- marglumbiarres(@)gmail.com
Hack The Hospital
A project by:
Garage Stories
Mobile World Capital Barcelona
Online and in-person hackathon editions to improve hospitalised paediatric patients’ lives.
Methodologies:
Design Thinking + Design Futures
Outcomes:
Creative, technology-driven, and user-experience-centered solutions, with a strong emphasis on storytelling and engagement.
These hackathons counted with LIVE feedback sessions from:
• Ex-paediatric patients
• Families from the hospitals
• Hospital caregivers
• External board of mentors
(technologists, entrepreneurs, designers and innovators)
Special guest speaker:
Kimberly Hicks – The Walt Disney Company
Board of Mentors:
Disney, KIDS Barcelona, SJD Children’s Hospital, Boston’s Children’s Hospital, GSMA, IBM, MIT Media Lab, Mobile World Capital Barcelona, CISCO, Magic Leap (…)
+250 participants (cross-disciplinary teams located in Barcelona and Boston)
+50 community partners engaged in the outreach campaign assistant.
· «Storytelling and Engagement for Kids»
Special guest Kimberly Hicks – The Walt Disney Company
· «From Augmented Reality to Augmented Human»
Judith Amores – Researcher MIT Media Lab
· «Good Centric Design»
George Aye – Great Good Studio
· «Best Practices to Design Spaces for Healthcare»
Suzy Genzler – NYSID
· «Inspiration and Ideation» session (Introduction to «Superminds» methodology)
Monique Fuchs – FutureSight Collective
Kathleen D Kennedy – MIT Center For Collective Intelligence
Hendrik Maier – MIT Center For Collective Intelligence
🏆 Winner projects were presented at the @Mobile World Congress and implemented in the hospitals.
Hack The Hospital 1
Challenge:
Solutions to improve the hospital stay of paediatric patients
Themes:
Mental health, family experience, social and education
Collaborators:
Boston Children’s Hospital (Boston)
Sant Joan de Déu Children’s Hospital (Barcelona)
Outcome:
@BoostBoard
– Augmented Reality game platform
Hack The Hospital 2
Challenge:
Re-design the hospital room of the future
Collaborators:
Sant Joan de Déu Children’s Hospital (Barcelona)
Great Ormond Street (London)
SickKids (Toronto)
Outcome:
@Room2Explore
– An immersive hospital experience transforming the patient rooms into a spaceship.
The project recreates a space mission with astronaut-themed pajamas for patients and staff, an adaptive smart panel for lighting, and an AI-powered robotic dog, Aibo, providing companionship, health monitoring, and age-appropriate interaction to make hospital stays more engaging and comforting.
Press Release
Garage Stories
Garage Stories is an innovation lab that designs think tanks, pop-up labs, hackathons and events that bring solutions to real use-case challenges.
In such ecosystems, we invite interdisciplinary groups to research and work together to apply technology to generate measurable improvements in human experiences.
Experts and researchers from various disciplines mentor the participants.
Outcomes:
Creative, technology-driven, and user-experience-centered solutions, with a strong emphasis on storytelling and engagement.