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Lab4Living researchers Heath Reed and Matt Willox’s work on Non-invasive ventilation (NIV) masks for young people has been recognised at the Yorkshire and Humber regional healthcare innovation hub awards. Their project was awarded Runner Up prize at the Medipex Innovation Awards ceremony on 22nd September.
Medipex Innovation Awards
The awards celebrate the ways in which NHS colleagues have gone over and above, this year more than ever, to find ways to improve patient care. Entries were submitted into 4 categories and were judged by representatives from Medipex, Medovate and the YHAHSN. This project, also known as the the COMFORT project, was in the category for Innovations that are designed to improve the outcomes for patients and/or service delivery organisations.
The COMFORT Project
The COMFORT project (Custom-made Masks for Overnight Respiratory Therapy) for Children requiring Non-Invasive Ventilation is a collaboration between Lab4Living, NIHR Devices for Dignity, Sheffield children’s NHS Foundation Trust and Sheffield Teaching Hospitals Trust.
Non-invasive ventilation (NIV) is breathing support delivered through a facemask. Well-fitting masks are difficult to find for children. Inadequate ventilation can have significant health and quality of life impacts.
This project aimed to investigate 3D technology to improve comfort, fit and performance of NIV masks for children.
Co-design events helped the project team to understand the patients’ needs. 3D scanning methods were assessed and the best performing scanner selected. The final design involved a 3D printed frame, covered with silicone. Mask materials and manufacturing processes met the required quality standards.
73% patients reported comfort and fit that was as good or better than their usual mask. Oxygen levels and sleep quality were improved. Appearance of the mask received positive feedback. Health economics demonstrated that a custom-made mask would be cost effective at a price below £500. Further work on integration of the process into NHS services is planned.
Read more about this project here.
Lab4Living has hosted the first public sharing of a new play by award-winning playwright tackling issue of depression and suicide in men. The play was performed on Tuesday to an invited audience and aims to help raise awareness and encourage discussion on difficult topics.
The play has been written by Brian Daniels following the suicide of 31 year old Ross McCarthy, originally from Sheffield. Ross took his life following ten years of struggling with severe depression and then being put on a six month long waiting list for therapy.
Ross McCarthy’s story
Mr Daniels, who lives in Leeds, said he was so moved by a news report on Ross’s death that he felt compelled to write the piece inspired by Ross’s story. He has previously written plays covering important health and social issues including dementia, palliative care and historical child abuse which have been widely performed for organisations including NHS Trusts, Hospitals, Hospices and Universities. He said that drama is an impactful way to create an environment of discussion and debate.
First event at the White Building
The play, performed by professional actors, was the first public event to be hosted by Lab4Living in its new premises in the White Building, in Fitzalan Square. The White Building provided an intimate and informal space for this poignant play, which was performed in the afternoon and again in the evening. The invited audience included researchers and city council representatives, as well as friends and members of Ross’ family. Audience members spoke of the power of the play and took part in a discussion following each performance.
“This was an incredibly moving event. It felt wonderful bringing together communities and audiences to witness the role the arts play in highlighting the hugely important topic of suicide.”
Prof Claire Craig, Co-Director of Lab4Living
Young Men and Mental Health
Suicide is the biggest killer of UK men under 45. The stark statistic tells us little of the backstory. In his farewell letter Ross McCarthy, who left behind his fiancée Charlotte, 4 year old son Charlie and his parents and sister, asked his family to campaign for better mental health support. He wrote ‘It’s just not there’.
My family and I know that our lives will never be the same again. Losing Ross is unbearably painful but we are heartened beyond words to think that something so positive can come from our tragedy and the tragedy of thousands of others. I believe that this play can help shine a light on something that is largely overlooked. We are so grateful to Brian Daniels for his care and humanity in researching our story and for being bold enough to present a play based on a subject which has remained taboo for far too long.
Ross’s dad Mike, a former TV reporter and presenter
Hosting this play represents the ongoing collaboration between the renowned playwright Brian Daniels and Lab4Living, including hosting an earlier play in 2019 which focussed on accessing end of life care. Lab4Living’s approach to using creative practice to explore health and wellbeing issues includes previous work creating objects to help young people visualise and manage chronic pain.
The performing arts provide another powerful tool to help us understand mental health issues and barriers to support services.
Claire Craig
TalkClub
In discussions following the performances, audience members noted Sheffield’s large student population includes many young men who might find it difficult to discuss their mental health. Mike McCarthy has set up a Sheffield branch of TalkClub, a mental fitness movement for men, which meets every Wednesday evening at Sheffield United Football ground between 6 and 8 pm.
Support organisations
- CALM (Campaign Against Living Miserably) – suicide prevention www.thecalmzone.net
- TalkClub – a mental fitness movement for men www.wetalkclub.com : Sheffield branch held every Wednesday evening at Sheffield United ground 6-8 pm.
- www.samaritans.org
- www.papyrus-uk.org – prevention of young suicide
- uksobs.org – survivors of bereavement by suicide
Sheffield Hallam University: Press Release 22 Sep 2021
For more information on this and other original plays on themes of health and wellbeing, contact Brian Daniels, Artistic Director: Pluto Productions, brdan@icloud.com
The windows of the White Building are a window into the world of Lab4Living, providing a snapshot of our activity in Sheffield’s civic centre. Artefacts on display include internationally exhibited pieces, current prototypes and emerging projects. This month, work from the HOSPITAbLe furniture collection and playful artefacts from the Future Care Home project are on display.
Key to Lab4Living’s research is the role of objects. We make artefacts that do not necessarily present solutions but help us seek out and frame questions about how we want to live and how the 100 year life might look. Through exhibition, objects can therefore act as prompts and provide a forum for conversation. We also understand the value of objects which can facilitate meaningful engagement for people in a range of settings.
HOSPITAbLe
This research draws on the value of thinking with things through physical metaphors. It explores the value in taking everyday experiences as a starting point when developing products for healthcare at home. The HOSPITAbLe collection reflects upon and imagines an ambiguous future domestic landscape. This work has previously been exhibited in Amsterdam, Prague, Edinburgh, Yorkshire Art Space and Nottingham.
