Flora: A Concept in Healthcare

June 4th, 2010

Design: Lydia Ellen Cambron
Client:
Date: 2009

A conceptual project designed with B.C. Children’s Hospital and Design for Development, these hospital objects are a serious departure from the way that hospital equipment is typically designed. Obviously the real issues of sterilization, disposabilty, and costs are essential, but Cambron goes a step further. Use biometric feedback, like a wilting plant needing water, she designed the objects to broadcast their function and use. Cambron explains “We all understand the vocabulary of plant life and living organisms. Perhaps the medical devices that support our lives should behave in a way we can all understand”.

-Todd Falkowsky

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