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Concept OptiLife is an integrated monitoring health and lifestyle system that tracks, compiles and analyses vital signs. It functions as an assessment platform that lowers health costs by connecting insurance providers with healthy companies. The design seeks to pose questions around the future of health care, management, and well-being.
Description This year's entry from RISD was developed in the context of the Digital + Media Department. Digital + Media at RISD is an interdisciplinary graduate program that integrates graduate curricula from across the entire school, from Fine Arts to Architecture and Design. Two small teams worked on separate projects throughout the twelve-week spring semester, coming together weekly to share their process. At the end of the term, the OptiLife project was selected for further development and the two teams merged, working together for six weeks toward the final presentation at Microsoft. RISD's approach to the challenge was driven by a desire to create "objects for thinking" in the tradition of critical design. In contrast to the convention of presenting the designed artifact as "solution", the OptiLife project is explicitly intended to provoke dialogue through presenting more questions than answers. OptiLife asks pointed questions around the ethical and political implications of future trends in monitoring and managing health care costs. As a think tank of potentially significant consequence, Design Expo presents the perfect opportunity for such critical dialogue. We are very grateful to be here. We welcome your questions and hope to foster rigorous and sustained dialogue around what we believe are urgent design questions for the present and future.
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