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PLAY-LEARN-HEAL: Co-creating connected and empowering solutions for the hospitalized child
CHALLENGE
HOW TO CONNECT AND EMPOWER EVERY CHILD AT THE
CHILDREN’S HOSPITAL?
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PRACTICAL• How to increase every child’s agency at
the hospital and beyond?• How to keep hospitalized children
connected to their families, peers and communities?
• How to ease young patients’ stress and anxiety?
• How to harness new media and digital technologies?
METHODOLOGICAL• Which methods and models of design
are needed for creating solutions that are able to address the diversity of goals and needs of hospitalized children?
• How to facilitate co-creation processes in multidisciplinary teams that take the needs and interests of the child at the center of their attention?
UNPACKING THE CHALLENGE
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Taking human values and children’s agency as
starting points
Embracing co-creation and
experimentation
Interdisciplinary expertise
Collaborating with national
and international
teams
APPROACH
TEAM
The child
THIRD SECTOR AND BUSINESSES
Uusi Lastensairaala 2017
Designers, architects, artists, producers, serious games
developers
EDUCATION
City of Helsinki
Hospital schools
ACADEMIA
Teacher Education, UH
SimLab, Aalto University
Playful Learning Center, UH
HEALTH CARE
HUS
TYKS
INTERNATIONAL COLLABORATION
Project M@ch, Monroe Carell Jr. Vanderbilt Children’s Hospital
CoLab, Uni. of Missouri, St. Louis
SAVEH, Universidad de La Laguna
d.school, Stanford University
METHOD
• Co-ordinated ethnographic case studies in the pilot hospitals to advance design collaboratives
• Iterative co-design projects:
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Empathize
Define
Ideate
Prototype
Test
Co-design
OUTCOMESSocial, material and digital solutions for children’s care journeys at the hospital that:➜empower children ➜decrease stress and anxiety➜connect children with families,
peers and other communities ➜increase accessibility to knowledge
and learning experiences➜expand social supports for learning
and healing
Playful solutions
Mobile solutions
E-learning
RoboticsE-healing
Digital games
Child-centered services
IMPACT• Increasing connectedness, learning and wellbeingFor children and
families
• Promoting every child’s empowerment during their care journeys at the hospital and beyondFor hospitals
• Novel models of human centric co-design• Transdisciplinary scientific results and publications
For research
• Proven concepts, prototypes, and digital solutions for local and global useFor companies
• Tackling acute societal challenges surrounding every child’s equal rights to a quality of life, care and learning
For society