The gentleman is using that, the hole, to breathe, and the gentleman also has no vocal cord and fairly irregular anatomical contours on the neck. And the challenge for this individual is that they have a little stoma, so it’s like a little hole in the neck. Yes, so that’s a fairly recent case, where we were contacted by a physiotherapist and she told us about that gentleman who kept being admitted in our respiratory medicine department at the hospital fairly regularly. I was wondering if you wouldn’t mind sharing the story that you told me about a gentleman with no vocal cords, and how you helped them through the Institute. So, Mathilde, you’ve been in the facility for about a year now and you know that I love visiting to sort of see all of the amazing work that you do. Their knowledge has and will ensure the continuation of cultures and traditional practises. We pay our respect to the traditional owners, their elders and knowledge-holders, past, present and emerging. I’d like to start our conversation by acknowledging and respecting the Yuggera and Turball people as the original custodians, designers, and placemakers of the land upon which your Herston Biofabrication is situated, and of course, from where we’re speaking today. Hey Carolyn, nice to speak to you as well. Hello Mathilde, so great to talk to you today. She was a crucial stakeholder and collaborator in the successful outcome of the Institute. ![]() Her specialty is 3D health technologies, digital health, and design innovation for healthcare. Mathilde is the general manager at Herston Biofab. I’m an interior designer at Hassell and I’m joined today by the wonderful Mathilde Desselle. Already it has changed the lives of many people, enabled rapid iteration, testing, application, and problem-solving, and it’s a project I’m so delighted to have worked on, with a brief that asked designers to create a place that enabled ideas, collaboration, and agility to respond. The Herston Biofabrication Institute opened its doors to Queensland and Australia in 2021. You can find Hassell Talks on Apple, Spotify, iHeart, PodBean or on your favourite podcast app.įrom international design practice Hassell, you’re listening to Hassell Talks.īehind the doors of a previously unloved 1970s Brutalist building in Brisbane, there are now teams of researchers, surgeons, engineers, industrial designers, and other very clever people working on groundbreaking, life-changing biofabrication and medical research. Listen to the podcast via the player below. General Manager of the Herston Biofabrication Institute “That ability to very rapidly develop ideas, rapidly prototype, test and evaluate on site, helps us respond really, really quickly and action what iterative design means.” It is a space that welcomes groups - such as burns survivors - to come and share their experiences of healing while they watch the lab at work on latest 3D printing technologies for burns care. The Institute, in a previously unloved Brutalist building, have been given another life, and now encourages collaboration between specialists and patients in designing health solutions. In this episode of Hassell Talks, Mathilde Desselle General Manager of the Herston Biofabrication Institute, tells Carolyn Solley Principal, how the transparency and malleability of the Institute’s interior design has fostered smooth interactions between researchers, technicians and surgeons and made dignity and trust touchstones of the healing process. “The Institute is so many things to different stakeholders… it’s a place for public transparency, education, innovation and healing.” ![]() It is a far cry from the era of specialists working in silos, in different locations across a city struggling against the tyranny of distance. They’ve celebrated the solutions to problems that Mathilde says have been solved “beautifully and organically” in minutes. They’ve helped a patient talk for the first time in 30 years, and worked together on the design-print-test-iterate-create process, finding a solution in days rather than months. Given the right space, resources and design, the team has become more agile and, says Mathilde Desselle, General Manager of the Institute, “more multidisciplinary than ever before”. The team behind Herston Biofabrication Institute in Brisbane, Australia knew this, and deliberately sought to remove the physical and mental limits that slowed down progress and innovation. Our minds distinguish us and our intelligence is key to survival but it’s our ability to work together that tells the true story of our potential. ![]() We are the sum of our skin, our organs and body parts. While technology rapidly advances - people, by contrast, remain constant.Ĭreatures of habit, we need others to survive.
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