#23 – A Designer walks into a Hospital - Maaike Kleinsmann Out of the Blue

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 contributor 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 → https://www.dyson.co.uk/james-dyson/invention-a-life Encanto  (Disney+) → https://www.disneyplus.com/en-gb/movies/encanto/33q7DY1rtHQH One Hundred Years of Solitude – Gabriel Garcia Marquez → https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/320.One_Hundred_Years_of_Solitude Mountain bike routes The Netherlands → https://www.mtbroutes.nl/