RxƠ > lien
A Design Fiction on the Future
of End-of-Life Care
illustration – artistic direction – mediation
RxƠ > lien
A Design Fiction on the Future
of End-of-Life Care
Date
– 2019
Client
– Okoni
Role
– artistic direction
– illustration
– mediation
As part of a speculative design project, we explored weak signals in the healthcare sector to identify emerging tensions around medical ethics, rare disease therapies, and end-of-life care. These insights served as the foundation for a design fiction imagining the future of healthcare in 2050.
The result is RxƠ, a graphic narrative in the form of a comic book. It follows Johan, a woman facing the death of her husband. In the wake of her grief, she begins to question her own future, and the possibility of immortality in a world where death is no longer inevitable.
This speculative comic also explores new therapeutic approaches to rare diseases, raising questions around medical innovation, the future of medicine, and the limits of human life. Through storytelling and illustration, we invite the audience to reflect on what it means to live, heal, and choose when, or whether, to die.
