OCAD hosting conference on design research and health

The Ontario College of Art and Design is hosting a conference on the relationship of design research to health. Cultural Knowledge and the Healthy Society: A Research & Innovation Summit is being held November 23 - 25, 2009 at OCAD. This is an excellent opportunity to engage and interact with colleagues interested in the relationships between health, health informatics and design disciplines.

Cultural Knowledge and the Healthy Society: A Research & Innovation Summit was born of the belief that adding the knowledge and insights from design, cultural industries and creative/artistic research to health research will lead to a more effective system of health care and prevention as well as foster technological innovation.

This 2.5-day summit will bring together leading thinkers in Canada and internationally in the areas of design, art/creative research, cultural industries, health, humanities, social science, science and engineering to explore the possibilities of this interdisciplinary collaboration.

This event consists of free public talks (HospiTALKs) on topics that interest a large audience as well as small informal think tank discussions (inKamerA) on policy and research issues that will be attended by invited guests.