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A Little Bit of Theory and Love


Share/Bookmark [This is a bit ironic that I’m writing about the love just after Fran’s post about the ROI of Love. Something’s in the air, I suppose.] I’m currently wrapping up the design research on a project around remote asthma … Continue reading

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The Artist, the Scientist and the Doctor in Each of Us


What is immensely hopeful is that the new science of morality offers a foundational, empirical, legitimizing rationale for health care designers to ply their trade.

Instead of being seen merely as artists whose skills are primarily aesthetic, or even simply decorative, the new science of morality connects design principles directly to the life and death matter of human healing. The affinity of aesthetics and morality, once celebrated mainly by poets, artists and philosophers, is now a proven scientific fact.

Viewed through the lens of this new perspective on human nature, designers should and must be regarded as full and active collaborators in the health care process. Continue reading

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