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Getting children out of hospital beds

Tech From Here: NL · Dutch Design Week 2026

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Slide 1: OverDeTop: a white step block with a big red button, red and blue side steps and a handrailPhoto: Timo Maessen / DDW press kitMuseum or journal record
Slide 2: Close view of OverDeTop's red button with lit outlines on the side stepsPhoto: Timo Maessen / DDW press kitMuseum or journal record
Slide 3: Diagram: a hospital day bar, almost all sitting or lying, and two bars for what one week of bed rest did to adult thigh muscle and strengthImage: RN Collins studio, code-drawn
Slide 4: Diagram of three leg muscle groups and what each does: the work a step asks forImage: RN Collins studio, code-drawn. Checked against OpenStax Anatomy and Physiology 2e, section 11.6 (gluteus maximus moves the thigh back; quadriceps femoris, four muscles that extend and stabilize the knee; posterior compartment of the leg, plantar flexion), read 28 Oct 2026; 'a step up calls on all three' is labeled a teaching noteMuseum or journal record
Slide 5: A speckled plastic brick with interlocking studs on a concrete block: Waste to Infrastructure's brickPhoto: Geert Talsma / DDW press kitMuseum or journal record
Slide 6: An old concrete washroom block at a school in Ghana, from the project's film: the kind of building the bricks are meant to replacePhoto: Geert Talsma / DDW press kitMuseum or journal record
Ring frame: Child's chair, black lacquered, rush seat, Rijksmuseum (BK-NM-5783-45)Frame: Rijksmuseum, PD, croppedMuseum or journal record

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