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Podcast: Arts & Ideas
Episode: New Thinking: Design and health
Description: How a new material helps stroke patients recover and how mapping where infections and contamination happen helps staff training.New Generation Thinker Elsa Richardson hears from two leading designers whose new research ideas have transformed the lives of stroke survivors and the elderly. Laura Salisbury is founder of the Wearable MedTech Lab at the Royal College of Art and CEO of KnitRegen and Professor Alastair Macdonald is Senior Researcher in the School of Design at The Glasgow School of Art. They discuss the importance of collaborative design and testing usability. Laura tells us about her...