Defining cutting edge Welfare Design in health, Dr. Andrea Corradini
Denmark’s first professor in Welfare Design, Dr. Andrea Corradini, explains the groundbreaking five year collaboration between Kolding School of Design and Lillebaelt Hospital in Denmark. His work to realize the ‘social ‘experiment’ focuses on how calculated applications of design (eg. adjustable lighting at the nurses station) and not across the board spending cuts, actually save money, increase productivity, quality of services, patient care, and efficiency. The professor tells us the project originates from the perception of ‘welfare’ as a predominant social goal in Denmark, in direct contradiction to other western societies. Dr. Corradini mentions successes thus far and future obstacles he anticipates. He highlights ‘human factor’ as the determining element for this project to succeed or fail. He explains the need to develop a feasible approach to facilitate healthcare professionals to shift perspectives and adjust to an alternative, sometimes radical, point of view. Interviewed by Venetia I. Kyritsi for Tech Talks Central.
Andrea Corradini, Dr.
Professor WSR at the Kolding School of Design and Lillebaelt Hospital, Denmark
Dr. Andrea Corradini (b. 1970) has a degree in mathematics and computer science from the University of Trento in Italy and a PhD in robotics and neuroinformatics from the Ilmenau University of Technology in Germany. He has previously been an external lecturer at the University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen Business Academy, and IT University of Copenhagen. Andrea Corradini has also been an associate professor at an American university and various European universities, including University of Southern Denmark in Kolding from 2008-2010. The professor will divide his time evenly between the Kolding School of Design and Lillebaelt Hospital, at the research unit at Vejle Hospital.
Specialties: Welfare Design
Interviewed at the MOBIHEALTH 2014, the 4th International Conference on Wireless Mobile Communication and Healthcare - "Transforming healthcare through innovations in mobile and wireless technologies", that took place in Athens, Greece, November 3–5, 2014