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Design Students Create Innovative Medical Equipment, Inspiring Hospital RoomsGood design won't cure illness, but a group of art students in Halifax are trying to prove that it can make you feel better.
Since January 2003, design students from NSCAD University have worked with hospital staff and patients at Halifax's QEII Health Sciences Centre to improve the hospital's medical equipment and public spaces. Their creations were exhibited at the health centre this week.
NSCAD teacher Carlo Testa helped conceive Design for Health after visiting a family member in hospital.
"You feel like you are in a very depressing place - the choice of colours, poor air quality, poor lights, poor furniture," Testa said of his experience.
"You find extremely committed staff, [who do] everything possible to make you better, [in] an environment that does everything possible to make you worse."
The project's goal was to design more practical hospital equipment and more welcoming physical environments. Students created a range of prototypes, including a spill-proof cup for patients with failing hands, an ergonomic, football-shaped reflex hammer and an easily adjustable, padded lifting belt.
All designs were tested and evaluated by health professionals, some of whom are already using the instruments.
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