What is the lighthouse project?
‘Light the South’ is a public art trail raining money for Southampton Children’s hospital. It will involve the positioning of 40 large and 30 small lighthouses at key landmarks across Southampton and the Isle of Wight. Each of the large lighthouses will be uniquely decorated by a local or well-renowned artist, with small lighthouses being decorated by school children.
What is DHBE?
DHBE is the digital health and biomedical engineering research group at the University of Southampton. This research group sits within the school of electronics and computer science, and examines a whole host of different ways in which engineering can be applied in healthcare.
Research covers a wide range of applications, including lab-on-a-chip sensors, autonomous disease management, rehabilitation technology, and the application of AI in healthcare, as well as many more!
The research group is led by Age Chapman, who is the champion behind this project, having had the idea and managed an epic negotiation with the university legal team to be allowed to carry it out.
But this isn’t just a DHBE project!
The DHBE research group are helping to design an interactive lighthouse, and are collaborating with Mount Pleasant Junior School and artist Emily Harper.
The large and small lighthouse will be themed around health, both in terms of the ‘healthy high-five’ as well as giving information on the exciting healthcare-related research being carried out at Southampton that comes to the rescue when the ‘healthy high-five’ doesn’t quite cut it.