About the Midway:
Form is a versatile word: it can refer to shape, structure, or even a concept, while it can also mean bringing something into existence, such as a specific object. This midway exhibition is a collection of objects formed through a series of workshops with people who live with Multiple Sclerosis (MS), caregivers, and medical professionals. The objects act as entry points, helping people from different areas of life and disciplines reflect, connect, and engage with the insights and meanings embedded within them. These objects, and the meanings they carry, are the first step toward re-imagining the clinic of the future.
Project Background:
Clinic of the Future: Designing Dialogues for Care aims to expand our lens of what care means and to re-imagine a form of care that reclaims human connections and allows people to feel more seen and heard.
Project goal: To investigate how a form-based design process, which includes making objects and mapping, could support different ways of communicating experiences of illness, care, and concern. To investigate how these methods help in reflection and transformation towards a re-imagined clinic. I am working together with ten participants living with Multiple Sclerosis (MS), caregivers, and the Bergen MS research group.
Bio:
Amy is a multidisciplinary designer focused on re-imagining healthcare. Her interest in improving the way care is provided comes from both her personal experience of living with an autoimmune disease and meeting many people who suffer silently with both mental and physical health challenges. Her recent work has involved developing toolkits filled with tangible forms to help people communicate the complexity of their pain and illness experiences. She continues to explore art and design methods to open up dialogue with people inside and outside of medicine. The core of her practice is centered on designing experiences that allow for discussing, questioning, and re-imagining the way care is provided. Amy is Canadian and graduated with a Bachelor of Environmental Design from the University of British Columbia (2015) and a Master’s in Design from the University of Bergen (2021). She is currently a Ph.D. candidate in Artistic Research in the Department of Design at the University of Bergen, Norway.