Works
Relating to Things
Book cover artwork for Bloomsbury. Relating to Things: Design, Technology and the Artificial, Edited by the excellent Heather Wiltse.
Patient autonomy in dementia
This diagram describes the complexities of suffering in dementia; the loss of a biographical self before the physical self, the…
Being on time
What does ‘being on time’ mean across different cultures? Borne out of a fascination on how people interpret time, and…
A planned death
Knowing when and how you will die could be a good thing. It would allow you to maximise your quality…
Assessing suffering
From 2020 Dutch citizens are required to wear “quality-of-life” jewellery, to collect vital statistics, as well as assign a team…
Design Now!
Søren Rosenbak and I developed a branding for Design Now! seminar at Aalto University in Helsinki, Finland. The seminar was…
An early diagnosis
In order to be able to make any decisions about end-of-life in dementia, it is essential to have an early…
Not a burden?
A common reason for an euthanasia request in dementia is that people do not want to become a burden. This…
The Plug
This design fiction critically investigates Advance Euthanasia Directives in Dementia based on person autonomy. aed-plug.com
Contextual euthanasia timeline
I wanted to make clear how the euthanasia debate is influenced primarily by medical innovation. Since medicine has improved to…
Dead man’s switch
A dead man’s switch is a switch that is automatically operated if the human operator becomes incapacitated. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_man%27s_switch I am interested…
Canary in the coal mine
Your own “canary” that will measure levels of acceptability of your living conditions – depending on personalised criteria. The canary…
Foundation 5
We set up an initiative in bringing together Emergency Medicine and Design, resulting in Foundation 5. Foundation 5 is a…
Dementia book
How can design be meaningful for dementia patients?
