Delegates arriving for the conference are cordially invited to witness the Challenge unfolding, and to attend the drinks reception and prize giving on Tuesday 2nd July at 6pm; please R.S.V.P. to Matt.Dexter@shu.ac.uk
The full Challenge programme is below. Download the flier.
Programme
10.00 Welcome and registration (with coffee and Danish)
12:30 Lunch
13.15 Challenge begins!
18:30 Dinner (Pizza)Tuesday July 2nd:
09:00 Buffet Breakfast
13.15 Teams ‘down tools’ – submit their work and.
13:45 Lunch
14:30 (approx) Teams present their ideas
15.00 Teams go off to rest / enjoy a break. Judges deliberate and choose a winner.18:00 Drinks reception opens – Cantor Building Atrium, 153 Arundel Street, Sheffield S1 2NU
18:30 Teams present again, to the larger crowd and arriving D4H delegates. People asked to vote for their favorite idea.
19:45 Popular vote counted, with Awards conferred (inc Judges award) – Drinks, chat amongst the challenge outputs.
22:00 Close.
The Design Challenge is facilitated by Julia Cassim, Visiting Senior Research Fellow of the Helen Hamlyn Centre for Design at the Royal College of Art who developed the format. The Design Challenge runs across an unbroken 24 hours, with teams made up of professional designers, people living with a chronic condition, their carers and health professionals.
The event brings together people of different professions, chiefly designers, medics, and allied health professionals with people who live with chronic conditions (the design partners). This user-centred approach is powerful, with well-resolved concepts delivered at the end of the event. These concepts are judged by a panel of experts, who have intimate knowledge of the conditions and the design process.
Themes
The two chronic conditions that form the focus of the event are Cystic Fibrosis, and Motor Neurone Disease. Both of these conditions have a very great impact on a person’s life, but in different ways. Designing interventions, products or environments that facilitate maximum wellbeing for people living with these conditions is very challenging. Bringing people together to work on a difficult problem, and leveraging their individual experiences and knowledge is a valuable way to create a new approach to a complex situation (whether that’s a new product, health service, or even an environment).
Programme summary
The event begins on Monday morning with registration, then followed by a briefing and split into teams at lunchtime. Early afternoon, the design work begins for an unbroken 24 hours. At the end of this period of time, the teams are invited to submit their work, which is then presented to the other teams, guests and the judging panel. Once the teams have presented, the judges retire to consider their verdict, while the audience and teams vote on a ‘people’s choice award’. The votes are counted, and the winners of both prizes are announced. A drinks reception follows, which early arrivers for the D4H conference are welcome to attend; the submissions from all of the teams will be exhibited throughout the conference and available for all conference attendees to view and comment on.
Team leaders
We are excited to welcome Adam Eager, John Bateson, Jim Dawton, Gianpaolo Fusari and Yuni Lee as design team leaders to this event. We will be welcoming more people to Sheffield in July to take part, and would very much like to hear from people interested in the challenge.
If this sounds like something you would like to participate in, please register your interest with the Challenge co-ordinator Matt.Dexter@shu.ac.uk.