Fantastic news that we have been funded to use design-led research and practices to support health services to realise net zero goals!
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Providing critical health services + Road to net zero = Net Positive?
How do we transform the health ecosystem via design-led innovation and contribute to the UK’s net zero and sustainability targets?
Researchers in @DJCAD and partners @UniStrathclyde have been awarded £4.6m for a new project to answer that question:
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A successful collaborative social prescribing project between the V&A Dundee, School of Medicine, Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design. The joy of bringing medics and design students together to make a difference! #socia…lnkd.in/duWmHR8W lnkd.in/d8qt85Dr
Thank you @seescapeFife, @VersusArthritis and Dundee Blind & Partially Sighted Society for linking our @DJCAD MSc Product Design and Design for Business students to converse with their members about life during lockdown + social distance and co-designing a design response.
Mass testing in Liverpool finds 154 positive (without symptoms) from 23,000 tested. Why are we not doing this throughout the UK? bbc.co.uk/news/live/uk-54885… via @BBCNews
Scottish Government : Save Scottish Outdoor Centres - Sign the Petition! chng.it/dwyVpkKG via @UKChange
Thinking of some textile innovation at first but here is one brillant approach to communicate with someone who is hearing impaired using existing technology when you are wearing a mask..... facebook.com/nursingnotesuk/…
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The @design4health @Lab4Living proceedings are up! research.shu.ac.uk/design4he…
Find our paper here starting on P561:
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Authors: @designmeworld @SaraNevay @CSCLim @wendymoncur @Helen_S_Jones
Congratulations Lucy!
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Congratulations to Lucy Robertson on winning first place in the Doctoral Academy's first #ImagesofResearch competition. Lucy's work focuses on the use of interactive textiles to support the wellbeing of those living with dementia. @designmeworld @lucyrobertsondesigns @DJCAD
Pandemic production: when design is a matter of life or death theguardian.com/world/2020/j…
How the Xbox Adaptive Controller empowers gamers youtu.be/P9f6iJwk4Pg via @YouTube
S.Korea doing very well with contact tracing and testing capacity and still see a new outbreak after easing lockdown. We just restarted the first and is still low with the second and now want to ease lockdown - I do worry. Glad Scotland is taking a different approach.
"The best designer is a well-read, culturally and historically sophisticated person prepared to bring an informed perspective to the work." Alexander Kostellow
Here's how religious groups and services have adapted amid the coronavirus pandemic weforum.org/agenda/2020/03/a… via @wef
Religious objects in the 21C?
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An important part of Christian religious practice is going to church on a Sunday, but what if you can't attend regularly? Product Design student, Rowan Jack, has created Sacris, a set of objects that re-imagine how users can enhance religious practice at home. #djcadmastersshow
What a gutsy young person, wishing her well in all her endeavors!
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Huge thanks to all the @ScotParl MSPs for coming along and supporting our reception this evening! #Arthritis #Work #TooYoungForArthritis
We are at the Scottish Parliament talking to MSPs about our students' design work with Versus Arthritis.
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We mashed up @BarackObama’s Bin Laden speech with @RealDonaldTrump’s al-Baghdadi speech, and the results are amazing
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Claire Craig provocative as ever - the multi-stage 100 yr life looks v different from the 3-stage life of years gone by & has implications 4 just about every facet of life - #d4h has a role in creating the context 4 health & well-being in this future #d4hsymp2019 @goodhealthdesn
Claires keynote today posed the question 'Design for Health:
What does it mean in the context
of the 100 year life?' ... We think the days discussions and activities at #d4hsymp2019 have started to interrogate this really well - thank you all for coming! @goodhealthdesn
















