Date of Award
Spring 5-30-2020
Document Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Master of Industrial Design
Department
Industrial Design
First Advisor
Agatha Haines
Second Advisor
Leslie Fontana
Third Advisor
Yuji Ikeda
Abstract
This project analyzes the role that culture and demographics play in interventions within a pre-existing system network. The research is geared towards understanding how healthcare systems demand different solutions across cultural and geographical boundaries. My work acknowledges and highlights the unimportance given to non-clinical services which results in a stark contrast between the ground reality versus the theory of healthcare design. To approach these larger domains of region-specific healthcare problems, I conducted research in the form of case studies, interviews, and on-site observation on three levels: urban tier 1, urban tier 2, and rural. The resultant design, essentially a culmination of transfer board, stretcher and bed as utilities, aims at providing ease of transfers and waiting related services through a flexible modular system that may be operated by untrained users.
Recommended Citation
Madhav, Vidur, "Lift a life" (2020). Masters Theses. 570.
https://digitalcommons.risd.edu/masterstheses/570
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