The Designers.
Backed by QShelter and the Department of Housing and Public Works, the Lab is the brainchild of Rachel Watson Consulting and Business Models Inc.
The Advisors.
You’re in good company. Our advisory board is a hand-selected group of Queensland’s best, who are all passionate about change in the housing industry.
The Network.
Already a number of Foundation Partners and Industry Innovators have joined the Housing Advisory Lab to help drive change.
The Housing Action Lab presents an opportunity for real collaboration to help drive action and ultimately improve the lives of Queenslanders through innovative housing solutions.
Leveraging Business Models Inc.’s multi-party innovation lab framework and design-thinking methodology, the Lab takes participants through a lean and iterative process of rapid prototyping. What might take months to accomplish alone, the Lab accelerates in a matter of weeks.
By working quickly (and out loud) the Lab participants are immersed in a new way of working that helps to embed the mindsets, skill sets and tool sets that underpin multi-party innovation.
The Designers
Our design team will guide you throughout the entire process – helping you ideate, validate and create solutions for maximum relevance and impact.
The Advisors
Our world-renowned Advisory Board represent the best in industry. Here are just a few of the Housing Action Lab advisors helping guide the journey.
Beth Cardier models stories to understand how we comprehend unexpected information. Her research has provided new foundations for intelligence analysis (with Earl Industries), natural language processing (with Disney Research) and 3D knowledge visualization (with the Virginia Modeling Analysis & Simulation Center - VMASC). She was an all-star collaborator for the National Academies Keck Futures Initiative (2016-2018), leading a funded project that included a fashion designer, neuroscientists and several computer scientists. These projects led to new methodologies for extreme interdisciplinary collaboration, a topic that she has taught to faculty at the Eastern Virginia Medical School (EVMS) and published for the Navy Research Lab. She is currently building a prototype semantic modeling platform in Unity 3D in collaboration with VMASC and EVMS. She holds an interdisciplinary Ph.D. in Creative Writing and Computing Systems from the University of Melbourne. Cardier is now an Assistant Professor at the Eastern Virginia Medical School, as well as co-director of a small advanced research group, Sirius-Beta. A patent on her work has been awarded and several others are pending.
As Backed By:
Q Shelter
Q Shelter’s vision is for every Queenslander to have a home. As such, their purpose is to lead the sector in delivering solutions that address the housing and homelessness needs of vulnerable Queenslanders both now and into the future.
The Network
Already a number of leading players have joined the Housing Action Lab with more to be announced soon. See below for just a few of the companies whose members have joined the Lab ecosystem.
