Medical Technologies Visualization Project
Date: April-May, 2009
Client: Dr. Bill Leeming / Ontario College of Art & Design
Project Type: Interaction Design, Information Visualization
Notes: Robert Appleton provided additional typographic expertise.
A prototype of an interface to explore hierarchies. It to life ideas central to Dr. Leeming's work, namely:
[The] structural development of institution-based interest in genetics in Anglo-North American medicine after 1930 concomitantly with an analysis of the social and institutional changes through which genetical ideas about heredity and the hereditary transmission of diseases in families have passed. It argues that the unfolding relationship between medicine and genetics can best be understood against the background of changes in the conceptualisations of recurring patterns of disease in families from ‘related to heredity’ to ‘related to chromosomes and genes,’ and then, after 1970, in relation to the formation and institutionalisation of a new medical specialism, ‘medical genetics.’
Users explore the influence of these high level, axiomatic modes of though on the development of medical technologies and fields of scientific inquiry.
