Montréal was represented at this coloquium which took place in Saint-Étienne (France) on november 25 and 26. Industrial designer Mario Gagnon (ALTO design) as well as design commissionner Sylvie Champeau (Ville de Montréal) presided two sessions.
Highlights of session 2
“Concevoir pour tous” (“Designing for Everyone”), chaired by Sylvie Champeau:
Initiatives must be taken with the care-delivery system, with an eye to:
- Rethinking the system (missing link);
- Ensuring the longevity of care systems and economic models;
- Promoting healthier and more active lifestyles for all: People Olympics;
- Leveraging design to create products that are pleasant and easy to use;
- Observing practices and usages among caregivers as well as recipients;
- Letting the magic of design do its work through collective creative intelligence.
Highlights of session 3
“Bien être, confort d’usage” (“Wellness, Basic Comforts”), chaired by Mario Gagnon, referred to the challenges for designers, with respect to the following elements, among others:
pose des défis aux designers, notamment en regard des éléments suivants :
- Design beyond technology: human beings;
- Quality of life, efficiency;
- Change management;
- The notion of empathy, pivotal to enabling design to contribute novel solutions;
- Observation of behaviours;
- Adapting to the very restricted medical environment
The lines of action that emerged at the end of the symposium revolve around the following points:
- Aligning technology and individual experiences;
- Engaging in substantive work encompassing both usage and technology;
- Rethinking the architecture of products and the organizational system;
- Bringing together and organizing physicians, companies, designers, health professionals in general, and especially users (“people”);
- Co-creating, dreaming, imagining;
- Taking a Living Lab approach: for you, for us, for all.
