Construct3D 2020

Join us on Sunday for a key hands-on design activity that will draw on everything you have learned from Construct3D over the course of the first three days, and your entire lives as humans. This is a design challenge perfectly suited to our 2020 Houston, Texas location: an interactive design hackathon focused on the role of 3D printing in the future of health care as related to space travel and even extraterrestrial colonization! 


Design thinking is a human-centered methodology that encourages empathy and rapid prototyping to understand user needs. The Jefferson Health Design Lab team will apply the lens of this methodology to this unique challenge using trusted approaches they use each year with medical students and other allies to invent solutions and products to better solve the problems of health care today.


In this design charette, participants will first join us for a fireside chat between Dr. Bon Ku and Melodie Yashar, moderated by conference co-founder Matt Griffin, that will establish the context for the design challenge, and introduce key technical and philosophical insights into unique aspects of this design problem space. The two will speak about the topics of the future of healthcare, space, and 3D printing. You will even learn a little about the history of emergency medicine protocols from past and current space missions!


Participants will then have the opportunity to work in teams on a set of design challenge prompts inspired by the fireside chat. The seasoned Jefferson team will guide these participants through the steps of design thinking -- activities such as interviewing and prototyping and presenting the opportunities each team uncovers.


Through this highly interactive session, participants will experience the design thinking methodology and how it can empower them to develop human-centered solutions. And perhaps prepare all of us for the unique new challenges of traveling off-earth, and even living there!


Session Schedule:
0900-0940: Fireside chat between Dr. Bon Ku and architect and space habitat designer Melodie Yashar, moderated by Construct3D’s Matt Griffin
0940-11:30: Kick-off Space Medicine Design Charrette
1130-1200: Wrap-up and share progress so far!