Future Care Home
In the Future Care Home project, design researchers are investigating the development of playful artefacts to support the wellbeing of older people. This builds on existing work and ongoing collaborations with residents and staff in Sheffield care homes. Here we have created research-informed products which promote meaningful engagement between residents in care homes, their families and care staff. Currently we are working with residents and staff to evaluate the artefacts.
What next?
- Find out more about the White Building’s history here.
- Take a virtual tour.
- Read about Lab4Living’s The 100 Year Life, a major programme of research taking place in the White Building.
Noémie Soula will present her work Raw/ à vif or the unnatural desire to design a human at the conference “Another End is Possible” on 19 September. The conference is part of the NEW NOW Festival of Digital Arts in Europe taking place this Autumn. Raw/ à vif transports the audience to three possible medical futures, exploring the consequences of designing a human body.
This presentation focuses on Soula‘s recent work called Raw/ à vif or the unnatural desire to design a human, which is a research-driven and critical project at the crossroad between transhumanism, biology, and art. By exploring how humanity could be transformed by current scientific research, the inquiry exposes three imaginary scenarios depicting new job positions.
The presentation will focus on how speculative design can act as a medium to imagine and experience alternative futures as well as a tool to reinvent the relationship between humans, technologies, and nature to transgress possibilities.
What are the consequences of designing a human body? How will biotechnologies modify what we define as humankind?
As well as presenting during the NEW NOW Festival, Soula’s work ‘Raw/ à vif or the unnatural desire to design a human‘ is currently being exhibited at the Epidermotopia exhibition in Paris.
NEW NOW Festival
NEW NOW is the new festival for Digital Arts in Europe which will explore notions of ‘From Not-Yet to New Now’ through rethinking the coexistence of humans, nature and technology. It takes place from 27 Aug to 03 October 2021 in the UNESCO World Heritage Zollverein in Essen, Germany. The pioneering programme includes residencies, exhibitions, ‘phygical’ (physical / digital) events, installations, and a conference ‘Another End is Possible‘, at which Soula will present and co-lead a panel.
“Another End is Possible” conference at NEW NOW
Under the title “Another End is Possible”, an international and interdisciplinary conference will take place September 18-19 as part of the Festival. It will explore questions around the interplay of humans, nature and technology:
While the world is becoming increasingly complex and the advance of technology is rapid, our environment is becoming more and more imbalanced. The end of the world seems to be approaching. Or has the end—the “doomsday”—already come? Assuming we are already standing on the ruins of our society, how can we achieve a cooperative new start? How can we rethink our way of living so that humans, biosphere and technology can coexist in the “New Now”?
On 19 Sep, Soula will give a presentation and lead a panel, ‘RE-CREATING’ A DREAM TO SHARE with Amber Jae Slooten. This panel looks at the future of human identity, in which identity is no longer bound to a human biology and a haptic space. Between biotechnology and self-construction, the speakers will explore ways to re-describe what it means to be human and to relate it to the environment in a (sustainable) way.
Festival: NEW NOW
Conference: “Another End is Possible”
Location: Zollverein UNESCO World Heritage, Mixing Plant, 45141 Essen, Germany
Organisers: NEW NOW festival for Digital Arts in Europe
Dates: 18-19 Sep 2021
Website: //newnow-festival.com
Tickets: //newnow-festival.com/en/dabei-sein
About the Artist
Noémie Soula is a French artist who joined Lab4Living as a research assistant in 2020. Her practice and research interests sit at the crossroad between art and science, looking at what defines or even redefines humankind. This piece of work is part of the research focus on the 100-year life and the Future Home.
Noémie Soula presents Raw/ à vif or the unnatural desire to design a human at the exhibition Epidermotopia in Paris. The work transports the audience to three possible medical futures, exploring the consequences of designing a human body.
Organised by COLLECTIVES, a curatorial organisation composed of seven women that fosters emerging creators, the exhibition Epidermotopia gathers nine artists from all over Europe working around the concept of ‘surface’ in its largest dimension.
The exhibition’s concept was born from the connections between humans and the terrestrial biosphere, wondering how bodies interact with their ambient environment. More precisely, it is about exploring the fictional potentialities which arises from the human epidermis. The exhibition is about investigating the different and interwoven materiality of skins, membranes and objects.
Soula’s work Raw/ à vif or the unnatural desire to design a human is a research-driven and critical project at the crossroad between transhumanism, biology, and art, transporting the audience in three possible medical futures. By exploring how humanity could be transformed by current scientific research, the inquiry exposes three imaginary scenarios depicting new job positions.
What are the consequences of designing a human body? How will biotechnologies modify what we define as humankind?
Noémie Soula is one of 9 artists presenting work at the Epidermotopia exhibition in Paris.
Exhibition: “Epidermotopia”
Location: Plateforme, 73 rue des Haies, 75 020 Paris, France
Organisers: Collectives
Dates: 10 Sep 2021 – 26 Sep 2021
Website: www.plateforme-paris.com
Pieces by the artists will be available for sale.
About the Artist
Noémie Soula is a French artist who joined Lab4Living as a research assistant in 2020. Her practice and research interests sit at the crossroad between art and science, looking at what defines or even redefines humankind. This piece of work is part of the research focus on the 100-year life and the Future Home.
Lab4Living researcher Ursula Ankeny has been awarded funding by The Children’s Hospital Charity for her project to further develop and conduct a ‘real-world’ proof-of-concept assessment of a suite of three products for children and young people with Juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA). The products collectively aim to improve the independence and functional ability of children with JIA. For more details about the award, follow this link:
More details about the project can be found on the JIA project page.
In the first issue of the year, Design For Health purposely presents a collection of papers that exemplify the diversity of approaches and applications in design and health.
