Breathing Games: Promoting Respiratory Health Through Co-creation

Abstract

Breathing Games is a global initiative that promotes respiratory health through the co-creation of respiratory games and devices by a community of patients, clinicians, interdisciplinary researchers and technology professionals. Using participatory approaches, such as game jams, hackathons, workshops (Decker, Eiselt & Voll, 2015) the project aims to educate people about respiratory health, make treatments fun, and inform clinical research, while co-producing knowledge. Breathing Games and similar knowledge commons are social initiatives that offer an alternative to competitive and proprietary systems, challenging dominant legal frameworks through the free/libre production and distribution of designs, software and hardware technologies.