UC COVID-19 Design Initiative
Design Innovation for Community Impact
In an effort to connect designers, makers, and healthcare professionals, we are converging a team of passionate individuals to ideate, test and manufacture solutions to help address the COVID-19 crisis.
Our motivation is to be more organized in our collective efforts with the crisis and the needs for rapid creative innovation primarily for our healthcare stakeholders–so far (PPE equipment: masks, shields, respirators, ventilators components, thermometers, nasal swaps, etc).
- Forum and collaboration space to merge talents towards creating agile on-demand innovations for the crisis
- Connect with healthcare leadership to evaluate solutions
- Connect with industry partners to scale viable solutions
- Provide means for community involvement
- Community manufacturing
- Proposed needs
- Accumulate volunteers
- Resource to relevant information for creative and problem-solving solutions
This Design Innovation Group is in partnership with the following
University of Cincinnati organizations:
- College of DAAP
- 1819 Innovation Hub
- UC Medical Center
- Cincinnati Children’s Hospital
- College of Engineering
- Office of Innovation
Industry Partners:
- Sew Valley
- Hemmer Design
- Maker Gear