Cluster Researcher Felix Rasehorn Nominated for German Design Research Award for »Digital Twin«

Cluster member and designer Felix Rasehorn was nominated for the German Design Research Award. The young designers award was endowed with a sum of 1.000€ for the winner. His project »Digital Twin« is an applied research project on the representation and perception of brain matter in neurosurgery procedures that aim to use the operation-planning process as an opportunity to mentally rehearse actions during surgery.

Despite having highly complex anatomy, the human brain is still not well understood. An interdisciplinary team at the Charité hospital in Berlin is working on new methods for visualizing and analyzing the brain. Although image-guided surgeries are now the norm, the surgical planning process is still primarily carried out digitally and on computer screens. The design research project »Digital Twin« is an interdisciplinary project on the planning of neurosurgical interventions using hybrid tools. The project investigates the need for the planning process to include physical representations and tools similar to those used during surgery. The project is part of the experimental setting Adaptive Digital Twin of the project Cutting.

Find out more about the German Design Research Award here.