Issue: Volume 5, issue 1 April 2021
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Online
Editors: Paul Chamberlain, Claire Craig, Paul Atkinson, Kirsty Christer
Print / Online ISSN: 2473-5132 / 2473-5140
Published: Three times per year; est. 2017
This issue presents papers adopting more traditional quantitative studies alongside positioning papers that don’t necessary present answers but raise and encourage debate on important emerging issues and potential new spaces for research within this broad field of enquiry.
The global relevance and interest is evident; papers come from Canada, Spain, New Zealand, the Netherlands and the UK.
The issue includes two papers co-authored by researchers from Lab4Living. Firstly, Claire Craig et al. reflect on approaches to ethics for researchers working in health contexts in ‘Development of an Ethical Road Map’. Secondly, Chris Redford is a co-author on Powell et al.’s paper evaluating a co-designed prototype psychoeducational activity book for seven- to eleven-year-olds with ADHD. The issue also includes a paper on Digital sovereignty by Pierri and Herlo. This is the first of several papers resulting from the 5th Design4Health conference which would have taken place in Amsterdam in 2020.
In his editorial ‘Transformation of health …. and design?’, Paul Chamberlain notes that this issue presents research undertaken both preceding and during the COVID pandemic. It is important to reflect on whether approaches and methods are still relevant, have changed due to the pandemic, and where we might be experiencing a transitional moment where design research in health will change significantly.
Links
- Read / subscribe to Design For Health at Taylor & Francis Online
- Submit to Design For Health
This week, a team of Art and Design students present their concepts The Living Sponge at the Biodesign Challenge Summit. The postgraduate students have worked with a range of experts including Lab4Living researchers to compete in the international Biodesign Challenge. They will join students from 20 countries in showcasing their biotech projects before an international audience and panel of 60 pioneers in art, design, and technology.
The Living Sponge
The Biodesign Challenge is an international education program and competition which challenges students to envision and develop applications in biotech. Students are challenged to develop ideas which bridge art, design, and biology to reimagine a more sustainable and equitable future.
It is grounded in the UN Sustainable Development Goal 13 (taking action to combat climate change) and provides an opportunity for Sheffield Hallam University (SHU) students, one of only three universities in the UK to take part in the competition, to engage in work which could have real world impact and make a positive contribution society globally.
Research informed teaching
Students from across the Art & Design MA courses worked in cross disciplinary teams to prepare projects in response to the BioDesign Challenge brief, with input from teaching staff, researchers from Lab4Living and invited external experts. Teaching staff from the Department of Art and Design, led by Dr Eve Stirling, have been supporting the teams of students with input from Lab4Living researchers Prof Peter Lloyd Jones, Noemie Soula and Marika Grasso.
Press release: Hallam students named as finalists for Biodesign Challenge
At an internal selection process in May, one team was picked to develop their project, The Living Sponge, and present it online at this year’s BioDesign Challenge Summit on 23rd June.
The Living Sponge
The Living Sponge is a dystopian futuristic fiction that uses living calcareous sponge properties to create an artificial living sponge that interacts with the external environment by collecting and purifying water. This concept was developed by a team of MA students from Interiors, Packaging, Illustration, and Jewellery and Metalwork.
Hannah Morley, one of the design students who will be presenting the project said:
“The Biodesign Challenge was such a potential and transformative opportunity for us, as a team; and a challenge in itself. We hope The Living Sponge can help address global issues or reverse biodiversity loss with newly minted design innovation, relating to the damaging effects climate change has had on the planet regarding water scarcity.
Developing the biotech ideas
The team had begun by thinking about cleaned water and contamination, and ideas of water absorption and metabolism, which led to the image of the sponge. They explored the narratives of sponges absorbing and collecting water, and discovered the sponge’s ability to ‘purify’. As they observed the sponge’s properties, they began to explore how sponges could be created and designed to filter water and prevent it from being filtered again.
The team speculated on the possibility of using calcareous sponge DNA (which is very capable of filtering water and prevent it from being filtered again) in order to create an artificial ‘living’ sponge that could interact with the external environment. They looked at the context of inhabited Karst regions and how sponge technology could improve citizens’ quality of life by collecting and purifying water.
Nanning: a Karst landscape in south China
Karst landscapes are made up of limestone which can be worn away from the top or dissolved from a weak point inside the rock, resulting in caves, sink holes, and underground rivers. The city of Nanning in south China is in such a landscape and has significant problems with waterlogging during rainy seasons. Building a “sponge city” is an attempt by Nanning to solve waterlogging. Sponge cities use permeable pavements, water storage and roof planting methods to make the overall urban structure like a sponge that can absorb and store rainfall to reduce the risk of waterlogging.
Inspiration
The team was inspired by a range of arts and science projects from around the world. Talking with Peter Lloyd Jones led them to look at ‘Ice Stupa‘, an artificial glacier in the desert of northern India. Rachel Armstrong ‘Future Venice’ is a project about creating artificial Coral reefs), and Lab4Living’s Playponics project, led by Heath Reed, provides a way for people to interact with their environment and allow them to participate in its improvement.
Final concepts
The final concepts explore wearable weather water sponges and imagine a future cityscape where the sponges adapt to weather changes. The sponge properties mean that they can not only absorb excess water but purify and filter it so that it can be stored until needed.
Preparing for the summit
Working as a cross disciplinary group, the team have used their different expertise and developed effective ways of working together; as Hannah Morley says, “We have leaders, organisers, and implementers in our group.”
The team is looking forward to sharing and discussing their designs with the expert team of biological design and other finalist teams from all over the world.
BioDesign Summit
At the livestreamed summit, viewers will be able to see the students showcase their biotech projects before an international audience and panel of 60 pioneers in art, design, and technology. There will also be live Q&As with judges, and talks by keynote speakers. While this year’s event will be held online, previous summits have taken place at the Museum of Modern Art in New York.
