| art.description.project | CoDesigning Healthcare Design Sprint held in
Gothenburg on April 2 -5, 2019. It was a 4-
day design sprint consisting of a day of
introduction and a 3-day workshop
experience. The sprint worked with a
starting brief from the Childrens’
Healthcare Center of the region of Västra
Götaland was as follows:
The Starting Brief:
In Sweden, children participate in BVC
Services (Child Health Center Services)
from the age of 0 to 6 years. Information on the child’s health and development is
exchanged through this very important
relationship for both the parents and for
the state.
In the relationship communication could
possibly be improved upon and, thus, for
the next 3 days, we will together work to
understand, to map, and to prototype the
communication flows of delivering health
information between nurses to parents and
parents to nurses.
The above serves as the umbrella for the
following two focus areas:
1. Information on the different
visits during the child's time at
BVC.
2. Information in regards to
prepping for a visit. (the child’s
perspective)
This 4-day sprint was part of a greater 2-
year project funded by Nordplus Horizons and
CIRRUS with collaborating Nordic/Baltic
Universities: University of Gothenburg,
Lapland University and the Estonian Academy
of the Arts. The aims of the cross-border
project are for knowledge share with other
designers working in the healthcare context,
to expand and advocate for more healthcare
providers to use design in their
developmental processes, and finally for
each of the design faculties of
participating Universities to place design
activities into each local society and
system. Or in other words, as the
application proposal stated:
“The activities proposed within Co-Designing
healthcare are to improve not only the expertise
of the proposed Nordplus Horizontal network
project partners, but also their relationship to
the community by fostering simple low-cost
innovations through design thinking in hospitals
- North Estonia Medical Centre, Sahlgrenska
University Hospital, and Lapland Central
Hospital - affiliated to the HE institutions
responsible for managing Co-Designing Healthcare
activities. Such bottom-up or, patient-led approach to health and social care services has
important lessons for a new era of medicine,
defined by patient engagement.”
This sprint was the experiential base and
embodied contribution to the first year of
the knowledge sharing project, sprints were
also held in Tallinn, Estonia and Rovaniemi,
Finland during April and early May. Since
these instances, the group has worked to cowrite
an article, and have drafted this
article, plus we are working to take the
project to the next level in 2020 – where we
will sprint the sprint facilitators. There
we plan to take on an even more critical eye
to what we do while using the methodology of
design sprinting inside the healthcare
sector. | sv |
