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The health care industry is on the verge of a revolution, subjected to design. Wearable technology designers are introducing us to smart applications in design, that are going to transform the future of patient and caregiver.

Care and Cloth is a combination of a workshop, lecture and exhibition on the beginning of a new era in the health sector. What will the roll of the caregiver become in a future where clothing and accessories are able to make diagnoses? And how will interactions with patients change when their garments constantly keeping you in contact? What will it mean to be a patient when design becomes part of your treatment, and how will the designer be positioned within this process?

Wearable technology designers, doctors and patients, share a joint future. A new design industry is arising within the domain of health and is currently being shape by the first pioneers. The program of care and cloth brings experts together to share knowledge, explore collaboration possibilities, and discuss the course of their current and future joint practices.