ADA Stories explores creative methods to integrate and understand inclusion, with a focus on uncovering less visible experiences (and spaces) of belonging. It engages in story-driven ways to imagine, understand and map lived experiences of inclusion within our campus environments.

A proactive, culturally and environmentally just initiative, that provides UNSW ADA staff the opportunity to undertake up to four days additional leave per year to volunteer and give back to Country.

A MASSIVE ACTION Sydney project using speculative design to help us imagine what media could look like in a hopeful, climate positive future. The Making Good Media project team of UNSW designers, directors, visual effects creators and writers create short, shareable media clips to show what possible futures might look like.

A grassroots movement transforming environmental engagement through simple, joyful activities. Themed weekly practices empower people to reconnect with each other and the planet through simple, delightful actions that disrupt harmful norms. By spreading joy and care, it builds a global culture of positive, restorative change.

A MASSIVE ACTION Sydney project redefining mental health support through community-driven, trauma-informed resources. Using immersive tools like VR, it empowers people to address trauma, foster connections, and spark transformation beyond the limits of traditional medical models.

Designers have a responsibility to make informed decisions. re-situ is a digital platform that aims to connect different perspectives and knowledge systems and suggest tools to reflect on our practice, challenge our perceptions and unlearn limiting beliefs and bias. 

The ADA Innovation Hub and Vince Frost of Frost*collective invite you to a series of Creative Conversations designed to explore and untangle important developments in the creative industries. These dynamic conversations unpack topics from a range of diverse perspectives, stimulating connection to ensure a thriving creative community in Sydney.

Our Unconvention trialled a new model for open and inclusive collaboration with a continuous evolution of participants and ideas. We brought 100 potential partners into conversations about five ongoing initiatives from our MASSIVE ACTION Sydney projects that address the wicked problems of climate, mental health, and environmental stewardship.

A curated program of creative arts based interventions designed to enhance the wellbeing of hospital staff after the workplace pressures and stress of the COVID-19 pandemic - drawing on the talents of performing artists, designers, researchers, and creatives spaces from across UNSW Arts, Design & Architecture.

From 2022-2024 the ADA Innovation Hub partnered with designers Bruce Mau and Aiyemobisi (Bisi) Williams and their Massive Change Network^® on a collaborative project focusing on the areas of Power, Health, Climate & Translation, and in doing so will accelerate our ADA2051 commitment to seek and solve problems to improve life on earth.

An immersive two-day workshop and design sprint designed to empower students from all disciplines as levers of change in a circular economy. Sixty students from 12 schools were challenged to think differently, to work creatively, and problem solve by collaborating in diverse, interdisciplinary teams.

An international poetry slam competition hosted by the International Universities Climate Alliance, World Poetry Slam Organization, Climate Students Movement and the ADA Innovation Hub. Students from across the globe were invited to re-imagine our world through the medium of slam poetry to celebrate Earth Day 2023.

2022 was a big and exciting year for the Innovation Hub, culminating in our annual Showcase which featured five out of our six current projects highlighting the amazing work achieved throughout the year by over 220 members of the ADA community. 

The co-design and delivery of an immersive production taking the audience through an experience of their five senses. Written and directed by Bruce Mau of Massive Change Network^®, with original music, digital media design, choreography, graphic design, and production design by an ADA creative team brought together by the Innovation Hub.

My First Day: An Empathy Project is a co-produced creative collaboration between the ADA Innovation Hub and the office of the Pro Vice Chancellor Education and Student Experience.