How can design address the tension between a central point and its edges?

For example, the relation between the center and periphery of a place, the core and margins of a group, the established knowledge and the cutting-edge experimentation, or the advantage and the disadvantage?


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Liquo

Filter Syringe for Dry Vaccines, Improving Vaccination Access in the Periphery

TEAM

Delia Aho

Elisa Kallio

Erno Hassi

CONTEXT

BA Design

Industrial Manufacturing

2024

PROFESSORS

Teppo Vienamo

Irina Viippola

Liquo is a syringe with an integrated filter for water activated vaccines, aiming to improve vaccination access in the periphery. Unequal distribution of resources creates centers of abundance and peripheries of scarcity. The strict cold chain required for some vaccines contributes to the deepening of geographical inequalities. Freeze-dried vaccines that can be activated with water at the time and location of use help bridge that gap. The Liquo-syringe was born as an assignment to create a user-powered water filter that could be used in any kind of environment.

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