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Project of an Empathic tool to increase safety in emergency evacuations.
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> PROJECT DESCRIPTION:
SERVICE DESIGN + PRODUCT DESIGN + INTERACTIVE DESIGN + GRAPHIC DESIGN
This project is a course based on empathic and interactive tools, where you increase the security in case of emergency evacuation.
THE PROJECT RECOMMENDS THE REVISION OF ROUTINES RELATED TO THE PREPARATION OF PERSONNEL TO EMERGENCE EVACUATION.
THIS KIT IS A USEFUL IMPROVING AND EMPATHIC TOOL TO BE USED REGULARLY DURING TRAINING.
THE KIT IS USEFUL FOR EVERYONE THAT WANT BE MORE PREPARED IN THIS KIND OF RISK AND IT IS PARTICULARLY SUITABLE FOR PUBLIC AND PRIVATE COMPANIES AS WELL AS EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS AND COLLECTIVES.
The course 'I SKOENE DINE' ('in your shoes') is a kind of managed design process, with the aim to raise capacity in people that use this kit to help themselves and others to evacuate in emergency situations from a higher floor.
It encourages you to put yourself in someone else's shoes, both to arouse consciousness, awareness and stimulate aid-thinking, through the support of an easy-to-use simulation kit, made to be worn and active used by people.
After being introduced and tested about safety and technical displacement techniques included first aid, you are invited to practice for emergence-escape with 'someone else's shoes', in order to learn how to help and to be helped in a right way.
The process is controlled on the basis of an interactive web-based tool.
> BACKGROUND:
The Lab 'I SKOENE MINE' ('in my shoes') that I arranged earlier in the process of approaching this issue about emergency evacuation is the background that unveiled the real necessity to help in an effective way to deal with this risk (and applicable from today, without the need of additional time for special preparations or constructions, since this tool is based on people) and with the capacity and peculiarity to be built from extreme users point of view, something that will guarantee safety for all (according to fundamental of universal design principles).
Through this lab that involved actively extreme users (in a participative and inclusive process) it was found the need and efficiency of a tool then developed 'I SKOENE DINE' course concept.
Various people were invited to participate to the lab and to describe their 'own shoes' and their own experiences in relation with the theme. In addition to providing a new angle on which were the real priorities, the lab begun to experiment the potentials of empathy in relation to security and the need for 'good' evacuation routines.
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The kit is still waiting for funding to be finished developed.