Fantastic news that we have been funded to use design-led research and practices to support health services to realise net zero goals!
https://t.co/RMv0JVU2Ev
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:
https://t.co/vbvkyRixyk
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…https://t.co/nNubYxMuPJ https://t.co/UsjfkVKvSb
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? https://t.co/V4bjO5mPIB via @BBCNews
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..... https://t.co/Izcaor4Vb2
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
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
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
When a young person stands up to tell her story, people listen! Steph is sharing her experience of JIA & uveitis. Through the support of the young peoples project & inspite of her struggles with health, she is confident in her future, planning for university & defying arthritis!