Energy for Health
Experential Design
Solar energy can revolutionise healthcare in remote areas by providing a reliable and sustainable power source for medical facilities. Solar-powered clinics can ensure uninterrupted vaccine storage, power essential medical equipment, and facilitate telemedicine, bridging the gap in healthcare access for isolated communities.
The SELCO x WHO Experiential Space at COP28 in Dubai showcased the connection between climate change and healthcare in vulnerable areas, and how solar energy can be used to create solutions that bring in resilience in health care centres in these areas.
Since its inception, SELCO Foundation has been focused on creating and strengthening the ecosystem for last mile energy solutions for poor people across varied contexts.
Located in the Blue Zone of COP28, the visitors for the space were key dignitaries, diplomats and government officials from across the world.
The experience zone was designed to communicate the impact of solar energy not just through data and information but also from a first person experience of both patients and the medical staff.
The journey through the experience was through a directed journey that took the visitor sequentially into three key zones:
a. the red zone that highlights the problems and issues faced by remote health centres and health care workers.
b. the central cube that plays an immersive film that takes the user on a journey through the eyes of patients and healthcare workers
c. the blue zone that showcases how solar energy can offer a simple, scalable and sustainable model to solve these problems.
The project developed out of a collaborative process between selco, roy.studio & freehand studio. Roy.studio developed the overall approach to the project along with the information & communication design for the space. The space was designed by freehand studio and executed by INVNT.
The design of the space wraps the audience in information and communication along the path to the immersive film space. The information graphics were designed to ensure that it used minimal amounts of ink on the surface.
Creative producer: Saurabh Jitranjan
Design Director: Saurav Roy & Upasana NR
Communication Design: Roy.Studio
Spatial Design: Garima Aggarwal Roy & Anindya Roy
Immersive Film :solanki chakraborty
The graphic language was developed around a central simplified motif of solar energy that travels across the panels revealing the information as the visitor goes through the space.
Sifting though data and information from the field, we worked closely with the SELCO team to transform them into narratives that would be able to explain the complexity of the process and the impact of the solution.
