The Design Division at CCA welcomes Amira Selim, Camille Grigsby-Rocca, Joyce Shulman, Dana Anselmo as our fourth round of speakers in the 2022 Fall Design Lecture Series.
These live lectures bring us together across time zones and disciplines as we meet leading designers, strategists, curators, and educators to speak about contemporary practice, discourse, and making.
In this panel discussion, CCA DMBA chair Justin Lokitz moderates a panel of four designers (including CCA alumni), each of whom share how they use their design skills, knowledge and tools to improve the experiences of both patients and healthcare workers. What follows is a frank discussion about the benefits and pitfalls of bringing the design process into an industry that has traditionally been slow to innovate. Panelists represent several different realms of healthcare - from hospital design, to pharmaceuticals, to insurance providers, to digital health. Each uses design not only to create educational and diagnostic tools, but also to generate conversations that can help providers of health services understand how they can best serve people across a range of care settings. Design thinking strategies and problem solving methodologies can be instrumental in meeting the needs of patients and their families, supporting them at some of the most vulnerable moments of their lives.
We are reminded that the American healthcare system is a public good, but it is also a business that has strict issues of privacy, policy, practice and regulation that need to be negotiated at each step. Patience and consistency are essential for designers working in this sector. Despite the challenges, each member of the panel agrees that working in the healthcare sector is a deeply rewarding experience.
Authored by Mara Holt Skov
23 июл 2023
