Design Innovation For Community Impact
In an effort to connect designers, makers, and healthcare professionals, we are converging a team of passionate individuals to ideate, test and manufacture solutions to help address the COVID-19 crisis.
Our motivation is to be more organized in our collective efforts with the crisis and the needs for rapid creative innovation primarily for our healthcare stakeholders--so far (PPE equipment: masks, shields, respirators, ventilators components, thermometers, nasal swaps, etc).
The goals for the group are:
- Forum and collaboration space to merge talents towards creating agile on-demand innovations for the crisis
- Connect with healthcare leadership to evaluate solutions
- Connect with industry partners to scale viable solutions
- Provide means for community involvement
- Community manufacturing
- Proposed needs
- Accumulate volunteers
- Resource to relevant information for creative and problem-solving solutions
This Design Innovation Group is initiated by these University of Cincinnati organizations in partnership:
- College of DAAP
- 1819 Innovation Hub
- UC Medical Center
- Cincinnati Children’s Hospital
- College of Engineering
- Office of Innovation
As well as these Industry Partners:
- Sew Valley
- Hemmer Design
- Maker Gear
The group meets via Microsoft Teams to check-in, share ideas, and to ask clinicians to pose problems that need solutions. To join the initiative and get access to the virtual Team meeting place, send an email to COVID19DI@uc.edu
Questions about the initiative? Contact COVID19DI@uc.edu