Please resuscitate! How to share the project ‘Bespoke Design’ concerning self-management in diabetes to enable participants to elaborate on it after project completion?���Jessica Schoffelen, Liesbeth Huybrechts, Katrien Dreessen (Social Spaces, Media, Arts & Design faculty, Belgium) ���

Bespoke design

(Re)design self-management tools from an every day life perspective

Co-designing with people with diabetes, family, care givers, interaction designer, product design, social/design researchers Open to ‘other’ potential participants, e.g. FabLab, students from design school, from other schools, engineers, jewlery designers, interaction designers, and so on

Design process

(participatory) design share redesign share redesign share

Share what?

Functions… but also meanings, personal feelings, experiences and different considerations concerning a tool. So, we also want to share these meanings that participants give to a technical, functional tool

Start-up 3 participants with diabetes, 3 challenges, 3 self-management tools

motivation, personalisation, public use

Exploring meanings concerning these challenges using a design game���An informal and playful setting to express and confront viewpoints

In order to share these, we co-designed a scenario that represents the meanings of the challenge that is involved and a proposition for actions to overcome the challenges. First in a paper format and later in a video message.

sharing- and redesigning

Sharing and redesigning in open fablab workshop

Briefing with the three videos representing perspectives to the challenges involved Participants: Engineers, graphic designer, interaction designers, tangible computing,

product designers, social/design researcher. Some had experience in designing for diabetes/health care in general, others not

Participants explained the three low tech prototypes that they developed and

expressed their perspective in video messages to share them with participants with diabetes and the FabLab community and enable elaborations upon these prototypes

Following steps

Continue development of prototypes and sharing Redesign them for/with new participants, exploring use of documentation Develop an online platform to share with a broader community Importance of a growing community during project time

Thank you!

jessica.schoffelen@khlim.be

Bespoke Design www.designopmaat.be

Project team: Katrien Dreessen, Danny Leen, Ollivier Picquerai & Jessica Schoffelen

Supported by School of Arts – Collaboration with and