FUTURING CARE. RETHINKING WELL-BEING BY ENVISIONING DIGITAL SOLUTIONS INTEGRATED INTO DAILY LIFE

(Project laboratory, Intensive Schools)

  • Language: ENGLISH
  • Campus: MILANO BOVISA
  • Enrollment: 23-12-2022to hour 12:00 on
    20-01-2023
  • Subject area: Soft skill, personal and career development|Tools|Tech and society
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Teacher in charge
CANINA MARIA RITA
Credits
3
Hours to attend
80
Max. number of students
20
Selection Criteria
CV
Short motivation letter related to workshop participation (300 words)
Portfolio evaluation (just for design students)
Good academic career
Fluent in English
Priority will be given to Master Degree students In Integrated Product Design, PSSD, Interaction Design, D&E, Management Engineering, Computer Science and Engineering
Topics:
Design Futures, Digital Creativity, Food as medicine, Mental and emotional care, digital maturity, futuring care
Tag
Interaction design, Product design, Service design, Engineering, Artificial intelligence, Environmental and social sustainability, Health and lifescience, Food and Agriculture

Description of the initiative

Objective: Are you interested in co-designing future tech solutions that will reshape our daily life care?    Are you interested in discovering how digital technologies can enable the creation of a more equal, accessible and distributed healthcare system?  Are you interested in learning a new methodology to think and create in a collaborative, fair and innovative way, in an international and multidisciplinary environment?  If it is so, we have a fantastic workshop for you!   The third DC4DM Learning Lab will happen in Politecnico di Milano and will focus on the creation of future vision and tech solutions that will reshape the concept of care in 2023. In this LLab the concept of care is considered from a convergent perspective as a combination of human and environmental health and their interaction and interconnectedness. Indeed, the planet's health is crucial for individuals' physical, mental and emotional health.More than before, care involves systemic processes, such as: making healthy lifestyle choices avoiding unhealthy habits, being physically active, eating healthily, and it ranges from promoting everyday well-being and taking care of self-treatable conditions to the management of long-term conditions and recovering after trauma. Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Virtual Reality, Wearable sensors and Internet of Things are emerging technologies with outstanding potentialities for care and well-being. Therefore, new digital care scenarios and solutions can be envisioned towards the creation of a more equitable and sustainable well-being ecosystem for future generations.    Method: A Learning Lab is a 10-days design-led workshop where students from design, engineering and management will work collaboratively to design new tech-solutions for more sustainable and ethical futures. Multidisciplinary teams would explore the potentialities of selected digital technologies proposed by five selected tech-SMEs or start-ups and will be supported by a group of international mentors with experience in different disciplinary fields. Learning Labs are part of the DC4DM methodology, one of the outputs of the ERASMUS+ funded project titled Digital Creativity for developing Digital Maturity future skills. Content: At the Learning Lab ‘Futuring Care' you will meet and work with students and experts from different disciplinary fields from three different countries – Italy, Portugal and France.Each team will define new vision around mobility of the future, and design new sustainable systems by introducing and using one of the proposed digital technologies. Teams will design new products and services by identifying the potential of the proposed digital technologies.  More info will be soon available here: www.dc4dm.euTo see pictures from the first Learning Lab in Madeira, and the second one in Saint'Etienne, please visit our Instagram page

Duration

dal January 2023 a February 2023

Calendar

30/01 > LLab kick-off - Introduction to DC4DM & Presentation of the macro-themes by three Mentors

31/01 > Phase 1: Horizon Scanning & Teamwork (Trend Research)

1/02 > Teamwork (Trend Research, STEEP Analysis, Domain Map)

2/02 > Phase 2: Visioning & Teamwork (Alternative Futures) - Co-design session with Mentors (Vision of the future)

3/02 > Teamwork (Scenario building)

4/02 > Co-design session with start-ups/SMEs/companies (Scenario matrix)

5/02 > Break. Free day.

6/02 > Phase 3: Ideation & Teamwork (Brainstorming & Inspirational Stimuli)

7/02 > Teamwork (Select and implement ideas) & Co-design session with start-ups/SMEs/companies

8/02 > Teamwork (Build to think)

9/02 > Sharing Day. Teams presentations with the participation of Mentors, Start-ups/SMEs/companies and other external guests.

Note

Participants will be asked to sign an NDA for the confidentiality of the knowledge / tech-products made available by the startups/SMEs, while the startups/SMEs will sign a document to protect the intellectual property of the projects that will emerge from the Learning Lab.

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