Head-Up; a case study of participatory design as knowledge synthesis

Winner of judges award for best ‘market stall’, judges drawn from the international organising committee NIHR i4i project ‘Head-Up’ evidence safari – A Participatory Design Project as an example of Knowledge Co-creation, Knowledge Synthesis and Knowledge Mobilisation. This exhibition will be a project timeline from identification of unmet need with and by patients, through to current status (live 150 patient evaluation, patent granted, CE mark certified, negotiations with commercial partners). Along the project timeline, different kinds of evidence will be shown, there for viewers to interact with. This will include: • Transcripts of workshops and interviews • Samples of existing provision • Data and outputs from a comfort assessment of existing devices • Illustrations of concepts and product development • Prototypes showing links to moments in participatory design workshop that led to these prototypes • Test rigs built to test the product as it was developed • Engineering Simulation model used to test product concepts • Health Economics evaluation • Evaluations – protocol, data, analysis • Final product and product packaging • Patents • Evaluation • CE mark certificates • Technical and design files • Commercialisation package The timeline will illustrate how making and collective, participatory making was used as a means of drawing out this knowledge, creating new knowledge and synthesising this knowledge. Different elements within the timeline will be colour coded to illustrate different forms of knowledge, where the knowledge originated from and how it was ‘synthesised’ into the final solution via the design process.