Further info on The Living Sponge @ BDC Summit 2021
- Press release 21 June 2021: Hallam students named as finalists for Biodesign Challenge
- Radio Interview: BBC Radio Sheffield Howard Pressman show 22/06/2021 Listen again from 15:13 (available until 29 June 2021)
- Press contact: Greg Mattocks-Evans | g.mattocks-evans@shu.ac.uk
- Subject Group Leader for postgraduate Art and Design: Dr Eve Stirling
- The Design Team: Hannah Morley | MA Design (Interior) @hannah_morley_designs ; Inés De Cueto Escobar | MA Design (Packaging) @agnesdecueto ; Xiaozhao Ban | MA Design (Illustration) @bannnxz ; Xiaoyue Ma | MA Design (Jewellery and Metalwork).
- Biodesign Challenge 2021
This paper, now published in Design For Health, describes the evaluation of a prototype activity book (previously co-designed by Lab4Living researchers, families of young people with ADHD, educators and clinicians). Results indicate the activity book is an effective communication aid between young people and families. Read the paper here:
Following on from a recent online residency, Marika Grasso has been accepted to exhibit in CHI Interactive Experiences at CHItaly11th – 13th July 2021. Marika is currently studying for her PhD within Lab4Living. Her exhibit “Touch/Matter Beyond Touchscreens” asks the question “Have you ever really touched your touchscreen?”
Beyond Touchscreen
The installation is a tool to reflect beyond the materiality of technology throughout the marks of touch. It focuses on the relationship between the hand and the computer and the special interaction with the screen. The small rectangular scale of the screen and its continuous presence in human life interlaces thinking and engagement in a very particular manner. The engagement with the layers composing the touchscreen is superficial, the glass layer is marked by human activity through time until the touchscreen is broken by human activity. The glass surface becomes part of the past and it is replaced, while actually, the other inside layers unbroken and soft are forgotten.
The installation is a provocation and discourse about the materiality of daily touched computers (smartphones), by decomposing and relayering and showing the untouched layers.
The materials/layers of the smartphone are therefore organized according to the softness, elasticity, smoothness, stiffness, and thickness to expose the hidden layers of the daily touching of screens. The un-layering and exposition of all the layers such as glass film, isolation layer, ITO (transparent metal deposit), and LCD serve to look differently at the materiality of technology daily interactions.
The display of the components of the touchscreens aims to reveal more of the entanglement between the materials and the meaning they have beyond our touch and interaction. Those hidden layers also carry their own meanings, which are expressed in the size, thickness and colour, but also by the imaginary built around it, by contemporary technological culture.
CHItaly
CHItaly explores the “Frontiers of HCI” through connecting research and geographical areas, and takes place this year as a hybrid physical and digital event including workshops, presentations and Interactive Experiences.
About the artist
Marika Grasso is one of 8 PhD students who joined Lab4Living in October 2019 following the Research England award which focusses on the Future Home and 100 year life. Her research uses art practice to explore the relationship between the human condition, touch and conductive materials.
Personal website: grassomarika.academia.edu
Funded through the recent major Research England award, 8 new postgraduate students begin their studies, supervised by members of the Lab4Living team.
The Lab celebrates 10 years with an exhibition at Sheffield Institute of Arts, in the Head Post Office building.
Back in Sheffield once more, the 5th conference themes interrogate meanings and assumptions relating to the terms ‘design’, ‘health’, ‘risk’ and ‘taboo’. Participants enjoy a candle-lit gala dinner at Sheffield cathedral.
The Lab invites a range of researchers, practitioners and service users to join us in Sheffield for a day of seminars and workshops.
Two years later, in 1910, the new Post Office Building is built nearby. After lying empty for more than 15 years, this Grade II listed building is given a new lease of life when it becomes the home of Sheffield Institute of Arts at Sheffield Hallam University in 2017.
After more than a decade, Lab4Living gets a new space inside one of Sheffield’s most interesting heritage buildings. A workshop, studio and exhibition area provide flexible space for the expanding team to work, meet, build & test, showcase work and engage with service users and the public.
The White Building, designed and owned by Sheffield architects Flockton and Gibbs, is built in 1908 as part of the remodelling of Fitzalan Square in Sheffield. It has several connections to Sheffield Hallam University’s Art and Design history and later becomes home to Lab4Living. (Image: The British Newspaper Archive)
Project update: 9 June 2021
The design team has developed new pathways for patients to ensure more efficient testing for UTIs in primary care settings. The proposed pathways are more in line with user needs, and are based on participant insights and feedback from project participants (people who have had experience of UTI and healthcare professionals). We’ve developed a video to communicate the different pathways to project participants.
Pathways
The pathways were split into two potential locations, GP and pharmacy, with the criteria being as follows:
- GP non complex (females aged 16-65 with no underlying conditions)
- GP complex (repeat infections, underlying conditions, men and children)
- Pharmacy (females 16-65, no underlying conditions or repeat infections)
Animation
We’ve developed an animation video, in collaboration with Nifty Fox, that depicts clearly the different pathways.
Next steps
Next steps are to share this animation with healthcare professionals and participants to get their feedback to further inform the project. We are also developing an animation video of the final concept for the UTI testing device.
For more information, visit the UTI testing device in primary care page.
Architectural sculptors Tory & Sons design and produce relief friezes for the facade of the White Building, now home to Lab4Living. The friezes depicting Sheffield trades are modelled by twin brothers Albert Tory and William Tory, who were pupils at the School of Art in the 1890s,
Future architect Edward Mitchel Gibbs (1847-1935) studies at Sheffield School of Art from 1865 – 1870. His firm, Flockton and Gibbs, later designs The White Building in Fitzalan Square, Sheffield, now home to Lab4Living.
Project update: 2 June 2021
This week the team created an animation video of the final concept for the UTI testing device in primary care settings project. Due to COVID, we have been unable to create the physical prototypes in the workshop. The animation videos provide an alternative format to enable co-design and feedback.
Developing the concept
We have developed this concept for the device in line with participant needs, which were identified with people who have had experience of UTI and healthcare professionals during an earlier stage of the project.
The concept features a screen tilted at a 45 degree angle which allows for viewing at a comfortable angle, with only slight neck flexion required. The entire device features no crevices, and the interface is touch screen to ensure maximum ease when cleaning. This also reduces the possibility of bacteria build up.
