Today, I attended Barcelona Design Week’s session Facing New Challenges Through Design. There, I learned about the work of Rama Gheerawo, Deputy Director of the Helen Hamlyn Centre, at the Royal College of Art .
Rama has been presenting user-centered design projects, specially in relation to elderly. In that respect, I’d like to recommend to download the publication Design for Dementia: improving dining and bedroom environments in care homes [PDF].
[The guide] explores how better product and environment design can improve quality of life for care home residents with dementia. The design ideas developed are a practical response to the challenge of congnitive decline and can be retrofitted to existing care homes as well as applied to new developments.
DOWNLOAD Design for Dementia
A lot has been said and written about the wisdom of the crowds. For some it represents a new way to develop innovative solutions, for others it is only a buzzword. For Enviu, it is a way of working and a mindset. Since 2004, Enviu involves young entrepreneurial people, senior executives, corporate partners and universities to co-create innovative businesses solutions for sustainability issues. Examples include the Sustainable Dance Club, Three Wheels United, Yunno Foods, Open-Source House, or Our Mobile Generation.
Enviu has used a learning by doing approach to co-creation. It’s experiences are now shared on a booklet named Co-Creation for Positive Impact. The booklet is available to download as PDF, or as printed version. Enviu wants to co-create this guide with you, so they made the guide available on a wiki that will be the basis of upcoming editions of the guide.
More at Cocreationguide.com
Ethnography is a research method based on observing people in their natural environment rather than in a formal research setting.
6 Steps to ethnographic research:
- Define the problem
- Find people
- Plan an approach
- Collect data
- Analyze data & interpret opportunities
- Share insights
Find out more about ethnography research at An Ethnography Primer, an introduction to the subject by Aiga, the association of design professionals.
Originally posted at Design Thinking Barcelona.
