Society and Culture, Students
Salutogenic Design: Bringing the 'Person' Into Personalization in Healthcare by Designing for Disabilities of the Hand: Stephanie Rossi, MDes in Industrial Design
Hand Models, Jan 2024, Digital photo
2023–24 Gallery Information
FAB Gallery, 1-1 Fine Arts Building
University of Alberta
(780) 492-2081
gallery@ualberta.ca
Gallery Hours
Tuesday to Friday from 11:00am–5:00pm
Saturday from 12:00pm–3:00pm
Admission is free.
Second floor gallery can only be accessed by stairs at this time. We apologize for this significant barrier to access.
Salutogenic Design: Bringing the 'Person' Into Personalization in Healthcare by Designing for Disabilities of the Hand: Stephanie Rossi, MDes in Industrial Design
February 20 - March 9, 2024
FAB Gallery Main Floor
Please note that FAB Gallery will be closed Saturday, Feb. 24, for Reading Week. We will return to our regular hours on Tuesday, Feb. 27.
Reception
University of Alberta faculty, staff, students and invited guests
Friday, March 1, 2024 | 7-9 pm | FAB Gallery
About the Show
This exhibition explores the intersection of design, technology, and health through the lens of salutogenesis. Salutogenesis is a model of well-being that focuses on the complexities of an individual, such as needs, wants, values, emotions, and interests. Through the lens of salutogenesis and design, we can explore how embracing each individual's unique needs and preferences leads to new solutions vital to overall well-being beyond the physical body. This exhibition shows the marriage of these concepts through design for hand disabilities, and challenges the traditional medical model by encouraging a more holistic, emotional, and empathetic approach with design integration to enhance quality of life.
About the Artist
Stephanie Rossi is a designer from Calgary, Alberta. She holds a Bachelor of Design with an Industrial Design focus from the University of Alberta. During her undergraduate studies, she developed an interest in concepts of health and well-being. Stephanie wants to explore how to increase the quality of life for individuals by looking at what people truly need through empathy and understanding, but most importantly, the concept of personhood. She wants to demonstrate that understanding an individual's unique characteristics and complexities can create emotionally valuable outcomes and increase overall well-being. By looking at design for disability, she hopes this demonstrates the importance of looking "within" the person: a complex and important human being.
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- Alcuin Society’s Awards for Excellence in Book Design in Canada
- CodesWitcher: Lisa Mayes, MFA Intermedia
- Built to Last: Architecture, Memory, and the Imaginary Atrium. Works by Alicja Habisiak-Matczak & Alex R.M. Thompson
- want and fear: Emily Legleitner, MFA in Printmaking
- Implicit Grid: Riddhi Patel, MFA Painting
- The Home: Mohammad Abbasi, MFA Painting
- Comic Sense: a Ludic Exploration of 3 Contemporary Comics
Past Exhibitions (2022-23)
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- Emerging Practices: Celebrating Visual Art Certificate Students
- The Institution of Knowledge
- I don't know how, but I'm taller: 2023 Bachelor of Fine Arts Graduation Show
- in flux: 2023 Bachelor of Design Graduation Show
- Know Thyself as a Virtual Reality
- The Alcuin Society Awards for Excellence in Book Design in Canada (2020 or 2021)
- Jill Miller: FUTURE PERFECT
- Yilu Xing, MFA Printmaking: 吃得开 eat the open
- Transitional Impressions: Visualizing Environmental Change
- alissa rossi, MFA Printmaking: The View From Where
- Chelsey Campbell, MFA Printmaking: all of us, also