Abstract

 Over the last few years, design has increasingly entered the realm of health, thanks to the connection with other disciplines, such as science and medicine.
 
 
 Information design, due to its ability to translate complex and invisible data into visible and understandable ones, can put the interpretative filter of contemporary scientific research over product, services and communicative artifacts, useful to transmit to people knowledge related to psycho-physical well-being.
 
 
 In addition to being associated with more conscious choices and activities, information design and, as well, design, through the connection with medicine, can help in the communication of diseases, both for treatment and preservation.
 
 
 The aim of the paper is to introduce the methodology and, as well, the firsts results of an ongoing research which focus is the divulgation of medical-scientific knowledge on Neurofibromatosis Type 1 (NF1) and epigenetic factors, which technical data have been translated into different king of devices able to relate people everyday life with the managing and prevention of this pathology.
Highlights
IntroductionThe international design landscape has witnessed a gradual growth of collaborative experiences between design and science (Ito, 2016; Langella, 2019)
In recent decades, the international design landscape has witnessed a gradual growth of collaborative experiences between design and science (Ito, 2016; Langella, 2019).The evolution of science and technology is happening so fast that it is generating a multiplicity of new universes and possibilities, which are occurring at an ever-increasing pace, requiring a continuous updating of the tools and knowledge needed to interpret them (Greenfield, 2017).Many of the achievements made by science and technology produce revolutions that profoundly affect the way people live, their opinions, and their choices
The products and services generated by design become, “devices of the new” that arrange people, their behaviors, their thoughts to implement the innovation induced by the new knowledge by relating it to the new needs of contemporary living
Summary
The international design landscape has witnessed a gradual growth of collaborative experiences between design and science (Ito, 2016; Langella, 2019). Design for all and design for food, together with the application of information design methods, more closely related to the understanding of scientific information and its presentation through artifacts capable of being understood by a broad audience, thanks to the use of the most innovative technologies related to digital fabrication and prototyping through 3D printing of functional foods and tools for the preparation and consumption of healthy meals, allow to make more acceptable and adoptable medical indications, for people for whom these prescriptions are of vital importance, responding to needs such as the assimilation of antioxidant nutrients, vitamins, minerals and substances useful for both pathological situations (as in the case of NF1) and borderline (condition more related to stress, depression, and advanced age), reducing the intake of fat and sugar The objective of this activity is to rebalance the awareness of one’s own body, the ability to perceive, feel and modulate external sensory and multisensory stimuli, based on the most recent neurophysiological mapping. Digital gastronomy introduces to issues related to culinary experiences, and to a greater understanding of nutrients and processes, allowing thanks to additive technology, the conformation of foods that constitute a form of tacit knowledge (Pellegrino; Hilton, 2012) as it is deeply linked to the direct experiences of the individual, and for this reason more internalized by the user himself
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