Espaitec, through the UJI.>LAB project, develops the Kimibox initiative with the aim of manufacturing boxes to house medication for application in chemotherapy processes decorated with different elements, designed by the Industrial Design students of the UJI with the support of professionals sanitary
The project Kimibox arises from the need to give encouragement and strength to children and adolescents throughout the process of cancer treatment, and also to family members and those closest to them during the disease process, providing them with extra help and motivation from an emotional perspective. In these situations, not only is medical-health care sufficient from the point of view of oncological treatment, but emergency actions are necessary. psychological and social support for patients and families with the purpose of offering them strength, support and help during the course of the illness.
The main objective of the Kimibox initiative is design and print in 3D, with the help of prototyping laboratory fast from Espaitec, FabLab, a set of little boxes that will hold chemotherapy doses, so that the treatment bags are hidden behind them and, through their designs, the medication process is humanized. The chemotherapy boxes will be decorated with different elements as for example, adhesives, whiteboards and figures of cartoon, among others, and will be offered to the pediatric oncology departments of hospitals in the province of Castellón.
It should be noted that the project Kimibox It was based on the original project «Chemobox» born in Brazil in 2013 and exported to Spain in 2018 where, through social networks, a call was made to Makers for the selfless manufacture of boxes to store chemotherapy doses using 3D printers for boys and girls undergoing cancer treatment.
UJI.>LAB Challenge Kimibox
The project Kimibox has been developed as UJI.>LAB Challenge, with the participation of students of the Industrial Design degree of the Universitat Jaume I, who, in a co-creative process together with health professionals, have proposed possible solutions and designs to the challenge of humanizing pediatric oncological treatment.
The initiative has been carried out through the methodology called Innovation Camp, Based on a hybridization of methodologies known as Design Thinking, Human Centered y DesignSprint; combining all these characteristics to develop a open innovation process, collaborative and multidisciplinary in which you explore, experiment, prototype, discover and, above all, learn.
Through these methodologies The aim is to speed up the design process., defining the objectives, devising and sketching possible solutions, deciding the idea to carry out, creating a prototype, being tested and validated by real users (Design Sprint). All this, addressing the problem to be solved in a comprehensive way (Design Thinking), searching establish bonds of empathy with affected people (Human Centered), that is, a LivingLab in its pure essence.
La manufacturing of Kimibox boxes has been carried out at the facilities of the Espaitec FabLab, remaining available to the participating students during the manufacturing period. Specifically, the manufacturing of the Kimibox boxes has been carried out using 3D printers and computers with Cura software installed.
The launch of the project UJI.>LAB has been possible thanks to the financing of the Valencian Institute of Business Competitiveness (IVACE) in its first phase during 2019, and the Valencian Innovation Agency (AVI), in subsequent phases from 2020 to the present.
