Future Hospital and a Manifesto of Care
Leah Heiss (Monash University) and Keely Macarow (RMIT University) discuss their ongoing investigation into medicalised augmented jewellery and the intersection between creativity and care, which has culminated in many wearable applications for the delivery of medical monitoring and drug delivery, including Heiss’s diabetes and Heiss and Macarow’s cardiac monitoring and SOS jewellery. The conversation centres on the ways in which their shared research interests—health and wellbeing, design and the creative arts—meet in health care settings and innovative design applications and solutions.
About the panel
Associate Professor Leah Heiss is a Melbourne-based designer and Monash University academic working at the nexus of design, health and technology. Through collaborative projects, she has brought human-centred design to technologies for hearing loss, diabetes and pre-diabetes, cardiovascular disease, gut disease and loneliness. Her wearable technologies include jewellery that administers insulin, cardiac monitoring jewellery, swallowable devices that detect disease and emergency jewellery for times of medical crisis. Heiss is the Eva and Marc Besen International Research Chair in Design, Faculty of Art, Design and Architecture, Monash University.
Associate Professor Keely Macarow is Coordinator of Postgraduate Research and Coordinator of Creative Care in the School of Art at RMIT University. Macarow’s research is focused on social practice and the nexus between creative arts, social justice, health and wellbeing. She collaborates with designers and housing researchers based in Melbourne and Lund who produce creative works, publications and interventions in Australia and Sweden that advocate for homefullness (rather than homelessness), and has worked extensively in Australia and Sweden on interdisciplinary projects utilising creative, design and health practices in healthcare settings
Form x Content is a program of online and on-campus talks delivered during Monash’s teaching semesters. Thematically driven, the series features the voices of renowned First Nations, Australian and international artists, designers, architects, curators and academics, and aims to stimulate new thinking and encourage debate and discussion around contemporary ideas. The program is delivered every Wednesday lunchtime during Monash University teaching semesters, both online and broadcast on the Big Screen at Monash Caulfield.
In 2022, Form x Content considers the ways in which individuals and organisations are changing and adapting in response to current conditions, including the disconnection many have experienced as a result of the pandemic.
The Semester 2 theme, ‘On Care’, explores how the disciplines of art, design and architecture can engender and embed principles of caring, inclusivity, safety and wellbeing through research and practice.
Form x Content is free and accessible to all.
Join us Wednesday lunchtimes at 1pm—online and on the Big Screen, Caulfield campus
Form x Content Presented by Monash Art, Design and Architecture, programmed by Monash University Museum of Art | MUMA.
Event Details
- Date:
- 17 August 2022 at 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm
- Venue:
- Online and Caulfield big screen
- Categories:
- Design
Description
Leah Heiss (Monash University) and Keely Macarow (RMIT University) discuss their ongoing investigation into medicalised augmented jewellery and the intersection between creativity and care, which has culminated in many wearable applications for the delivery of medical monitoring and drug delivery, including Heiss’s diabetes and Heiss and Macarow’s cardiac monitoring and SOS jewellery. The conversation centres on the ways in which their shared research interests—health and wellbeing, design and the creative arts—meet in health care settings and innovative design applications and solutions.
About the panel
Associate Professor Leah Heiss is a Melbourne-based designer and Monash University academic working at the nexus of design, health and technology. Through collaborative projects, she has brought human-centred design to technologies for hearing loss, diabetes and pre-diabetes, cardiovascular disease, gut disease and loneliness. Her wearable technologies include jewellery that administers insulin, cardiac monitoring jewellery, swallowable devices that detect disease and emergency jewellery for times of medical crisis. Heiss is the Eva and Marc Besen International Research Chair in Design, Faculty of Art, Design and Architecture, Monash University.
Associate Professor Keely Macarow is Coordinator of Postgraduate Research and Coordinator of Creative Care in the School of Art at RMIT University. Macarow’s research is focused on social practice and the nexus between creative arts, social justice, health and wellbeing. She collaborates with designers and housing researchers based in Melbourne and Lund who produce creative works, publications and interventions in Australia and Sweden that advocate for homefullness (rather than homelessness), and has worked extensively in Australia and Sweden on interdisciplinary projects utilising creative, design and health practices in healthcare settings
Form x Content is a program of online and on-campus talks delivered during Monash’s teaching semesters. Thematically driven, the series features the voices of renowned First Nations, Australian and international artists, designers, architects, curators and academics, and aims to stimulate new thinking and encourage debate and discussion around contemporary ideas. The program is delivered every Wednesday lunchtime during Monash University teaching semesters, both online and broadcast on the Big Screen at Monash Caulfield.
In 2022, Form x Content considers the ways in which individuals and organisations are changing and adapting in response to current conditions, including the disconnection many have experienced as a result of the pandemic.
The Semester 2 theme, ‘On Care’, explores how the disciplines of art, design and architecture can engender and embed principles of caring, inclusivity, safety and wellbeing through research and practice.
Form x Content is free and accessible to all.
Join us Wednesday lunchtimes at 1pm—online and on the Big Screen, Caulfield campus
Form x Content Presented by Monash Art, Design and Architecture, programmed by Monash University Museum of Art | MUMA.