Polifactory and the Center for Design of Northeastern University collaborate on a platform for Empowered Patientship

Polifactory and Center for Design – Northeastern CAMD collaborate on a research and project-oriented platform to explore the dimensions and conceptions of patient-centeredness in Milan and Boston. Design for Empowered Patientship is the research initiative promoted by Polifactory and the Center for Design of Northeastern University to study patient-centric projects and practices to highlight the significance of humanizing healthcare. This initiative works to identify emerging practices in two regions – Milan with its metropolitan area and Boston with its metropolitan area – to develop a structured account of the range of approaches that can empower patients and transform the culture of caregiving systems “from cure to care”. 

The results of this research, released in 2022, will enable Polifactory (Department of Design, Politecnico di Milano) and Fondazione Politecnico Milano and the Center for Design and Fondazione Politecnico US to constitute the Design for Empowered Patientship research and project-oriented platform. The scope of the platform is to map the actors, the core competencies, strengths, and weaknesses of the healthcare ecosystem in Boston in its relationships with design and then compare it with Milano’s ecosystem.