The Household Health Service helps flatmates agree on healthy co-living behaviours
during times of infectious disease spread, such as pandemics.
Our project focuses on infection prevention in home environments. We decided to narrow down to shared homes, because of the unique environment of sharing not just spaces but one's health as well. We call this lens Household Health. How might we increase the collective health of shared households during pandemics?
We are Pinja Piipponen and Alessandro Paone, service design masters students at the Royal College of Art, working (from home) on our graduate project. We created this website to raise discussion and test early ideas that could be valuable for shared homes today, and in preparation for the future living. With an interest in the sector of public health, we also have had a look in the future, in which there will be more diseases spreading that don’t have a cure (yet).
