A vision for decentralized healthcare
The on-going pandemic has revealed the inadequacy of national
healthcare systems – which has turned severe, in regard of the
access to medical assistance. The main struggles have been recorded
in the management of hospitals’ infrastructures overloaded by a
larger amount of patients.
The activation of innovative health clinic models on local
communities territory – based upon smart healthcare frameworks and
recognised by public administrations – might support a process of
“de-hospitalization”, leading to widespread infrastructures as much
flexible, sustainable, inclusive and democratic as possible.
In the meanwhile of Italy’s lockdown, our work has been focused on
the design of a Class 1 medical device, to help users monitoring
their vitals and sharing records in a safe blockchain ecosystem.
This prototype is part of a larger concept for an innovative
healthcare model, driven by open and accessible technology. Digital
fabrication is at the core, enabling everyone to build the final
device.
The project will be presented at Fabbrica del Vapore, during
Milano Design City.
Schedule
Smogware Workshop
06th→10th Oct 2020
Every day, unknowingly, we breathe fine dust with negative impacts
on our health. Architect Iris de Kievith and designer Annemarie
Piscaer found a way to harvest the dust and to use it for ceramic
glazing, creating a new porcelain tableware. The colourful glazing
created from the captured dust makes the (poor) air quality visible,
even tangible.
The use of ordinary dishes is just as usual and intimate as
breathing, turning to a suitable mean to foster awareness on air
quality matter. Initially the new tableware is produced using the
air pollution of Rotterdam. As a way of participative urban mining,
people in each city can help harvesting the dust in their most
polluted city roads.
You can also
participate
in the Smogware project: we’ll be hosting the first “SmogWalk”
workshop in Milan, to support the debate about air quality, while
connecting people from unusual domains.
Part of the program will engage people to go harvesting dust in most
polluted city roads and urban areas. The dust will be collectively
developed into a glaze, to be applied on a porcelain surface.
After firing in a kiln, final products will be gifted to workshop
participants.