Community to co-design a social prescription service, ready to trial within their organisation.
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Safety at Work
The CDI's Future Self Living Lab is facilitating greater access to VR training for Disability Care Workers through our Safety at Work project.
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Learning for Low Carbon Living
The CDI’s Future Self Living Lab is addressing the challenge of embedding sustainable practices into construction processes for apprentices and tradespeople.
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Motivational Goal Modelling
Discover how the CDI’s Future Self Living Lab (FSLL) use Motivational Goal Modelling to assist organisations in their strategic planning and thinking.
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We always welcome new partners. If you are interested in transforming ideas into commercially competitive outcomes, need the support of our research or have any other queries, contact us on +61 3 9214 6072 or email cdiadmin@swinburne.edu.au.