Blog posts July 2011
Food Innovation Friday from our guest blogger: Proposing alternative healthcare experiences
This week’s guest blogger, Alison Thomson, is a designer who has been collaborating with The Neuroimmunology Group at Queen Mary University and Barts and The London NHS Trust for over 2 years. Previous to that, she studied at the Royal College of Art. Through her work, she often explores ways in which communication and the quality of service provision in healthcare might be improved. In this blog post, she describes The Chronic Facility, a project which uses a restaurant setup as the model for imagining a future...
Nurses as innovators
Being a massive health geek now means that I get a daily digest of news from NHS Networks delivered to my inbox every day. There are loads of really interesting nuggets of information in it, and it’s a great way of keeping in touch.
Today I spotted a link that I...
Food Innovation Friday: Why don't supermarkets sell ugly fruit?
I always thought that the reason all cucumbers were straight was because consumers refused to buy crooked ones. Rows and rows of Orwellian-utopian-perfect fruit and vegetables, with not a blemish in site, in every supermarket bugged the hell out of me. I believed it was the population who not only wanted picture-perfect people but also wanted picture-perfect food. And I imagined the mountainous piles of rotting fruit and veg that was quite simply too visually offensive to appear on our plates and all the people around the world going hungry every day. What a...
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