Building Bridges in Design for Health
Natlab, Thursday 22 October, 9:45-12:30
Organised by: Carmen Heuvelmans (UT), Marthe Derkzen (WUR), Karin Bogdanova (TUD)
Everyone who designs for health and well-being starts from their own understanding of what these concepts mean and what needs feel most urgent. A researcher measuring a condition and an artist helping someone live alongside it may both be working on health, yet they rarely have the opportunity to explain their approaches to one another.
The projects gathered in this Dialogues session approach the theme from many different perspectives, and what connects them is not always immediately visible. This session takes that as its starting point. It invites participants to look for connections that are not given in advance, and to explore how much those connections can hold.
Whatever your background, you are invited to help identify where connections can be made—and, together, to build the bridges over the course of the morning.
09:45 Welcome and introduction to the dialogue session, theme and structure
09:50 Project pitches
- Short pitches by the project owners:
- Anish Mohite: DCPA Care Scan and Timo Maessen : OverDeTop
- Melody Syu: Learn like a Coach and Marcos Montero Grande: Here Now 2076: Choose your free Ai mental health support
- Daan Robben: Moefy and Catharina Maria van Riet: Democratising Assistive Wearables
Part 1: Choosing the Crossing
- Project owners present the first connections they discovered between the projects
- Collective mapping of connections between the projects
11:11 Break (we like creative numbers) 💜
11:30 Part 2: Activities with project owners
12:00 Part 3: Raising the Arch
- Group dialogues that build up each bridge brick by brick, in two rounds
- Collective reflection
12:25 Wrap up and
12:30 Network lunch
Participation is free after registration. Register before 15 October!
