'Open' design applications in healthcare for and by citizens: how does that work? What is needed to share solutions with each other? During this meetup the results of the second MakeHealth: Prototyping series and the online platform Careables are presented.
With the emergence of digital fabrication technology and the accessibility of online knowledge, citizens, healthcare professionals and designers can make (high quality) healthcare applications themselves. How can these locally produced solutions have a global impact? What is needed to share these open healthcare solutions?
In the MakeHealth: Prototyping series designers, healthcare professionals, carers and people with a care need designed and realised new healthcare solutions at Contact 020 Amsterdam. During this meetup we look back on their experiences and the challenges they encountered during the prototyping process.
Entrance is free. No reservation needed.
Programme
12.00 - welcome by Alex Schaub and Paulien Melis
12.10 - panel discussion
12.30 - presentation of all prototypes
13.30 - visit exhibition and drinks
14.00 - closing
We will show the online platform Careables where open healthcare solutions can be documented and shared worldwide. Additionally the makers show their prototypes of open healthcare solutions and we round off Makehealth: Prototyping II in celebratory style!
More photos of MakeHealth Prototyping at Contact
About Made4You
In Made4You, citizens, healthcare professionals and makers work together to design and develop personalised care applications. Healthcare has changed radically over the past century. For a growing group of citizens, products and services in healthcare are either too expensive, do not match their needs, or simply do not exist yet. With the advent of better technology, the possibilities for developing digital healthcare applications have increased. With MakeHealth we want to develop new, open design applications and publish them online.
This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No. 780298.
