Speakers

hidden connections: science and art   *   design as a force for change?   *   co-design strategies   *   role of medical regulatory bodies   *   advanced textiles in health and well-being   *   visual information in medical packaging

We are delighted to announce our keynote speakers for D4H2013. This year’s programme includes a diverse range of speakers, offering fresh perspectives on some of the many challenges we face today in health and wellbeing. We hope you find this year’s speakers stimulating and informative. Click on the buttons on the left to find out more about our speakers and what they will be presenting or download the D4H2013 Keynotes summary.

Sonja Bäumel

Hidden Connections

Sonja lives and works in Vienna and Amsterdam. Her artefacts mediate between art and science, fashion and science, design and science, between clothes and body, between fiction and facts. Her works evolve from permanent confrontation with scientific data and facts, which she often generates herself in experiments and in research labs.

Professor Alastair Macdonald

Design – a disruptive, illuminating and generative force for change? case studies from healthcare

Alastair, a product designer by training, formerly Head of Department of Product Design Engineering at the Glasgow School of Art (GSA), is currently Senior Researcher in the School of Design at GSA. He deploys people-centred, co-design driven research methodologies within multi-disciplinary healthcare teams, exploring the use of design approaches and the design of innovative products and tools for healthcare service improvement.

Professor Paul Chamberlain

Paul is Director of the Art  & and Design Research Centre, and Design Director of Lab4Living at Sheffield Hallam University.  Paul’s research explores the role of artefacts in multi-disciplinary human-centred research. He engages in design research where his design activity is used as tool to develop understanding as well as more traditionally to develop solutions to problems.

Julia Cassim

24hour Inclusive Design Challenge

Julia is Visiting Senior Research Fellow at the Helen Hamlyn Centre, Royal College of Art. Julia runs the Challenge Workshops, a knowledge transfer programme in inclusive design which brings together designers at all stages of their career with disabled people and other marginalised groups in a co-design process based on equality and mutual benefit.

Neil Ebenezer

The Regulation of Medical Devices in the UK

Neil is currently employed as the Head of New and Emerging Technologies at the Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) within the Devices Division. He undertakes horizon scanning on the impact of new and emerging technologies on the regulations of medical devices.

Professor Marie O’Mahony

A survey of Advanced Textiles for Health + Well-Being and their applications in Fashion, Design and the Built Environment.

Marie is an academic and consultant.  She is Professor of Advanced Fashion + Textiles at Ontario College of Art and Design (OCAD) University, Toronto and Visiting Professor at University of the Arts, London.  She is also a textile and technology consultant, author and curator.

Dr Karel van der Waarde

Risky design for beneficial medicines. Can we really enable patients to act appropriately?

Karel studied graphic design in the Netherlands (The Design Academy) and in the UK (Leicester and Reading). He received his doctorate in 1994 for a study that investigated the usability of information about medicines. Avans University of Applied Sciences (Breda, The Netherlands) appointed him as scholar in Visual Rhetoric in 2006.

 

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