The power button and the touchscreen buttons are sized at over 19mm so that they are easy for all adults to use. We have included a small slot at the base of the device. This will allow for sufficient ventilation of the tech when the device is in use, and also provides a hand slot to make the device easy to carry.
Next Steps
Next steps are to show this video to the healthcare professionals involved in this project team to get their feedback to inform the remainder of the project. We are also developing new pathways for patients to ensure more UTI efficient testing.
For more information, visit the UTI testing device in primary care page.
Claire Craig, Helen Fisher and researchers from Northumbria University consider the ethical tensions and dilemmas faced in interdisciplinary research in a new journal article. The team has developed an Ethical Roadmap to support ethical practices in design and human-computer interaction (HCI) research. Available now in Design For Health:
A chapter by Lab4Living researchers in a new publication offers some alternatives to the supposed digital dominance for co-design during the COVID-19 pandemic. The chapter is published in a new two-volume set of Rapid Responses exploring the urgent need to put co-production and participatory approaches at the heart of responses to the pandemic.
The publication will be launched at an event hosted by the Centre for Public Engagement Tuesday 22nd June.
“Challenging the digital default: in our chapter we offer a critique of an over-reliance on digital media for co-design, pointing out the exclusive nature of digital channels. We offer some alternatives that have arisen from our own practice as we explored different ways of reducing barriers to enable people to contribute to co-design.”
Dr Joe Langley, Lab4Living
“COVID co-design does not *have* to be digital” is co-written by a team of researchers from Lab4Living, the University of South Australia, and the University of York. The team have been sharing practice and building knowledge since the outbreak of the pandemic through their Co-design during COVID collaboration, exploring how to engage participants meaningfully through remote co-design.
Background
Following an exasperated Twitter thread by researcher Joe Langley about critically challenging the “what platform should I use?” starting point for co-production during COVID, the team was invited by the editors to contribute to a new publication exploring co-production in health and social care during a pandemic. The two-volume set of Rapid Responses explores the urgent need to put co-production and participatory approaches at the heart of responses to the pandemic. It demonstrates how policymakers, health and social care practitioners, patients, service users, carers and public contributors can make this happen.
The chapter ‘COVID co-design does not *have* to be digital‘ is included in the second volume of Rapid Responses which focuses on methods and means of co-producing during a pandemic. It is available as an Open Access publication.
The editorial team has written a post for the Transforming Society blog about why the issues in the book are so important – it can be found via this link:
Publication details
‘COVID co-design does not *HAVEA* to be digital’ by Joe Langley, Niki Wallace, Aaron Davis, Ian Gwilt, Sarah Knowles, Rebecca Partridge, Gemma Wheeler, and Ursula Ankeny
In: COVID-19 and Co-production in Health and Social Care Research, Policy, and Practice
Volume 2: Co-production Methods and Working Together at a Distance
Editors: Oli Williams, Doreen Tembo, Josephine Ocloo, Meerat Kaur, Gary Hickey, Michelle Farr and Peter Beresford
ISBN: 978-1447361794
Imprint: Policy Press
Page count: 160 pages
A launch event will hosted by the Centre for Public Engagement online at 16:00-17:15 Tues 22 June 2021.
Book free place at launch.
Two Lab4Living studentship projects plus Graduate Teaching Assistant (GTA) studentships for postgraduate research students in the Art, Design & Media Research Centre now advertised.
Paul Chamberlain (Lab4Living) is exhibiting a new collection of work at Venice Biennial Architecture exhibition “Time Space Existence” which opens 22 May 2021 and runs until 21 November 2021.
The traditional structures of our every-day life and the spaces we inhabit are being challenged. Increased life expectancy, a global pandemic and technology pervading every aspect of our lives is blurring the boundaries of domesticity and work life, while spaces within the home become less delineated.
Through this collection of work Paul challenges traditional furniture typologies and morphs archetypal forms to create hybrid ambiguous artefacts that reflect the domestic quotidian. The work is part of a broader Lab4Living research enquiry funded through Research England’s Expanding Excellence in England Programme that explores the role of Design in the reconceptualisation of the 100-year life.
Exhibition: “Time Space Existence”
Location: Palazzo Bembo, Palazzo Mora and Marinaressa Gardens, Venice, Italy
Organisers: European Cultural Centre – Italy
Dates: May 22nd – November 21st 2021
Website: https://ecc-italy.eu/exhibitions/upcoming
Prof David Cotterrell’s photographic & written accounts of the militarised healthcare pathway informs development of new training materials for personnel going into combat zones.
50% of SHU’s A&D research rated internationally excellent or world leading, including Chamberlain’s Medical Connectors, TacTile Sounds, Dulake’s visualising Nanotechnology, and Yoxall’s improving Packaging Openability.
Art & Design performs strongly in the 2001 UK research assessment exercise. 5* rated research includes Chamberlain’s TacTile Sounds vibro-sound product development for clinical use.
As a result of its strengths in research and knowledge transfer, Design Futures is accredited by the EU as a Centre of Industrial Collaboration (CIC) to support regional regeneration. It is the only non-STEM CIC status granted.
A commercially focused product & packaging design consultancy group, the Advanced Product Development Centre, now known as Design Futures, is developed by the ADRC in collaboration with Uni of Sheffield to support the regeneration of the Sheffield sub region.
Kyoto DesignLab‘s Julia Cassim runs a 24-Hour participatory Design Challenge during the Design4Health2013 conference.
Noémie Soula presents her art research project ‘Handle (me) with care’ at the forthcoming SDEA Theatre Arts Conference in May. The project explores and re-imagines the relationship between bedridden patients and their caregivers during dressing rituals.
The presentation will focus on how the use of art-based methods – such as dance and textile creations – in this inquiry leads to a better understanding of this highly choreographic care. It will also emphasize how creative practices can infiltrate and challenge other disciplines and research ground to generate new knowledge.
The SDEA Theatre Arts Conference 2021 is organised by Singapore Drama Educators Association (SDEA). SDEA is a not-for-profit organisation set up by artists and drama educators which advocates for the practice and value of drama and theatre in performance, education and community.
