The role of the designer facilitator — A field based design approach towards facilitating a collaborative technology for a health care project

摘要

Design has the ability to envision and also integrate within processes for achieving positive societal transformation. Based on my participation in a University-based technology for health care project as a master's thesis I will present a field based design approach for facilitating a collaborative process. I present that a designerly approach can be useful especially in bringing together the users perspective and needs into a multi-disciplinary working team.The University-based project called GloCal is a Mobile Health project from the University of Helsinki. Project GloCal is an effort to reduce infant morbidity and mortality among the underserved populations of the world.I highlight my learning from working with Non-Governmental Organization’s (NGO’s), university researchers and technology developers involved in the project. By presenting the role of the designer in such process, in reflection I will finally share what evolved as a toolset for me during the project. In this manner, the thesis will explore the role of the designer as a facilitator for an inclusive, participatory and iterative process in a technology for healthcare and development project.