Seam — seaming memory and love with inclusive technology

Seam is a product-service system to connect individuals with early-stage Alzheimer’s and their loved ones through soft technology.

Both user groups can communicate with each other by creating a routine of exchanging memory through photos, videos and live video calls. As individuals with early-stage Alzheimer’s suffer due to their decline…

Katharina Brunner and Inna Zrajaeva
Illustrations by Christina Bauer, Oliver Weglinski and Prithvi Ranjan

Performing co-creative workshops remotely is very different from
our experience in previous projects. Of course we all had conducted remote
interviews before, but practicing participatory design like this was new.

According to WHO (World Health Organization), Traditional and complementary medicine (T&CM) is an important and often underestimated health resource with many applications, especially in the prevention and management of lifestyle-related chronic diseases, and in meeting the health needs of aging populations.

Despite the wide range of applications, today, this health…

Thea helps building a community of support for mothers, moms and parents to be, which leads to trust in between and in themselves.

With our project we aim to connect and support the growth of a community of pregnant women, expacting parent regardless their gender and care providers. In order to achieve this, we have developed tangible parts as the heart of our concept: an app, a kit and media appearance. …

Introduction

This design guide was developed in order to describe the journey of 12 students of the Interaction Design programme of Umeå Institute of Design. The project addressed mobility justice in the gendered landscape focusing on the city of Umeå. What are the underlying social norms and ethical concerns that are…

A lot of the times urban mobility services seems available but not accessible to elderly citizens. This apparent information gap between the one who provides the service(s) and one who seeks the service(s) engenders a sense of injustice, eventually creating power differentials in democratic governance. In the course “Mobility Justice”…

Umeå is expanding at a rapid rate, the local transportation system must accommodate these changes. The mobility justice project is based on a collaborative conglomerate of various stakeholders, including the Umeå Institute of Design, RISE Interactive, Umeå Kommun, and the local bus service Ultra. …