One of the categories in the annual Danish Design Award is ‘Young Talents’. We are proud to announce that a team of students from the MA-program in codesign are among the four finalists. The team is Rie Maktabi and Isabel Aagård (graduates from 2016) and Xénia Geller and Melanie Povlitzki (graduating June 2017) with the project ‘Chemo to go, Please!’. They codesigned a bag that enables cancer patients to move about during their chemo treatment.
“Chemo To Go, Please!” is a codesign project conducted in partnership with Odense University Hospital and Rigshospitalet, which aims to improve the experience of home chemotherapy treatment for leukemia patients.
Home chemotherapy is a new form of treatment that allows patients to take their chemo “to go”, instead of staying at the hospital – An environment known as a breeding ground for infection. When patients stay home, they are more active. They exercise more, see friends and family, catch fewer infections, eat more and sleep better – All of which leads to a quicker recovery. The treatment consists of an IV bag attached to an infusion pump, which is housed in a wearable “chemo bag” that the patient takes home. The original chemo bag couldn’t be washed or reused, was an eyesore and didn’t meet the hospital’s needs for hygiene and safety. Read more
Watch a 6 minutes video of the journey here
The Danish Design Award is celebrating the best design solutions and highlighting the many ways in which design can make a difference for our society. The organisations behind the award is Design Denmark and the Danish Design Centre. The new partnership behind the Danish Design Award brings together the design industry and the entire country around an annual design event celebrating the difference design can make.
You can find more about the finalists 2017 here: Finalists 2017: Young Talents
The Danish Design Awards ceremony takes place on 31 May at the Svane Shipping Hall in Kolding.
