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Project, Designing for Dignity

This is a Project. It was designed by Manuela Aguirre and Jan Kristian Strømsnes. It is dated 2012. It is a part of the department.

Oslo, Norway

Responding to a notable increase in sexual assault in Oslo, a product and service design student team worked with stakeholders—doctors, nurses, social workers, and police—to redesign the entire prevention and response system to be less clinical, but more dignified and comforting to sexual assault survivors. Design workshops led to three coordinated design responses: a soothing safety blanket for survivors; a customized patient education system to guide survivors through medical, social, and legal systems; and guidelines for creating restorative, reassuring interiors for a patient care clinic through lighting, color, and signage.

It is credited Safety Blanket and Sketchbook: Courtesy of Manuela Aguirre and Jan Kristian Strømsnes.

This object was previously on display as a part of the exhibition Designing Peace.

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