SHINE - Design in Rehab
Teaching 'design thinking' skills to people with spinal cord injuries to increase self-efficacy. This project builds upon a pilot project 'design and rehabilitation' undertaken by the Lab4Living team supported by the Silvia Adams Trust and the Royal Society of Arts.
Computer History
A social, cultural and design history of the evolution of the electronic computer, its reception, consumption and representation
NESTORE
Novel Empowering Solutions and Technologies for Older people to Retain Everyday life activities.
Foreign Bodies
The monograph, published and distributed internationally by ACTAR Publishers, targets academic and non-academic audiences concerned with hybrid practices in the arts, applied art and design. The publication contextualises and sets out Zellweger's research and work in different media and includes images of finished works, works in progress and in context.
BuddyWOTCH
Following a Small Business Research Initiative project that developed a proof-of-principle prototype, this project focuses on merging user-led, evidence based design methods developed by Lab4Living to generate pre-production prototypes of BuddyWOTCH. The project supports the Department of Health’s ‘3millionlives’ concordat to improve the lives of 3 million LTC patients with self-monitoring tech.
Improving the experiences of people living with dementia
Funded through the Royal Society New Zealand Catalyst Fund this project is a joint initiative between Lab4Living and The Design for Health and Wellbeing (DHW) Lab, NZ.
Understanding Dexterity and Packaging
As we age, there is a natural decline in our physical and mental capabilities. Generally we are not as strong or as dexterous as we used to be and there is some decline in our visual acuity and memory
Green to Gold
Based on 7 years of research and development the ‘Green to Gold’ project brings together work that spans material development, process development, product design, fashion design, jewellery and metal work along with designers, makers, retailers and consumers
Excessories - Let's talk about FAT
Excessories was an exhibition which confronts creative misunderstandings with the Art and Design Research Centre at Sheffield Hallam University.
Design4Health
Design4Health a series of conferences and publications with the Art and Design Research Centre, Sheffield Hallam University.