presented at Design4Health2013

1. 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)

2. 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

3. Design process
(participatory) design  share  redesign  share  redesign  share 

4. 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

5. Start-up 3 participants with diabetes, 3 challenges, 3 self-management tools
motivation, personalisation, public use

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

7. 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.

8. 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

9. 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

10. 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

11. 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