Tangible Care: Design as a Vehicle for Materializing Shifting Relationships between Clinicians and Patients

Kathrina Dankl is an associate professor at Design School Kolding Denmark and Managing Director of design consultancy Studio Dankl. She has a background in industrial design and design anthropology. Her primary research interests include participatory design and social design in health and ageing. Dankl's work has been shown at Design Biennales, for instance BIO26, and published in journals such as Design Issues, The Design Journal and CoDesign.

Canan Akoglu works as associate professor at Design School Kolding in Denmark. She has a background in architecture together with a PhD degree in industrial design from Istanbul Technical University. Her main research interests include participatory design, service design, social design in health and social care. Prior to her current position, Akoglu worked as the co-founder of the Department of Industrial Design at Ozyegin University in Istanbul.