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Who owns your health?

Tech From Here: NL · Dutch Design Week 2026

The work this post covers and every source it draws on, each linked to the original.

The workGezondheid van Jezelf? / Your Own Health?, Medical Delta's Your Own Health? consortium (program leads Dr Valentijn Visch, TU Delft, and Dr Veronica Janssen, LUMC), Klokgebouw (B4), Strijp-S. Dutch Design Week 2026 ddw.nl

Research cited

  1. Visch V, Bueno de Mesquita N, van Dijk S, Kraaij W, van der Linden Y, van Poecke N, Witkamp E, van Zaalen Y, Janssen V. Your own Health? A position paper on the concept (excerpt) medicaldelta.nl
  2. Gezondheid van jezelf policy paper (medicaldelta.nl) medicaldelta.nl

Other sources

  1. Medical Delta, Your Own Health? (Gezondheid van Jezelf?) programme (in Dutch) medicaldelta.nl
  2. OpenStax, Anatomy and Physiology 2e, §17.9 The Endocrine Pancreas openstax.org
  3. OpenStax, Anatomy and Physiology 2e, §19.2 Cardiac Muscle and Electrical Activity openstax.org
  4. Dutch Design Week programme: Gezondheid van Jezelf? (consortium morning, Natlab, 22 Oct) ddw.nl
  5. Dutch Design Week venue: Klokgebouw ddw.nl
  6. Handles: none in the sheet medicaldelta.nl
  7. Expositie en werksessie medical delta programma gezondheid van jezelf op dutch design week (medicaldelta.nl) medicaldelta.nl

Images, slide by slide

Slide 1
A pink house-shaped exhibition cube with a small window and a glowing neon sign at its base, in a white hallPhoto: RN Collins
Slide 2
The side of a pink house-shaped cube with a yellow text band and a window opening, a neon sign glowing at its base, and visitors at stands in the Klokgebouw hall beyondPhoto: RN Collins
Slide 3
Diagram: a box reading an ability to influence health branches into three panels, realistic with a part-filled bar, changing with a wavy line over time, and your own, or another's with two peopleImage: RN Collins studio, code-drawn. Checked against Visch V et al. Your own Health? A position paper on the concept of health ownership. Medical Delta, October 2026Museum or journal record
Slide 4
Diagram of the pancreas from the front, its head in the curve of the duodenum, with one islet enlarged in a circleImage: RN Collins studio, code-drawn. Checked against OpenStax Anatomy and Physiology 2e, section 17.9 The Endocrine Pancreas (): islets of alpha cells (glucagon, about 20 percent), beta cells (insulin, about 75 percent), delta and PP cells; in type 1 diabetes the beta cells do not produce insulin. Checked 24 Oct 2026 (source line drawn on the graphic)Museum or journal record
Slide 5
Diagram of the heart from the front showing its conduction system: the sinoatrial node high in the right atrium near the superior vena cava, pathways to the atrioventricular node, the bundle down the septum, its branches and the Purkinje fibersImage: RN Collins studio, code-drawn. Checked against OpenStax Anatomy and Physiology 2e, section 19.2 Cardiac Muscle and Electrical Activity (): SA node in the superior and posterior walls of the right atrium near the superior vena cava sets normal rhythm; internodal pathways, AV node, AV bundle, right and left bundle branches, Purkinje fibers; an implanted artificial pacemaker delivers electrical impulses to the heart muscle. The lead route was removed in Run 20 final (24 Oct 2026): OpenStax 19.2 gives no lead route or placement. Checked 24 Oct 2026 (source line drawn on the graphic)Museum or journal record
Slide 6
Diagram in two panels: a body outline lying on a table, labeled in class, one body on the table, and the same outline standing with four small figures around it labeled family, friends, carers and othersImage: RN Collins studio, code-drawn. Checked against RN Collins's teaching note (opinion); family and friends as one demonstrator's view of type 1 diabetes: DDW programme, Your Own Health?Museum or journal record
Slide 7
Diagram of two bars split between you and carers, institutions: in the first you carry the larger part, in the second, when illness or poverty limits what you can do, carers and institutions carry more, with an orange arrow labeled responsibility should moveImage: RN Collins studio, code-drawn. Checked against Visch V et al. Your own Health? A position paper on the concept of health ownership. Medical Delta, October 2026Museum or journal record
Ring frame
Philips X-ray tube (studio photo)Frame: Luca Boldrini, CC BY 2.0, croppedMuseum or journal record
Quotes and video
RN's phone photo behind this post, taken outside the cube on the Saturday press tour (she did not go in)RN's own footage, 17 Oct 2026, Klokgebouw, Strijp-S, Eindhoven

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