The conference is attended by performance, drama, theatre artists and educators. This year’s event is fully online and is themed Creative Disruption: Exploring New Ground. Join from 22 -30 May 2021 to see Noemi’s work!
About the Artist
Noémie Soula is a French artist who joined Lab4Living as a research assistant in 2020. Her practice and research interests sit at the crossroad between art and science, looking at what defines or even redefines humankind. This piece of work is part of the research focus on the 100-year life and the Future Home.
Kaisu Koski and Peter Lloyd Jones will host an online discussion session as part of BIOART Society‘s Talking BIO·FICTION in April.
As part of the BIO·FICTION Shorts season (a touring collection of short films), Kaisu Koski and Peter Lloyd Jones will host a discussion session on 14th April 2021. The season of films explore the theme of Futurebody and delve into neurotechnology. This session will discuss films Paramusical Ensemble, Erase Love, and Adam & Eve MK II.
Bioart Society is a Helsinki-based association developing, producing and facilitating activities around art and natural sciences with an emphasis on biology, ecology and life sciences. It runs SOLU Space, an artistic laboratory and platform for art, science and society. Bioart Society is committed to supporting bioart and biohacking practices through its programme of events.
Date: 14 April 2021, 19–21h (Finnish time, UTC+2)
Location: Online
Info: Talking BIO·FICTION at BIOART Society
Paul Chamberlain will be presenting the work of the Lab4Living team on the NESTORE project alongside the 16 European project partners at an online event on the 27th February to mark the end of the project.
Designers, developers, users, public authorities and businesses will come together at the final event to explore the lessons learnt in more than three years of activity on project called NESTORE (Novel Empowering Solutions and Technology for Older people to Retain Everyday life activities). They will exchange the knowledge built in relation to co-design, technology and user experience.
Paul Chamberlain, Claire Craig and Nick Dulake have been involved in the three year project, funded through the EU H2020 programme. Chamberlain et al. have been responsible for leading the co-design that has informed the development of an extensive system that supports health and wellbeing through the four domains of physical, nutritional, cognitive and social.
Co-design
The L4L team has engaged over 200 participants in co-design activities in the UK, Spain, Italy and the Netherlands, and worked in close collaboration with technical partners in Switzerland.
The project has faced challenges engaging with older communities through recent restrictions imposed by COVID but recent events have highlighted the importance of role of technology in supporting wellbeing.
The outcomes of the project presents creative methods for co-design and highlight the value of engaging users in the process. Useful insights have emerged for the development of future systems.
We introduce a series of researcher blogs written by Lab4Living staff and postgraduate students in which they reflect on their work, studies, events and trips.
In this first blog, researcher Paul Emmerson writes about his recent participation in an online dialogue organised for Sheffield Hallam University staff and students.
Sustainability Challenges for Moving to A Low Carbon Economy and Society
On Wednesday, 24th February 2021 I was pleased to attend, as a discussant, SHU’s Research Institute Dialogue online event introducing diverse academic expertise exploring: “Sustainability Challenges for Moving to A Low Carbon Economy and Society.” A cohort of colleagues engaged the sixty strong viewers with their research and insight. I note several discussions that caught my attention. Fiery thoughts encapsulated Dr Robin Smith’s approach. His study of nuclear reactions within stars ignited his case for fission and fusion nuclear power as decarbonising technologies to energise our industries and heat our homes. But, as Robin sagely noted, these ideas have technical difficulties and societal challenges ahead.
A cohort of colleagues engaged the sixty strong viewers with their research and insight. I note several discussions that caught my attention. Fiery thoughts encapsulated Dr Robin Smith’s approach. His study of nuclear reactions within stars ignited his case for fission and fusion nuclear power as decarbonising technologies to energise our industries and heat our homes. But, as Robin sagely noted, these ideas have technical difficulties and societal challenges ahead.
A chemist, whose past explored studying carbon arising in the age of dinosaurs, Dr Rachel Schwartz-Narbonne spoke of how her new research employs the remarkable characteristics of microbes. She enlists their help to create renewable biogas energy and other materials from our endless supply of wastewater. Biogas power from the “cleaning” of waste is surely a future development we can support.
Elsewhere, Dr Steve Parkes drew attention to the social inequalities of transportation and his promotion of active travel within Sheffield as a carbon-reducing practice we can all partake in while improving our wellbeing. In the future, he argues autonomous vehicles also hold the potential to support the creation of a low carbon economy. And, hopefully, if electrically powered, redress the troubling issue of car emissions within inner cities.
Dr Hywel Jones, a material scientist, spoke of the problematics of recycling. With mobile phones a global phenomenon containing over 45 elements, it remains that reclamation is limited to just over twenty. Moreover, billions remain “hiding” in our cupboards! Hywel’s wise position is to questions how we use materials more efficiently and make our phones last longer while offering the same performance. To advance this discourse, he engages the public in recycling and informational events to help drive behavioural change.
Closest to my practice of design for wellbeing and sustainability is the research of Dr Cristina Cerulli. An architect, Cristina’s work promotes community involvement in designing sustainable focused interventions that challenge the status quo. This stance brings her ethical commitment towards creating a more just society to the fore within her practice.
The presentations highlight SHU’s reach and depth of disciplinary insight capable of helping to address the sustainability challenge and move to a low carbon economy. But to my mind, they mainly agreed with what I believe is today’s dominant worldview. A belief presented by governments, industries and academics. One of how technological innovation will save the day and enable low carbon economies. This is a dangerous position.
Robin’s thinking, I believe, represents the “grandest” of such a technology-led intervention to sustainability. Such ideas ought not to be dismissed. Indeed, they will likely play an essential future role. However, the worldview perspective they are typically presented from represents a technological solutions approach that has proven problematic since such thinking arose during the industrial revolution. Centuries-old studies inform how technological innovations delivering transformative efficiency gains result in price reductions. These price reductions drive demand that in turn drives consumption. As an everyday example, since the switch from using baths to water-saving showers, our water usage in the UK over the last 25 years has increased by 50% (Environment Agency 2014).
