Technology is the answer, but what was the question?
- CEDRIC PRICE
In the present push to a digital-first world, this question is more relevant than ever.
With a first degree in electronics and electrical engineering and a large part of my career development was in technology delivery (from software engineer for gaming and finance software to solutions architect using space technology). I feel I can appreciate the nuances in raising and answering Cedric Price's question. Indeed, every operational technology involves people, so it's not like the question have not been considered in technology deliveries. Still, I was dissatisfied with the limitation of the solution-thinking-first approach. So I have retrained as a design researcher so that I can expand into the problem-thinking-first approach. However, I do not see the two approaches as a dichotomy.
I am on a quest to develop participatory methods to understand the contexts in which technology sits, the consequences and the way towards desirable futures. Are you on a similar quest?
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Stephanie Pau - Short CV
Talks/PublicationsElsevier Futures Journal // 2020 New Spaces for Healthcare Futures Studies: Connecting Existing Theory to Deeper Participatory Practice (journal paper) Design4Health Conference (NL) // 2020 Beyond speculation - Using imperfect experts for designing the collective futures of healthcare for space (conference paper) Royal College of Art // 2020 Seminar: Designing for Future Unknowns at Design Futures Seminar (Online) Royal College of Art // 2018, 2019, 2020 Visiting Lecturer "Robotics?" in The Fifth State Workshop: Speculating the Human-Robot Futures "Making Senses" in Trans-humanism Grand Challenge: Design for Safety Intelligient Mobility Design Center // 2019 Poster: Humanity Centered Design at Transformation Symposium Earlier Works // before 2017 Speaker at TEDxEastEnd Society Beyond Borders: The Curious Case of Curiosity Research Projects at Imperial College London: Connected Coffee Table, Affective Wardrobe |
Creative FacilitationVirtual World // 2020 Alternative Futures Workshops Thinking with hands (Online) x4 Imperial College London // 2020 From PPE to Spacesuits Producer of a series of online conversations with NASA's spacesuit maker, astronauts, healthcare professionals and alliance. Design Council @ Virtual World // 2020 Online Roundtable Commercial Determinants of Health Design Council @ Virtual World // 2020 Online Design Sprints Online Co-Creation Workshops Cityscapes and Infrastructure for Health and Wellbeing Royal College of Art // 2019 XHealth Lab II Design with People: Futures of Healthcare in Space Royal College of Art // 2019 XHealth Lab A design game: Co-speculating the futures of healthcare in space RCA Short Courses @ Design Museum // 2018, 2019 Design Thinking & Innovation Executive Masterclass Visual scribe and facilitation assistant to Jeremy Myerson (Chair of Design at Helen Hamlyn Centre for Design) Electromagnetic Fields (Festival) // 2018 Speculative design of health and well-being in space for future adventurers A design research workshop to explore space medicine scenarios through improvisation/acting and "object storming". Borders Session (Festival) // 2018 Living off Earth II Lab A design research workshop to co-create two tales of Mars exploration scenarios with participants. Producer and curator of SensoryXD, a health wearables fashion show, and a corresponding conference track on Healthcare and Design at Giant Health Event 2017 Earlier Works // before 2017 Producer of a series of hackathons, talks and co-organiser of unconferences, all of which are related to space exploration Producer of a summer festival of art x space tech: Galactic Fete |
Awards/Solutions
Royal Society of Medicine // 2018 Design against Never Events Winner of RSM Hackathon on re-designing the flow of information to reduce wrong site surgery with surgeons and surgical trainees. Satellite Applications Catapult // 2013 Winner of Space in Apps Hackathon Prototyped a solution for toilet problems on cross-country trains using satellite communications systems and Raspberry Pi in a project entitled "Stuff Happens In Trains". Plasticity Tech Founded and closed a heallth/wearable tech startup Satellite Applications Catapult A strategy for applying space assets and technologies to health(care) Satellite Applications Catapult Solutions architecture for satellite applications, including solutions for disasters response in a developing country, satellite ground stations Technology/innovation implementation and delivery in a wide range of industries and organisations since 2002. Education
MRes Healthcare & Design (2017-2019)
Space Systems at UCL Centre for Systems Engineering (2015, short course)
Curating and Exhibition Management (2007, short course)
MEng Electronics & Electrical Engineering with Management (2000-2004)
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