In July we supported two of our favourite Professors and their teams in an event at Cheltenham Music festival. We held an event comparing practice and performance between music and surgery using the simulations we have created for the Royal College of Music. Visitors to the event at the Parabola Arts Centre were able to […]

Grouple at Aging 2.0 London
February 8th, 2013 by MattAdmin in Design News | no comments
We presented our recent project grouple.cc at Aging 2.0 london recently, and it features in this great write up of the seminar by Deborah Gale: http://www.bioethics.ac.uk/news/Google-Innovatation-and-Ageing.php To quote Deborah: “…Matthew Harrison the co–founder of Collaborative Caring and in conjunction with five designers and developers has created an online tool for managing and monitoring the involvement, […]
Grouple Launch at Design Council
April 28th, 2012 by MattAdmin in Design News | no comments
photo by Adam Oliver Studiohead director Cian Plumbe presents Grouple to the audience of the Design Council’s Living Well with Dementia launch, sharing the podium with Paul Burstow MP, David Kester, CEO of the Design Council and Baroness Sally Greengross . Grouple recieved a very warm reaction from the crowd, as did the other four […]
Design Council “Living well with Dementia” Challenge
December 1st, 2011 by MattAdmin in Design News | no comments
Studiohead have been successful in the Design Council’s most recent Design Challenge. Together with Louise Wilson, Ifung Lu and Meike Walcha, we entered a proposal to create a brand new tool to help families living with dementia. The tool, provisionally called Grouple, will be a combination of a website and physical products that help families […]
New Website for Unwired Ventures
July 1st, 2011 by MattAdmin in Design digital | no comments
Studiohead have just completed a new website for Events and Consulting company Unwired Ventures. Unwired specialise in creating events and knowledge centred on the worlds of work and technology, advising some of the world’s best known organisations. Their new website needed to reflect the forward thinking nature of their business, be simple to keep up […]
Camden Arts Centre – 19th June 2011
June 12th, 2011 by MattAdmin in Design exhibition | no comments
Studiohead and Imperial College Division of Surgery are holding a public performance at the Camden Arts Centre on Sunday 19th June. We will explore through Simulation and Improvised Music what happens when you have a heart attack, and are rushed by ambulance to a Catheter Lab to have an artery unblocked. Quite Spectacular is series […]
designingwithpeople.org
May 2nd, 2011 by MattAdmin in Design digital | no comments
Studiohead recently designed and built a new online resource for designers on behalf of the Helen Hamlyn Centre for Design, Royal College of Art. DesigningWithPeople.org is a comprehensive guide to inclusive design principles, packed with hundreds of examples of how good design can improve peoples’ lives as well as suggestions of research methods and resources […]
iPad app for anaesthetic simulation nearly ready!
August 30th, 2010 by MattAdmin in Design News | no comments
Our new iPad apps that simulate the anaesthesia stack in a trauma ward are in their final stages before testing in our simulated operating theatre. The apps will simulate the ECG (heart trace) and ventilation screens used by an anaesthetist during a trauma or surgical procedure. They will make full use of the iPads’ touch […]
Portable Operating Theatre -Times Online ‘favourite’ innovation
June 19th, 2009 by MattAdmin in Design exhibition News | no comments
Hannah Devlin reports for the Times Online at the Healthcare Innovation Expo citing the Portable Operating Theatre as one her favoured innovations on show. Read the article here.