Consequently, as widely discussed in economics for sustainability, and design for sustainability literature, efficiency alone is not the solution. Sustainability, encompassing the question of how we realise a low carbon economy, fundamentally requires comprehending our sufficient needs from the perspective of social practices (Shove 2011).
Such comprehension of sufficiency, in my view, requires the formation of a new culture. A culture that builds on the existing social movement practices for sustainability and social equality movements to support the broad critical engagement of citizens as ongoing participants in the steer of their community towards sustainability.
We know citizen endeavour to be sustainable. However, as my question to the panel posed, we need to research: “how do we democratise, articulate, and create the enabling conditions that may scale nationally for Sheffield’s citizen’s ongoing life-centred practice of sustainability?” Only when the enabling conditions, the realising of new civics infrastructures that support citizens in shaping their everyday practice of sustainability and wellbeing, with a cultural informational focus (Sen 2009) of delivering the ongoing value of fairness between citizens, is a path depicting a globally sustainable future likely to become visible. SHU appears well-placed to enable this research. Its impressive academics, with their combined expertise and energy, appear ready to empower citizens to radically challenge their ways of living.
References
Environment Agency. (2014). Environment Agency – Save Water. Retrieved 21 March 2014, from http://www.environment-agency.gov.uk/homeandleisure/beinggreen/117266.aspx
Sen, A. (2009). The Idea of Justice. Belknap Press of Harvard University Press.
Shove, E. (2011). Science and Technology Select Committee Behaviour Change (Cabinet Office, Department of Education and the Government Economic and Social Research Team, Ed.). House of Lords. http://www.parliament.uk/documents/lords-committees/science-technology/behaviourchange/BCOralandWrittenEvCompiled180711.pdf
About the Researcher
Paul Emmerson‘s practice seeks to resolve the synthesis of his interests in social innovation, sustainability and design for health and wellbeing across projects that involve product and service design alongside business model innovation.
Building on a 1915 design patented in the USA by Morgan Parker, Sheffield-based Swann-Morton become world leading manufacturers of two piece stainless steel surgical scalpels.
81% of SHU’s Art & Design submitted work, which includes L4L, is judged world leading or internationally excellent in 2014 research excellence assessment. Art and Design research is ranked 2nd in modern universities and in top ten of all UK universities.
Design For Health, published by Taylor & Francis Online, is launched in Rome. It is led by Lab4Living and an Editorial board drawn from across the world.
The 3rd conference in Sheffield welcomes 177 delegates. 90 papers, an exhibition and – for the first time – posters respond to the theme Synergies of Practice. The 24-Hr Design Challenge explores the theme of Parkinson’s disease.
By the 1850s Sheffield School of Design had grown to around 1,000 students and changed our name to Sheffield School of Art. At the Great Exhibition, we were the most successful art and design school in the country, with Sheffield students winning four gold medals – no other school won any.
Leonardo da Vinci uses drawing to interrogate and build knowledge of anatomy
Sheffield School of Design was founded to provide skilled designers to support Britain’s industry.
A UK government select committee is appointed to look at increasing fine art and design education to support industry.
Project update: 5 Jan 2021
Due to COVID-19 restrictions, face-to-face workshops to understand user thoughts on the proposed devices and pathways for the have not been possible for the UTI testing project. Lab4Living researchers have been exploring non-digital means of engaging participants meaningfully through remote co-design (see Co-design during COVID-19). Therefore, the UTI testing project team has developed a booklet of activities. We printed and sent out to all patient representatives in November 2020.
The project looks at devices for rapid testing of urinary tract infections in primary care settings (e.g. GP surgeries). The booklet activities are centred around scoping out possible pathways e.g. understanding peoples preferences around timings and methods of receiving information and understanding device requirements.
Booklet format
This format has enabled participants (who are taking part as they have had experience of UTI) to be actively involved in the design process from the comfort of their own homes. By using a booklet format, participants had the time and space to work through the different activities without feeling pressured or put on the spot. Participants filled out and posted the booklet back to the team, and we have been collating their insights.
Key insights
Key insights for the device included a preference for a smaller size, and issues around privacy of information in terms of screen display. In terms of the pathway, participants emphasised the information they would want to know in the result of a negative test. For example, what else could symptoms mean? What might worrying symptoms be? What are the next steps? The devices and pathways will be further developed based on these insights. The feedback has been valuable, and has helped the team to develop further the device and possible pathway.
Next steps
The team is now working towards developing some prototypes and exploring possible pathways that embody the user needs, to be ready for summer 2021 for further feedback.
For more information, visit the UTI testing device in primary care page.
Lab4living news archive on the CCRI Impact blog at Sheffield Hallam University
Lab4Living is one of four research centres which make up the Culture and Creativity Research Institute (CCRI), Sheffield Hallam University’s largest and highest rated community of researchers.
The CCRI Impact blog was set up in 2015 to showcase research and publications from its research community. All news items relating to Lab4Living dating from 2015 to 2021 can be found on the blog’s Lab4Living News Archive.
A new research centre is founded at Sheffield Hallam University by Prof Jim Roddis, providing a catalyst for creative practice based research and knowledge transfer.
After volunteering during WWI, former Sheffield Art School student Annie Bindon Carter starts a company helping men severely disabled in the war to produce painted fabrics, sold around the country. An early example of art therapy, the business employs 70 ex-servicemen.
The first practice-led design PhD at SHU is awarded to Graham Whiteley for his research: “An Articulated Skeletal Analogy of the Human Upper Limb”.
After more than 10 years, we undergo a rebrand.
In recognition of its track record in design-led research, Lab4Living receives £4m funding award from Research England’s Expanding Excellence in England (E3) fund to support strategic research into the 100-year life and the Future Home.
150 delegates from 16 countries attend the second conference in Sheffield. The themes are invention, adoption and diffusion.
Hosted at the famous Melbourne Cricket Club by Swinburne University in Melbourne, Australia.
