The Cité du design, Saint-Étienne, France, and the City of Montreal organized, for the XXV Entretiens Jacques Cartier, a conference on the theme: Medical design, inventing care solutions for tomorrow.
Design gives a new look on medical techniques and holds an outstanding potential of innovation. At the interaction of human being and object, design creates products and services adapted to the person, and contributes to improve the comfort of the patient’s environment.
Design obviously cannot have therapeutic effects as it is generally understood, but it is a mean to make the disease less alarming ; it enables to consider new modes of care, prevention and support for the patients and their family, in particular at home.
This symposium proposes to develop the issue of medical design as an innovation driver to:
- Collaborate with research, innovating in the field of medical technologies (artificial organs, implants or biomaterials, etc.)
- work on the comfort and improvement of treatments for the patients, or imagine new diagnosis and intervention devices for doctors and medical staff
- reconsider the notion of care and invent the context of evolution for the forthcoming medical practices
The symposium took place at the Cité du design, in Saint-Étienne, France, on November 20 2012.
This meeting was organized in the context of the partnership existing between Saint Étienne and Montreal since 1998.
