Kathrina Dankl

• Design School Kolding

This article explores the methodological considerations regarding the organization of a site-specific exhibition in urban space and the design research experiments that may be part of such an exhibition. The aim is to encourage design research as ‘exhibition’ and to propose a format that allows theory to enter the exhibition programme for the purpo...

Background Assistive technologies have the potential to facilitate everyday life of people with dementia and their families. Close collaboration with affected people and interdisciplinary research are essential to understand and address the needs of prospective users. In this study, we present the results of the evaluation of such an assistive syst...

Feelings of loneliness and social exclusion are a widespread phenomenon of digital modernity occurring across nations and cohorts, and it is therefore a significant area of interest to be addressed by the policies of welfare states and by designers. Existing research emphasises qualities in probes and probing such as providing inspiration and infor...

Background: The objective of this International Patient Decision Aids Standard (IPDAS) review is to update and synthesize theoretical and empirical evidence on how balanced information can be presented and measured in patient decision aids (PtDAs). Methods: A multidisciplinary team conducted a scoping review using 2 search strategies in multiple...

This article explores a collaboration between a hospital and a design team working on shared decision making. The analysis shows that designers have materialized care on different levels. One level concerns the combination of top-down and bottom-up stakeholder input—in other words, the representation of voices that are not equally equipped with pow...

Ausgehend von der Frage dieser Publikation nach der beziehungsstiftenden Rolle von Dingen fokussiert der vorliegende Text auf Dinge, die das Verhältnis zwischen Arzt/Ärztin und Patient*in zwischenmenschlich in einer neuen Weise strukturieren oder gar erst stiften. Es handelt sich um jene Dinge, die Teil der gegenwärtigen Strategie der partizipative...

Dementia is one of the most common causes of disability among older adults. The design of supportive IT applications requires an understanding of the multitude of individual challenges faced by people living with dementia, as well as the knowledge of the condition per se. A scaffolding design process and the inclusion of appropriate experts might b...

Design researchers and practitioners have started to collaborate with experts in diverse areas shifting the focus to healthcare, education and business. In one of these areas, healthcare, design researchers and practitioners have been exploring ways of engaging patients more actively in their own healthcare and wellbeing. Person-centred care and sh...

Memento is a product family for people living with dementia, consisting of a notebook with an integrated pen, and a smartwatch. The design is the result of an extensive cross-disciplinary, multi-national development process focusing on learning from existing strategies of remembering of people with dementia and their families. Memento aims to suppo...

Co-creation is seen as imperative in healthcare however existing frameworks are in need for adapting to specific settings from a person-centred care perspective such as shared decision-making, characterised by asymmetrical power relations and restricted time resources. This article takes a workshop in shared decision-making with doctors, nurses, pa...

This paper synthesises findings from a design method course that focused on a design brief in shared medical decision making. In the paper, design methods is a term describing any action undertaken for a forward movement in the design process. The course is based on a selection of assignments that target intuition, reflection and reflexivity. Altho...

Figure 1. No country for old men, Lanzavecchia + Wai Designers. Photo credit: Davide Farabegoli

Since the ‘new museology’ (Vergo 1989), curating exhibitions has become a contested task. Participatory methods in education and curating have been used and debated as one of the tools to bring museums and visitors into contact in a new way. On the basis of an exhibition on family and kinship, based on praxeologic approaches in curating as well as...

This paper explores alternative starting points for inclusive design projects based on a two-year ethnographic study with elderly people in Vienna. It argues that design briefs already take account of ageing reality such as physical ageing but less widely of people's experience, holistic style issues and own strategies on how to deal with getting o...

This article looks at elderly individuals, their possessions, and their ties to both space and time.1 How does the material constantly reflect the immaterial? How are everyday rituals and routines anchored and solidified in the built environment? This article is a study in the tradition of ethnographic research, aiming at a better understanding of...

this chapter explores design and aging, looking at the role of place and things in older life. What can ethnography in a specific locale bring to the practice and thinking around design?