Joe Langley’s NIHR Knowledge Mobilisation Fellowship is the first to be awarded to a researcher from outside the health disciplines. The fellowship explores the added value of design and making in the context of co-produced research, seeding several ongoing projects.
A consortium led by L4L publishes an expert-led review of the extent of the art of design theory and practice in health and social care.
We’re awarded Membership of ENoL and are one of the longest established living labs in Europe.
The development of an iconic tactile language for use in the production of tactile maps led to Lab4Living’s first Spin Out Company
Launched in the Art & Design Research Centre and Sheffield Institute of Arts Gallery at Sheffield Hallam University in July 2011.
EPSRC-funded project outcomes are awarded ‘Most Innovative Design’ in 2017 by the Over 50s Housing Association, UK.
Paul Chamberlain brings new approaches to medical drug delivery connectors, using a haptic/cognitive approach to reduce problems of mismatching which could lead to fatal accidents. Funded by UK Health Technology Device Agency
Lab4Living is launched as a multidisciplinary research initiative bringing together expertise from SHU’s art & design and health & wellbeing research communities, and industrial design consultancy Design Futures.
Commercial production of a new hospital communication system begins, the first R&D project with medical equipment manufacturer Mediplan. Through its long-term collaboration with Design Futures researchers, Mediplan has successfully adopted design at a strategic level.
Millennium Product Award winning TacTile sounds system, a modular vibro-acoustic furniture system, is an early example of using design and creative practice to understand complex user needs.
In the first issue of the year, Design For Health purposely presents a collection of papers that exemplify the diversity of approaches and applications in design and health.
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Online
Editors: Paul Chamberlain, Claire Craig, Paul Atkinson, Kirsty Christer
Print / Online ISSN: 2473-5132 / 2473-5140
Published: Three times per year; est. 2017
This issue presents papers adopting more traditional quantitative studies alongside positioning papers that don’t necessary present answers but raise and encourage debate on important emerging issues and potential new spaces for research within this broad field of enquiry.
The global relevance and interest is evident; papers come from Canada, Spain, New Zealand, the Netherlands and the UK.
The issue includes two papers co-authored by researchers from Lab4Living. Claire Craig et al. reflect on approaches to ethics for researchers working in health contexts in ‘Development of an Ethical Road Map’. Chris Redford is a co-author on Powell et al.’s paper evaluating a co-designed prototype psychoeducational activity book for seven- to eleven-year-olds with ADHD. The issue also includes a paper on Digital sovereignty by Pierri and Herlo. This is the first of several papers resulting from the 5th Design4Health conference which would have taken place in Amsterdam in 2020.
In his editorial ‘Transformation of health …. and design?’, Paul Chamberlain notes that this issue presents research undertaken both preceding and during the COVID pandemic. It is important to reflect on whether approaches and methods are still relevant, have changed due to the pandemic, and where we might be experiencing a transitional moment where design research in health will change significantly.
Links
- Read / subscribe to Design For Health at Taylor & Francis Online
- Submit to Design For Health
Kits developed and produced by Lab4Living and Design Futures Packaging are now available to purchase via Marie Curie.
During Dutch Design Week 2018, Creative Industries Fund NL and Waag are organising the Designing a Community of Care: From creative research to practice network meeting, in association with the Aedes-Actiz Knowledge Centre for Housing, Care and Welfare and the Who Cares team. Paul and Claire will give a keynote exploring the role of design and creative practice in understanding and tackling the challenges of an ageing population.
In the Netherlands a care reinvention is happening. An ageing population, decentralisation and technological advances are making new demands on the provision of care in communities. Creative Industries Fund NL and Waag believe in the power of design’s contribution to this process of transition within care in the community.
Designing a Community of Care
The reason for this meeting is the Open Call: Designing a Community of Care, which was issued by the Fund in the spring of 2018. Thirteen projects have been initiated, in which designers are tackling changes to care in the community in conjunction with municipal services, care providers and housing corporations. You can find further information via this link (Dutch only).
Keynote speakers
Professor Paul Chamberlain – Design Director of Lab4Living at Sheffield Hallam University
Dr Claire Craig – Health Director of Lab4Living at Sheffield Hallam University
Good design can mean a lot for society, but how can design practices and processes help to tackle the challenges we are facing in the 21st century? Paul Chamberlain argues that design is as much about the definition of the question as it is about providing an answer, and that interdisciplinary collaboration is the starting point for new creative possibilities. In Claire Craig’s former role as an occupational therapist she gained experience in the advancement of the wellbeing of the elderly, and she believes that design plays a pivotal role in this field.
Designing a Community of Care: From creative research to practice
Monday 22 October 2018, 1PM – 5PM
Innovation Powerhouse (Strijp-T), Zwaanstraat 31a, Eindhoven
Chronic Health exhibition
The Embassy of Health is an initiative of Waag, VanBerlo, Philips, Máxima Medical Centre, U Create and the Dutch Design Foundation. The ‘Chronic Health’ exhibition reveals how these organisations are jointly shaping care and how care products or services are not autonomous, but interact within a complex care environment. The exhibition immerses visitors in an interactive environment and allows them to experience the current and prospective role of design for (health)care: now, as well as in the immediate and more distant future.
Professor Paul Chamberlain is a Professor of Design, Co-Director of C3RI at Sheffield Hallam University, Head of the Art & Design Research Centre and Co-Director of Lab4Living.
Claire Craig is Reader in Design and Creative Practice in Health in the Art & Design Research Centre (ADRC) and Co-Director of the interdisciplinary research group Lab4Living. Claire’s research focuses on the role of creative practices in improving quality of life and well-being for people living with dementia.
Photo above: Sander van Wettum.
The neck support collar goes into production at partner healthcare company, Talarmade.
‘exhibition in a box’ is developed as a tool to engage communities in co-creative activities, informing much subsequent Lab4Living work.
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Prof Paul Chamberlain
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Prof Peter Lloyd Jones
Professor of Design
Prof Claire Craig
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Dr Kaisu Koski
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