“Although our starting point can seem small, only targeting a specific group of people, in the end the result may cover a far bigger user group and have a chance to make real change.”
Team
NO PRESSURE
Aalto University - Finland
Team No Pressure (SILVER winner) is made up of five design students from Aalto University with different backgrounds: humanitarian design activism, systemic thinking, empathic design among others. The students are currently enrolled in the Master in Collaborative and Industrial Design at Aalto University, and one of them is pursuing the Master in Creative Sustainability. They describe themselves as empathic design students who aim to create social change by having a meaningful impact on people in vulnerable situations.
Team members - Jooeun Park (South Korea), Shreya Sood (India), Bohan Sun (China), Qianfei Gu (China), Zhengshuang Han (China)
“Coaching this talented team was focused on encouraging them to do exactly what they were doing, while offering additional perspectives and providing personal opinions on the design choices.”
Assessment coach, Ora Peled Nakash, IBM Studios Haifa, Israel
Service concept
RO+ - a hassle-free healthcare journey for Roma people. RO+ is a platform where users, healthcare providers and social service workers can access information in one place and coordinate with each other on referrals, appointments and the status of the temporary ID to ease the Roma’s sickness journey.
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and co-organized with SERVICE DESIGN COLLEGE, in
collaboration with IBM and the Ellen MacArthur Foundation.
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