How can design research improve our health, and is it better to design for prevention or for the cure?  We kick off our triptych on Design & Health with Delft Design Professor Maaike Kleinsmann. Ianus and co-host Marc talk with her about working with healthcare professionals as a design researcher, what all this new remote-sensing health-tech for consumers means for personal health challenges and the issue of health data and privacy. And dealing with Strava-men in tight lycra suits. 

Professor Kleinsmann is initiator and/or contributor of several large-scale health research projects in The Netherlands, including Healthy Start, the E-Health Living Lab and the Delft Design Cardiolab. 

References in this episode:
Invention: A Life – James Dyson → https://www.dyson.co.uk/james-dyson/invention-a-life Encanto  (Disney+) → https://www.disneyplus.com/en-gb/movies/encanto/33q7DY1rtHQH One Hundred Years of Solitude – Gabriel Garcia Marquez → https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/320.One_Hundred_Years_of_Solitude Mountain bike routes The Netherlands → https://www.mtbroutes.nl/