The goal of our project was to work in collaboration with the people of Dwenase, Ghana to improve their health center using a human-centered co-design process. Human-centered means empathizing with the local people, allowing designers to visualize and understand the effects that potential solutions could have on the community. Additionally, co-design is working with the community to develop solutions together, since they know best what they need and what will work. We aimed to blend together contributions from the community - the “local experts” - with that of the “academic experts” to create the best possible solution.

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Creator

• Gere, Nathan J.
• Whittall, Fay X.
• Gordon, Emily Alyssa
• Marzoratti, Alejandro M.

Publisher

• Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Identifier

• E-project-040520-122634

Palabra Clave

• Health Care and Technology

Advisor

• Krueger, Robert

Year

• 2020

Center

• Kyebi, Ghana Project Center - IQP

Sponsor

• Village of Dwenase

Date created

• 2020-04-05

Resource type

• Interactive Qualifying Project

Rights statement

• In Copyright