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T1 - ‘Making the dust fly’: (A case study of) design research promoting health and sustainability in addressing household infections
AU - Tsekleves, Emmanuel
AU - Ahorlu, Collins
AU - Darby, Andy
AU - Pickup, Roger
AU - de Souza, Dziedzom
AU - Boakye, Daniel
PY - 2022/7/3
Y1 - 2022/7/3
N2 - Global health crisis, such as antimicrobial resistance, threaten planetary health, as they have a direct impact on the environment, as well as to humans and animals. Personal and environmental hygiene form the best and most natural ways of reducing home infections and hence the need to take antibiotics. Despite this our understanding of cleaning in the home and interventions on home cleaning are limited. In this paper we present a project, which combined design research with environmental microbiology, to address this issue and to co-design sustainable cleaning interventions for human and planetary health. We focus on the design of a co-design workshop which led to the development of cleaning interventions tested for a month by several households. We share the challenges faced and the lessons learnt, which we envisage will help guide design researchers moving into this exciting research field of planetary and human health.
AB - Global health crisis, such as antimicrobial resistance, threaten planetary health, as they have a direct impact on the environment, as well as to humans and animals. Personal and environmental hygiene form the best and most natural ways of reducing home infections and hence the need to take antibiotics. Despite this our understanding of cleaning in the home and interventions on home cleaning are limited. In this paper we present a project, which combined design research with environmental microbiology, to address this issue and to co-design sustainable cleaning interventions for human and planetary health. We focus on the design of a co-design workshop which led to the development of cleaning interventions tested for a month by several households. We share the challenges faced and the lessons learnt, which we envisage will help guide design researchers moving into this exciting research field of planetary and human health.
U2 - https://doi.org/10.21606/drs.2022.317
DO - https://doi.org/10.21606/drs.2022.317
M3 - Conference contribution/Paper
T3 - DRS2022 Bilbao: Design Research Society Conference 2022
BT - DRS2022 Bilbao: Design Research Society Conference 2022
PB - Design Research Society
T2 - DRS 2022 Bilbao
Y2 - 25 June 2022 through 3 July 2022
ER -