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The Precision Medicine and the Future of Cancer project was jointly conceived by the Innovation School at Glasgow School of Art and the Institute of Cancer Sciences at the University of Glasgow. Graduating year Product Design students from the Innovation School were presented with a challenge-based project to produce a vision of the future based on current trends that relate to Precision Medicine(PM) and Cancer treatment. This project involved working closely with scientists, clinicians, patients, industry and academic professionals from Glasgow University, staff at Queen Elizabeth University Hospital and Clinical Innovation Zone, staff at Beatson West of Scotland Cancer Centre, Patient Representatives and external design experts from Studio AndThen and GOODD design consultancy. The objective of this project was to investigate, in both analytical and speculative ways, future forms and functions of cancer treatment and care in relation to Precision Medicine, to develop future scenarios and design artefacts, services, and the experiences associated with them. One of the most significant societal shifts currently taking place within the field of PM is the transformation around what it means to be a patient and a professional working within this context. The public's role is developing beyond once-passive patients into stakeholders valued within the medical industry and healthcare sector for their participation in clinical trials, and contribution towards policy-making and decision-making committees. This new dynamic is changing the traditional patient-doctor relationship and challenging the hegemony of medical practice at an institutional level. The impetus for this shift is relentless technological acceleration and increased scientific research, in particular driven by advances in PM. This project asked students to consider what will happen in a cancer landscape ten years from now, where PM has evolved to the extent that new forms of medical practice, cancer treatment and care transform how we interact with each other, with professionals and the world around us. The brief gave students the opportunity to reflect on the underlying complexities regarding the future of health, technological acceleration, post-capitalism and human agency, to envision a future world context, develop it as an experiential exhibit, and produce the designed products, services and experiences for the people who might live and work within it. The project was divided into two sections: The first was a collaborative stage where groups of students were assigned a specific area of focus from Social, Technological, Economic, Ethical, Educational, Political, Legal, Ecological [STEEEPLE]. These groups focused on researching and exploring their specific lenses and gathering as much information and understanding while working with external experts to further their knowledge. This group stage culminated in an exhibition of the collaborative understanding of what the future could look like in 10 years from now, after exploring the possible consequences of current actions. The second stage saw students explore their individual response to the world that had been defined in the first stage. Each student had their own response to the research by iteratively creating a design outcome that was appropriate to the subject matter. This culminated in each student having created a design product/service/experience relating to the future scenario. A full report (Project Process Journal [PPJ]) is included within the repository of each student which breaks down their process of designing and the outcome they have designed. The project aims to tackle the emerging possibilities where medical professionals and design can collaborate, to create a future where forms of medical practice are more preventative and are more appropriate for an aging population now and into the future. The deposited materials are arranged as follows: Readme files - two readme files relate to stage one and stage two of the project as outlined above. Overview poster - gives a visual overview of the structure and timeline of the project. Data folders - the data folders for stage one of the project are named for the lens through which each group viewed possible futures. The data folders for stage two of the project are named for the individual students who conducted the work.

The Future of Cancer and Collective Intelligence in the Post-Covid World project was jointly conceived by the Innovation School at Glasgow School of Art and the Institute of Cancer Sciences at the University of Glasgow. Graduating year Product Design students from the Innovation School were presented with a challenge-based project to produce a vision of the future based on current trends that relate to the Future of Cancer and Collective Intelligence in the Post-Covid World. Currently, cancer research and development occur in isolated pockets within stages across the cancer care continuum, which often negatively impacts on the potential for cancer professionals to exchange, integrate and share data, insights and knowledge across the framework. One of the most significant societal shifts currently taking place within Cancer and Collective Intelligence is the transformation from the siloed clinic point of care model to a seamless continuum of care with greater focus on prevention and early intervention, changing what it means to be someone living with cancer and a professional working within this context. From this new dynamic, emerges the concept of living-labs; transdisciplinary communities of practice involving people working within and living with cancer, capable, through collective intelligence-enabled systems and services, of generating knowledge which can be used locally, and shared globally, to deliver focused innovations across the whole cancer ecosystem. If collective intelligence holds the potential to truly connect people to people, and people to data, across diverse communities, linking peoples' lived experiences locally and globally, what kinds of new health and care services might emerge to improve cancer control across the continuum from prevention, detection, treatment and survivorship, and what types of new roles might emerge for citizens, patients and community groups to collaboratively drive these forward with health professionals? In order to address this challenge, the GSA Innovation School's final year Product Design students and faculty formed a dynamic community of practice with cancer practitioners and researchers from the Institute of Cancer Sciences at The University of Glasgow and beyond to envisage a 2030 cancer blueprint as a series of future world exhibits, and create the designed products, services and experiences for the people who might live and work within this ecosystem. This project involved the students working in partnership with an Expert Faculty composed of Cancer Physicians, Cancer Researchers, Social Scientists, Biomedical Engineers, Health Research Specialists, Past Patients, Digital Health Specialists, Design Experts and Government Agencies. The Expert Faculty was assembled from a range of local to global organisations including the University of Glasgow, the Beatson West of Scotland Cancer Centre, the Malawi Ministry of Health and the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC is part of the World Health Organization). This project asked the students to embark on a speculative design exploration into future experiences of working and living with cancer ten years from now, where advances in collective intelligence have evolved to the extent that new forms and ecosystems of medical practice, cancer care and experiences of living with, through and beyond cancer transform how we interact with each other, with health professionals and the communities around us. This project was conceived and carried out during the global COVID-19 pandemic. Throughout the project the students positively used this situation to creatively embrace a digital studio practice and innovate around digital and remote access platforms and forums for collaboration, development and engagement. Thus, the designed products, services and experiences for the people who might live and work within the cancer ecosystem are presented as innovative, highly creative, fully immersive, experiential exhibits. The project was divided into two sections: The first was a collaborative stage based on Future Worlds. The worlds are groups of students working together on specific topics, to establish the context for their project and collaborate on research and development. These were clustered together around 'Future Working' and 'Future Living' but also joined up across these groups to create pairs of worlds, and in the process generate collective intelligence between the groups. The worlds clustered around 'Future Working' are Education, Care and Treatment, Prevention and Detection. Future Worlds clustered around 'Future Living' are Personal Wellbeing, Communicating Cancer, Beyond Cancer. The second stage saw students explore their individual response to their assigned Future World that had been created in the first stage. Each student developed their own research by iteratively creating a design outcome that was appropriate to the Future cancer World. This culminated in each student producing designed products, services or systems and a communication of the future experiences created. Throughout the project, the results were presented as a series live interactive digitally curated, virtual work-in-progress exhibitions for specific audiences including a special global event to participate in World Cancer Day on the 4th February 2021. An event which allowed the students to actively interact and discuss the project with a global audience of cancer community leaders. The deposited materials are arranged as follows: 1. Readme files - two readme files relate to tage one and stage two of the project as outlined above. 2. Project overview document - gives a visual overview of the structure and timeline of the project. 3. Stage one data folders - the data folders for stage one of the project are named by the six Future Worlds through which each group explored possible futures. 4. Stage two data folders - the data folders for stage two of the project are named for the individual students who conducted the work and organised by the Future World cluster they worked within.