Stephen Downs, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
Designing Everyday Life to be Healthier In the U.S., we spend more on health care than anywhere in the world, but we’re less healthy. While there are many reasons for this result, one is that we’ve created an environment in which it has become hard to be healthy. We eat poorly, we’re largely sedentary, we don’t sleep enough and we’re increasingly socially isolated. But our behaviors are driven by the cultural, physical and technological environments we’ve created. We’re asking people to swim upstream and our response is to tell people to swim harder. It’s not working. Instead we should ask what it would take to reverse the direction of the river. We often use tech to try to change individual behaviors by providing data, information and prompts. What if instead we used tech to re-shape our environments to make healthy lifestyles the default? What if we re-engineered daily life — how we eat, sleep, move from place to place, and entertain ourselves — with health as a design goal? What if, instead of treating health like an app that sits on top of an operating system biased toward unhealthy behaviors, we built health deep into our collective OS? This talk would examine how technology has historically shaped our daily lives, identify behaviors that designers could help facilitate through creative applications of emerging technologies and showcase illustrative examples of tech that’s starting to take on the challenge.
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- 1. Designing Everyday Life to Be Healthier Steve Downs Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
- 3. Original image by Max Roser, Our World in Data. Extension by Eric Topol.
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- 8. photo credit: Rafiq Sarlie
- 12. “The fundamental answer to why so many humans are now getting sick from previously rare illnesses is that many of the body's features were adapted in environments from which we evolved, but have become maladapted in the modern environments we have now created.”
- 13. Photo by Drew Farwell via Unsplash.com
- 15. health is not an app
- 16. “We shape our buildings; thereafter they shape us.”
- 17. “We shape our buildings technologies; thereafter they shape us.”
- 25. building health into the OS
- 28. moving around
- 29. sleeping
- 34. f.lux
- 35. Park Time
- 38. photo credits: CommScope, Wiyre Media
- 39. photo credit: Olabi Makerspace
- 41. photo credits: Nest, Scott Lewis, Sho Hashimoto and Scott Lowensohn
- 42. photo credits: Karlis Dambrans, Scott Lewis and Marc van der Chijs
- 43. photo credit: Mediated Matter Group, MIT Media Lab
- 44. What Comes Next?