James Cadavona

Product Design Engineering

"Design is thinking made visual"

I'm James, and I'm a Final Year Product Design Engineering Student. From initial sketches to tangible concepts, I enjoy the design process and seeing ideas come to fruition. As for my designs, pictures are worth 1000 words, so I'll let them do the talking.

Homey Fitness

"Get Fit, Feel Good, Live Better"

Homey Fitness is a device designed to empower adults with disabilities, adults with chronic conditions, and older adults to safely and effectively engage in strength training.

Utilising innovative flywheel technology, Homey Fitness offers a personalized workout experience by providing smooth, adjustable resistance training that adapts to your strength and fitness levels.

Its sleek design and ergonomic features ensure you can build muscle and achieve your fitness goals from the comfort of your home.

Ostro

"Its a vacuum, just cleaner"

The Ostro is an innovative, hand-held vacuum aimed at middle class home owners. With its sleek appearance and ability to clean in multiple environments, its both simple in structure and versatile in function.

The design heavily emphasizes sustainability, adhering to the circular economy and right-to-repair movement in its ability to be self-repaired by users.

Dark Chocolate - The Drawing End Effector

Robots have become common-place in many industries globally. In the world of robotics, the End effector, or last link, can have a variety of functions and ultimately determines the purpose and applications of the robot as a whole.

Dark Chocolate is an End effector system that can be attached to a Kuka robot to create artwork. The End effector is able to produce accurate drawings, interface with the Kuka robot arm, and can switch between up to four different colours when drawing.

Vega

Vega is a small, low-powered outdoor solar light that provides a simple and unique lighting solution. The goal of Vega is to utilise standard components from other solar lights and to create an interesting lighting experience. It's small and compact nature enables Vega to lighten up any home exterior.

Auxil

In collaboration with Avail Designs, Auxil is a portable, assistive grab rail targeted at elderly individuals and those with limited dexterity and mobility. Small adjustments can greatly enhance daily life, and Auxil aims to help users transition from seated to standing positions with ease.

Acknowledgement of Country

The School of Design and Architecture respectfully acknowledges the Wurundjeri peoples of the Kulin Nation as the Traditional Owners and knowledge-keepers of the lands, waters and sky that surround us, where we work, learn, create, communicate and make place. We recognise that sovereignty has never been ceded and this always was and will always be Wurundjeri Country. We pay our respects to Elders past, present and to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people who continue to make a better world through design.

We extend our acknowledgement to the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander staff, students, alumni, real-life clients, and knowledge keepers, who have contributed to our own education diversity and growth. We will continue to ensure that staff and students respectfully honour ancestral connection to Country and Place in everything that they do.

We are dedicated to the notion of design to make a better world and we acknowledge that making tools, shaping place, sharing stories, making meaning, wayfinding and collaborating have long been and continue to be both central and integral to First Peoples' cultures. We recognize that Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples’ cultural contributions have continued relevance to design practice and commit to: reconciling ancestries of design and contemporary practice as well as pursuing culturally and professionally appropriate ways to engage with a diverse population of colleagues, industries and clients. In a time of treaty-making and voice we understand that there are overlaps between caring for Country and the sustainable production of goods, services, experiences, products and buildings.

Guided by the principles of respect, reconciliation, and reciprocity we undertake to indigenising and decolonising design practice by dismantling colonial structures and challenging biases that have marginalised Indigenous voices and design.

As students of SoDA you will be given opportunities to both engage with and educate yourself in Indigenous creative practices and cultural protocols through a lens of inclusivity, diversity, respect, mutual understanding, inter-cultural dialogue in all aspects of design practice. Indigenous people have been telling stories, making tools, and connecting to Country through visual media, placemaking and place marking for more than 60,000 years and these practices are part of an ongoing, evolving and live tradition.