How can design research improve our health, and is it better to design for prevention or for the cure? We kick off our triptych on Design & Health with Delft Design Professor Maaike Kleinsmann. Ianus and co-host Marc talk with her about working with healthcare professionals as a design researcher, what all this new remote-sensing health-tech for consumers means for personal health challenges and the issue of health data and privacy. And dealing with Strava-men in tight lycra suits.

Professor Kleinsmann is initiator and/or contributer of several large-scale health research projects in The Netherlands, including Healthy Start, the E-Health Living Lab and the Delft Design Cardiolab.

References in this episode:
Invention: A Life – James Dyson
Encanto (Disney+)
One Hundred Years of Solitude – Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Mountain bike routes The Netherlands

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