Dr Aaron Davis is a designer, facilitator, collaborator and thinker.
Dr Aaron Davis is curious, creative, and loves getting involved in new challenges. He is passionate about helping people work together, and about contributing to solutions to challenging problems. Dr Davis has a reputation as someone that gets things done, and is a safe pair of hands for leading the facilitation of complex projects. Dr Davis’ academic and professional background allows him to bring wisdom and perspectives from a wide range of areas.
Dr Aaron Davis holds positions as Associate Professor in Design and Health at Adelaide University, adjunct Research Fellow at the Florey Institute of Neuroscience and Mental Health, and Design Futures Lead at the SA Futures Agency. A fellow of the Salzburg Global Seminar, Aaron works globally with a wide range of academic and industry partners. Recent collaborations include the World Health Organisation, World Dental Federation, the Australian Academy of Sciences, CSIRO, Woolworths Group, and the Australian Medical Association.
Aaron has experience in leading projects at scales from 4 to 400 participants, and across face-to-face, online, and hybrid platforms, using live and asynchronous methodologies.
Find out more about how you can work with Aaron below.
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Design Thinking, Creativity, Innovation, The Entrepreneurial Mindset, Co-Design, Interdisciplinary Work, Teamwork and Collaboration can all seem daunting to get involved with, but all are skills that can be learned and developed.
Aaron offers bespoke coaching for teams. He has experience delivering training for all audiences, including boards and senior executive groups, primary, secondary, and tertiary students, emerging and established entrepreneurs, teachers, healthcare professionals, government, and the general public
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Engaging with people who will use a product, service, or system during the design and development of that product, service, or system is a pretty obvious starting point for many. But in practice, people often find themselves with questions like: ‘who should we engage?’, ‘how do we engage?’, and ‘what questions should we ask?’.
Aaron’s approach to engagement is rooted in a combination of cutting edge academic theory and extensive practice experience, and he is a highly sought after engagement strategist.
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Facilitation is an important part of any good collaboration. Whether it’s for a team meeting or event, or more complex blue-sky or strategic planning processes. Having an outside facilitator can help take your teamwork to a new level. Aaron is an experienced facilitator who can bring groups together face-to-face or in online or virtual environments. This can be through:
Event hosting, online and face-to-face
Blue-sky thinking workshops
Design thinking workshops
Strategic planning workshops, or
Team working sessions
Aaron brings significant experience in the design of bespoke facilitation tools, as well as certification as a Lego® Serious Play® facilitator to customise events to meet and surpass expectations.
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Aaron’s research broadly focus on processes of collaboration. He has experience in using a variety of methodological approaches, including in mixed methods research.
If you are looking for opportunities to partner or engage in research, we can discuss formal academic partnerships, or more informal toe-in-the-water style research processes.
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A key part of the co-creation process is being able to translate participant contributions into designs ideas and concepts. Aaron has significant experience in conceptual design and prototype design across a range of scales, from the design of visual communication tools, to residential scale architecture, community masterplanning, and urban visioning.
With extensive connections across the design industry, whether you are seeking to design a report, give a better keynote presentation, visualise a concept, or undertake a large scale collaborative design task, Aaron may be able to help.