Studiohead are supporting Imperial College London at the Cheltenham Festival of Science this weekend, where school children and members of the public can try their hand at being a surgeon.

The portable operating theatres we designed for Imperial College School of Medicine are proving a hit with aspiring medics.

Read about this at Imperial College News

Read about this on the Cheltenham Festivals blog

Studiohead director Cian Plumbe has contributed as author to the new publication Innovation With People, launched at last weeks Innovation for All 2010 conference in Oslo.

The book is a comprehensive guide to inclusive design principles, written for the business sector as well as design practitioners, and includes examples of good practice including Studiohead’s TwoTone Phone, which we did for BT while at the Helen Hamlyn Centre, Royal College of Art.

Cian’s contribution, as co-author,  was to provide the designer’s perspective and to describe hands on tools for applying inclusive design and research methods.

Innovation with People is edited by Onny Eikhaug and Rama Gheerawo, and published by the Norwegian Design Council

Studiohead traveled to Miami recently together with the team from Imperial College to participate in the 14th OTTAWA conference. The conference ran from the 17 – 19 May and focussed on the assessment of competence in medicine and the healthcare professions. We were showcasing the Distributed Simulation platform that we have developed for Imperial College. Cian Plumbe, director of Studiohead, was there to present the features of the design to the predominantly medical audience and to describe the ongoing design work that we are doing.