{"id":6907,"date":"2019-03-20T10:57:04","date_gmt":"2019-03-20T10:57:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/polifactory.test.polimi.it\/?post_type=portfolio&p=6907"},"modified":"2019-10-18T17:28:06","modified_gmt":"2019-10-18T17:28:06","slug":"next-steps","status":"publish","type":"portfolio","link":"https:\/\/polifactory.test.polimi.it\/en\/portfolio\/next-steps\/","title":{"rendered":"Next Steps | DDMP"},"content":{"rendered":"

Distributed Design Market Platform \u2013 DDMP<\/a>\u00a0is a project funded by Creative Europe Program to implement the global network of\u00a0Fab Lab<\/a>\u00a0promoting and improving the connection between makers and designers with the European market.<\/p>\n

In the latter, alongside the growth of the Maker Movement and Fab Labs, have been created platforms such as Fablabs.io, developed by Fab City Research Lab of the Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia. This platform represents a place where Fab Labs are mapped, where knowledge sharing takes place, where projects are developed and where the community of makers discusses these topics. Starting from this initiative, the Creative Europe program is an opportunity to consolidate this network, focusing on the development of a European Distributed Design Market Platform for makers and designers.<\/p>\n

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YEAR 2| NEXT STEPS<\/strong><\/h3>\n

NEXT STEPS <\/strong>is an experimental initiative that stimulates designers, makers and patients (as user innovators) to co-design and prototype a collection of open source walking aids <\/strong>that can be distributed through digital platforms and materialized in Fab Labs.<\/p>\n

Starting from DDMP<\/a> perspective, NEXT STEPS <\/strong>aims to demonstrate how designers, makers and patients \u2013 supported by patient associations, caregivers and healthcare specialists \u2013 can pragmatically co-design, materialize and distribute new walking aids with real market potential.<\/p>\n

NEXT STEPS<\/strong> is an initiative developed thanks to the collaboration with AIG<\/strong> – Associazione Italiana Glicogenosi, <\/strong>a patient association that represents people affected by Glycogenosis, a rare and degenerative metabolic disease. AIG stimulates the involvement of patients in the co-design and prototyping of walking aids<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Thanks to NEXT STEPS, the patients will experiment a real patient innovation process.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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NEXT STEPS: HOW IT WORKS <\/strong><\/h3>\n

NEXT STEPS<\/strong> is articulated in three steps:<\/p>\n

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  1. \u201cChallenge\u201dphase<\/strong> (March to May 2019). The starting point is an open call to action<\/em> that stimulates the engagement of a group of patients that will be involved in the co-design of walking aids together with a team of designers and makers<\/em> del Politecnico di Milano. During the Challenge phase, the product ideas will be presented and shared with AIG Association, within one of more events. Patient innovators such as Antonella Ferrari or caregiver innovators such as Fabio Gorrasi will also be able to participate in this phase and the next ones.<\/li>\n
  2. \u201cMakers in Residence\u201d phase<\/strong> (May to September 2019) where patients interact with designers and makers supporting them in the development and prototyping the open source walking aids, having also the technical and scientific support provided by Polifactory, and medical and scientific support provided by Sanofi Genzyme.<\/li>\n
  3. \u201cPromotion of the ideas\u201d<\/strong> (September \u2013 October 2019) where the projects will be promoted on Distributed Design Market Platform<\/strong> (distributeddesign.eu) and presented during one or more events focused on design, making and\/or healthcare.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

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    NEXT STEPS PROJECTS:<\/strong><\/h3>\n

    The results of the first survey with the patients from AIG association, the suggestions received by the patient-innovators during the co-design workshop, and the feedbacks obtained interacting with patients and their families during the AIG meeting (see Annex A) evidences aspects that influence the design phase:<\/p>\n

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    • the aesthetical dimension of the walking aids is as important as working on functional aspects;<\/li>\n
    • walking aids tents to become physical extensions of the people. Personalization is an important issue because characterizes the identity of the walking aids in
      \norder to be “tuned” with that of their users;<\/li>\n
    • NEXT STEPS solutions must be adaptable to the walking aids already available on the market;<\/li>\n
    • the digital manufacturing processes and the digital technologies embedded in the walking aids have to be adaptable for DIY, makers and Fab Labs, craftsmanship but also industrial sector.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

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