2047 – Instead of treating diseases, the focus is now on prevention and early diagnosis. Staying healthy is the motto. Between utopia and dystopia, the viewers are challenged to fill the gaps in the fiction themselves.
Our approach was based on extensive research into disruptive technologies and current trends in the field of health. Based on this research, we were able to cluster the topic of health for us.
After setting possible focus points, we discussed and collected our thoughts in a futures wheel, allowing us to move our thinking space from the near future to a possible distant future.
Going forward, we continued asking us the following relevant questions:
The scenario moves between technological and organic, individual vs anonymous. First moods helped us to visualize our scenario in order to think of possible artifacts. A cluster of possible tasks of doctors within our scenario and processes in it, finally allowed us to elaborate our scenario.
As a result of digitalization and mobile health, many online platforms were founded that turned people into prosumers of their own health. Increasingly diagnoses are not with given by doctors, but through smart spaces and intimate technologies that monitor not only physical health but mental health.
Holistic Health Engineering has established itself as an independent degree program – graduates have in-depth knowledge at the intersection of computer science, psychology, biotechnology and medicine.
In the health centers, Holistic Health Engineers discuss individual needs and treatments with their patients. Feelings and emotions play a major role in diagnosis and health planning. Thus, for the last 10 years, there has also been a medical prescription for social interaction away from digital spaces.
Healthness becomes a luxury lifestyle that many desire but not all can afford.
Regular participation in check-ups, as well as attendance at courses and lecture series in the new health centers, add to your personal health account and serve to raise awareness and provide health education. It is now also possible to pay using personal health data and access authorizations.
This allows individual goodies to be purchased. Breathable vitamins and direct blood enrichment are experiencing a boom, beneficial bacteria belong on the menu, and emotions can be actively influenced as needed.
Treatments and medications and nutritional supplements adapt to individual values and physical requirements. Medications, treatment plans and preventive measures are discussed together and put together individually.
Set in the world of a holistic health engineer in the year 2047, we developed various artifacts on the topic of the healthcare system. The individual artifacts find their place in the fictional scenario of a holistic health engineering practice and illustrate new tasks of medical professionals as well as new focuses and contents in the exchange between doctors and patients.
Our goal here was to create as much irritation as possible in the viewing process and thus a more intense engagement with the content and themes presented – therefore, the individual artifacts should appear as realistic as possible. Our choice fell on CAD construction and subsequent renderings. The individual artifacts were then located within a fictional practice.
We divided the design of the artifacts between us, with the artifacts presented below being modelled by me.
The bacteriarium is the heart of the practice. In it, the health engineer grows useful bacterial cultures, which then serve as the basis for as health goodies sold bacteRias.
The first ideas were quickly sketched with vectors and then copied in Blender. During the implementation, it quickly became clear that the design in 3D did not work as intended. The first idea was therefore fundamentally revised and rethought.
The practice table of the future mediates a new relationship between doctor and patient. The encounter takes place at eye level, communication takes place together with the table as a tool. Personal data from the health record or from Intimate Tech can be shared on it and used by the health engineer as a descriptive explanatory basis.
Instead of representing a physical boundary, the table thus becomes a facilitator of information and takes an active role in the conversation.
Health Goodies are handmade products, which are custom produced in the field. For example, lollipops, candies or BacteRias, which can be consumed by screwing them onto drinking bottles, can be purchased in the online store.
The goodies have specific applications in the body and, due to their advanced development and quality, adapt to the individual values and physical requirements of the consumer.
In order to make the context and connections of individual artifacts understandable, I build a website for a fictional holistic health engineering office in the year 2047, the “Praxis Holly Sander”. The website was implemented with Webflow.
Visitors are introduced to the scenario world. Besides an introduction to the practice including the holistic health engineer, the services are presented. Services that can be purchased outside of appointments can be found in the store.
