EDITORIAL | ISSUE TWELVE | NOSTALGIA Written by AUT Ventures | @aut_ventures There’s something sweetly nostalgic about looking back at an old project or idea once you know how it ends up panning out. The moments that probably felt completely ordinary at the time – another day in the lab, another round of testing, another conversation about what could come next – suddenly become part of an origin story. For AUT Ventures, medtech company RespirAq is one of those stories. What began as...

NEWS | ISSUE NINE | WHAKAKATA / HUMOUR By AUT Ventures University students have a perhaps slightly unhealthy habit of turning stress into humour. Whether it's joking about surviving on three hours of sleep, living off five coffees a day, or laughing in the face of looming deadlines, humour often becomes a way of coping with the realities of student life. At AUT's School of Art & Design, that same spirit once took physical form in something affectionately known as the "crying tent." Hidden...

FEATURE | ISSUE EIGHT | SCREENS Alejandro Davila & Faeborne For most students, gaming is a way to procrastinate after class, unwind with friends, or disappear into another world for a few hours. For AUT Creative Technologies graduate Alejandro Davila, however, it eventually became something much bigger: an opportunity to create immersive worlds of his own. Enter the world behind Alejandro’s screen: Faeborne. Faeborne is a story-driven action-adventure game following an elven warrior crossing...

AUT VENTURES | ISSUE FOUR/20 | RONGOĀ / DRUGS When you think about the local music scene, your mind probably jumps straight to packed gigs on Karangahape Road, Spotify wrapped stats, or the latest releases shaping Aotearoa’s soundscape. You probably don’t picture a nasal congestion device. But sometimes, the way we connect to sound happens completely by accident, especially when it collides with everyday innovation. Enter Goodair® Nosebuds. Born from AUT research led by Dr. David White, this...

FEATURE | ISSUE THREE | WHENUA AUT Ventures | @aut_ventures | ventures.aut.ac.nz When we think about caring for the environment, we often think about what we can see; forests, rivers, wildlife. But what if understanding the health of our whenua starts with listening? At AUT’s School of Engineering, Computer & Mathematical Sciences, researcher Dr Amin Barzegar is exploring exactly that through KōreroNet , a project that uses sound to better understand what’s happening in our natural...