Vidhi Mehta
MA work
MA work
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Post/Biotics: Testing Local Samples for Antimicrobial Values, Vidhi Mehta
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Igniting curiosity of citizen scientists to solve global problem
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Sketches: Work in progress
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First prototype
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Prototype: pop-up lab
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User testing pop-up lab concept
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Post/Biotics workshop at Cedars School, London
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Sample results
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Experimental setup: Work in Progress
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Digital platform: Work in progress
Post/Biotics
What if the next novel antibiotic is in your backyard?
Post/Biotics is a science toolkit that utilizes citizen scientists to reduce sole reliance on pharmaceutical companies to develop new antibiotics by enabling students to participate in finding new ones.
The coming cost of antimicrobial resistance is estimated at 10 million deaths per annum by 2050. Every time we consume an antibiotic, it becomes a little less effective. We need to find new antibiotics, else we won't be able to treat common diseases such as UTIs, stomach infections and Tuberculosis in the future.
The task of finding new antibiotics is both labor and resource intensive. Most antibiotics known to us today have been developed out of natural extracts: soil, plants, insects, deep-sea beds and volcanoes. They all have useful microbes that can potentially be a novel antibiotic.
Post/Biotics distributes this empirical research to school students by means of creating a global STEM educational platform, which allows students to participate in discovering substances with antimicrobial values by sampling their surroundings.
Post/Biotics is a vision for future of open-source drug discovery, what happens when design enables the tools of scientific innovation to reach out to common people, how can they learn, create and add to scientific knowledge.
Info
Info
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MA Degree
School
School of Design
Programme
MA Innovation Design Engineering, 2015
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Contact
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+44 (0)7448 291167
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A curious thinker, fascinated by how people interact and use emerging technologies. I derive inspiration by observing and engaging with them. Through products and services that I design, I wish to craft new experiences for people: simplifying and enhancing lives.
I have particular interests in projects in the domain of strategy and experience design, circular economy and social entrepreneurship in healthcare.
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Degrees
- BDes Industrial Design, National Institute of Design, 2012
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Experience
- Experience design internship, Agency of Design, 2014; Product designer, Ducere Technologies, 2012; User experience designer, Microsoft, 2012; User researcher, Quicksand Studio, 2011