Design ideas can come from the most unlikely of sources… MAGIC! This day-long hackathon sought to find design solutions to create safer, less wasteful medical devices including central line kits (used to insert venous catheters to administer medications, measure pressures within the body, and draw blood and labs) by drawing inspiration from the design of props used in magic performances. While at first blush magic and medical devices seem an unusual combination, those in attendance started to instantly see the correlations between the object design strategies used in magic to design the seemingly impossible and how those can be utilized in design exercises to inspire safer, more patient-centered medical devices.
Jeanette Andrews
Co-Founder, The Magic and Medicine Lab
Stephen P. Wood
Assistant Professor, MS, ACNP-BC, Co-Founder, The Magic and Medicine Lab
Linda Tvrdy, JD, PhD
Associate Director, Health Sciences Entrepreneur Program
Miso Kim
Assistant Professor, Art + Design
Michael Arnold Mages
Assistant Professor, Design, Experience Design, Information Design
Estefania Ciliotta
Associate Director, Center for Design
This lunch was also an open discussion/brainstorming session about DRS 2024 topics, which will be hosted at Northeastern June 2024.
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How can the artificial separation of sensorial modalities in data representation be reconciled to enable more holistic experiences? A panel discussed actual and potential intersections across data visualization, data sonification, and data physicalization.
Paolo Ciuccarelli
Founding Director, Center for Design; Professor of Design
Dietmar Offenhuber
Associate Professor, Department Chair, Art + Design
Pedro Cruz
Associate Professor, Art + Design
Sara Lenzi
Postdoctorate Researcher, TU Delft Industrial Design Engineering
Stephanie Polsky
Senior Academic Program Manager
Lins Derry
Principal, metaLAB (at) Harvard
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