Wayfinding, especially when done well, aims to achieve the very opposite of other types of design – it strives to go unnoticed.
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ID-LAB France wayfinders Loic and Valerie eventually found their way to wayfinding, but the path wasn’t always straightforward.
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PPPs (or public private partnerships) are nothing new in Australia. They’ve been around for 30 years and ID-LAB has been on plenty of them. In fact, we worked for the winning team on E.V.E.R.Y. hospital PPP we participated in.
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When ID-LAB started in 2006, the word ‘wayfinding’ was barely used. We made it our mission to change this mindset, changing the conversation and the practice of wayfinding in Australia to think about the user journey and how seamless it could be.
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The Victorian Comprehensive Cancer Centre is a beacon of hope on the cancer research and treatment landscape. It may also be one of the world’s most beautiful and approachable hospitals in the world.
Despite some apparent shortcomings, mental mapping is an essential skill we depend upon every day—commuting to workplaces and returning home, visiting new places, taking shortcuts, or giving directions.
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It is widely recognised that urban open spaces are beneficial to our communities and cities. Research also indicates that they can either positively or negatively impact our physical and mental health.
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Physical space can play a significant role in determining what type of experience a dementia patient has.
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Tender applications are a reluctant task for us. On the surface, they seem to have numerous benefits. But tenders come with many drawbacks, especially for experts looking to push the envelope of what’s possible.
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ID-LAB was entrusted with enhancing the navigability of the State Library of Victoria to both enhance a regular user’s experience and prompt a sense of curiosity.
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A major reason I began ID-LAB was to create beautiful environments that simply worked. While we have a reputation for only working on the “big developments”, there is just as much pleasure and pride in delivering projects that some might consider “too small”.
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At ID-LAB, we work according to a principle expressed (although not quite verbatim) by Albert Einstein in 1933: “Everything should be as simple as it can be, but not simpler”.
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On my trip to Vietnam a few years ago, I was struck by how many motorbikes there were. More amazing was how the drivers negotiated traffic. What seemed like total chaos at the beginning, turned out to be a well-oiled system.
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