Vanessa Julia Carpenter shares how interdisciplinary collaboration is closing this gap, creating meaningful solutions for health challenges like menopause, with insights that resonate across all genders.
How can we overcome bias in health and technology design when we’re often not even aware of it?
Smart wearables are revolutionizing how we monitor health and fitness, presenting exciting opportunities in women's health—an area historically overlooked in medical studies. Vanessa Julia Carpenter shares how interdisciplinary collaboration is closing this gap, creating meaningful solutions for health challenges like menopause, with insights that resonate across all genders.
This webinar showcases an innovative KEA course where students combined engineering and jewelry design to prototype functional wearables for over 34 menopause symptoms. These projects challenge conventional thinking: How do we design for unmeasurable conditions like anxiety or brain fog? How can wearables make a tangible impact on real lives?
Explore how addressing bias in tech benefits everyone, revealing lessons in hardware design, interdisciplinary teamwork, and innovation that resonate far beyond health.
About Vanessa:
Vanessa’s more than 20 years working in the field of emerging technology and interaction design. She holds a PhD in Designing for Meaningfulness in Future Smart Products from Aalborg University, Copenhagen and is a founding partner at Femtech Studios, the Co-Leader of FabLab Ærø and Interaction Designer and Founder at Kintsugi Design. She is also one of our "IDA Experts" from the IDA Ekspertkorp and sits on the Danish Design Council.
