Jose Gomez Marquez

Jose Gomez-Marquez

Appropriate Technology Participatory Design “We know what you need” “Tell us what you need, We’ll design it”

Co - Creation “Let’s design together”

 Medical

Device Innovation for the Next Four Billion

     Global Collaboration Partners   Accelerated Product Development

Priority 

Accelerated Product Development

CPS, Collaborative Public Space (Breznitz)

CPS

Collaborativ e Innovation

Expensive/ High Impact

Impact

Affordable/ High Impact

Resources

Affordable/ Low Appropriate Impact

Expensive/ Low Appropriate Impact 7

SNAP

Simple Nucleic Acid Processing Development Team: MIT Mechanical Engineer, BMW Mechanical Engineer, Art Center Industrial Designer, MIT Biologist, and Guinean Bricklayer who was a Red Cross Field Volunteer

 Card

enabled community glucometers  Biometric driven patient history    What’s

next

 Open Source

Testing Strips

Disease Surveillance

 Hybridization   Vintage Technologies

+ Smart Design/Tech = New Solutions  Taking the improvisation and engineering solutions   Bottom up observation   Be trendsetting, not trendy  Context shifting  Distributed Systems  Crowdsourcing 

 Hybridization

+

Coca Cola Spacer for Asthma Inhalers

Some examples Development of in-country manufacturing methods of lab-onchip technology  Xurography brings the cost of microfluidic prototyping down to $300-400 per lab 

Some Examples 

Cell manufacturers of tuberculosis compliance diagnostics using local resources

Some Examples 

A video conference discussing autodisable syringe designs with Nicaraguan and MIT design coaches

Lots of hats = Better ideas

KNOCK ON LOTS OF DOORS TALK TO A LOT OF PEOPLE ASK QUESTIONS AND LISTEN

Your first idea is important, but be confident enough to let it go since your second, third or fourth may be even better.

Learn how your target users improvise. There’s often an invention hidden in that solution waiting for a bit of engineering.

Great solutions are often the result of a mashup of vintage technologies with modern ones.

It’s not just about what you can cook up in the lab. It’s really about what your user need. Talk to them!