Make It

This
innovative Make It weekend brings together patients and the public, health and
care service providers, designers, artists and developers to work on
sustainability projects in health and care in Bristol. This weekend is being run by Bristol Health Partners as part of Healthy City Week. Find out what happened at the last Make It event held in October 2014.

Drawing
on the convention of hackathons, it will focus on solutions to real world
problems, giving you an opportunity to co-create solutions with like-minded
people to the challenges faced by local communities. Issues identified by
Bristol Health Partners Health Integration Teams will be presented, to be
worked on.

The
weekend will be a melting pot of knowledge and skills, with people from
different backgrounds and sectors collaborating to support existing projects
and develop new ones – enabling innovations and improvements in local health,
care and wellbeing. During the weekend, issues identified by the
Health Integration Teams will be presented
to technologists, creatives, local green project representatives, interested
members of the public and patients to brainstorm solutions to these challenges.
The weekend format has been designed to support people with lo-tech, hi-tech
and no-tech projects ideas.

Could you play a part in developing real solutions
to improving Bristol’s sustainability in health and care? Whether you’re a patient or a developer, a
doctor or a sustainability guru, we need you!

The
structure of the weekend will be:

• Saturday
  Quick fire presentations (9.30-10.30) on local projects followed by a
  Speed Data’ing networking brunch (10.30-12.30) and afternoon collaborative
  work session (12.30-5.30)
• Sunday
  During the morning the collaborative work continues, with presentations on
  Sunday afternoon. Participants present projects to an expert panel, and prizes
  and awards will be given for the presentations and project ideas selected
  by the panel

The
weekend will include an informatics work stream, challenging people to make use
of
Bristol City Council open data
platform, Lidar mapping data, HSCIC and the other open
source data.

Tickets
will be available for the whole weekend or Saturday morning (quick fire
presentations and networking) and Sunday afternoon (presentations). More details of how to book will be available soon.

Bristol’s
first ever Healthy City Week takes place on 12-18 October. It will celebrate
local projects and initiatives that build on the connection between healthy
environments and healthy people, giving the health, care and green sectors in
Bristol an opportunity to showcase their work. See the
full programme for Healthy CityWeek.

Book your place