Improving inclusion and accessibility in custom breast forms using highly innovative inert resin to produce rapid custom moulds in an agile and de-medicalised process.

Boost的客户已经表明，他们不想要复杂程度、大惊小怪、持续的医疗化或为了技术而技术。她们想要一种产品，可以帮助她们的衣服很好地贴合她们的身体，她们想要自信和舒适。我们知道这一点，因为女性告诉我们；通过我们以人为本的设计活动，让160名女性参与共同设计活动，以及我们与700多名Boost Breast Form佩戴者社区的持续客户关系。乳房全部或部分切除以及相关的治疗尤其不利于女性。Boost对乳房形状的创新重新设计在一定程度上为提供更多选择和赋权，特别是对那些在乳房假体设计假设中得不到充分服务的有色人种女性。该项目将提供一项可行性研究，该研究将为Photocentric公司的一种改变游戏规则的惰性3D灯丝创建一个用例流程，该公司是3D打印材料化学开发领域的世界领导者。我们将成为这种创新树脂的beta测试者。我们希望突破硅胶制造的界限，挑战定制化是排他性的、高端的、昂贵的观念。我们将交付一个项目，这将是有史以来第一次，生产一个3D打印模具，这将允许我们最软的铂固化，医疗级硅胶从模具成型，而不会抑制固化或损害产品的质量。我们将探索在定制过程中输入的最小可行数据，以确保在可承受的技术参数范围内有效捕获女性的塑形器需求，以确定她们的塑形器足迹和投影要求，并建立提供这项服务的路线图，使定制乳房塑形器成为一种包容性的选择，而不是排他的选择。我们认为这将特别解决乳房假体行业的偏见，该行业目前主要提供白人标准的方法来塑造轮廓和颜色完成，而不是考虑到许多女性需要的多样性，健康和比例。我们的项目最终将提供一个解决方案，以填补现货和昂贵的高端定制乳房形态之间的市场空白，这些乳房形态可以复制、缩放和调整，以满足世界各地女性的需求。

Boost's customers have shown that they don't want levels of complications, fuss, ongoing medicalisation or tech for tech's sake. They want a product that helps their clothes to sit nicely against their bodies, they want to feel confident and comfortable. We know this because women have told us; both through our human-centred design activity engaging 160 women in co-design activity and our ongoing customer relationships with our 700 plus community of Boost Breast Form wearers. Having a full or partial mastectomy and experiencing the associated treatment is particularly disempowering. Boost's innovative re-design of the breast form has gone some way towards offering more choice and empowerment, particularly for women of colour who have been underserved by breast prosthesis design assumptions. This project will deliver a feasibility study that will create a use-case process for a game-changing inert 3D filament from Photocentric, world leaders in the chemical development of 3D printing materials. We will become beta-testers for this innovative resin. We want to push the boundaries of silicone manufacturing and challenge the idea that customisation is exclusive, high-end and expensive. We will deliver a project which will, for the first time ever, produce a 3D printable mould that will allow our softest platinum cured, medical grade silicone from Mouldlife to be moulded without inhibiting the cure or compromising the quality of the product. We will explore the minimum viable data to input into the customisation process, to ensure that women's shaper needs can be effectively captured within affordable technological parameters to identify their shaper footprint and projection requirements, and build a route-map for the delivery of this service that will make a custom breast shaper become an inclusive option, as opposed to an exclusive one. We think this will particularly address the bias of the breast-prosthetic industry, which currently offers a predominantly white-normative approach to shape contours and colour finishes that does not account for the diversity, wellbeing and proportions that many women require. Our project will finally deliver a solution to fill a market gap between off-the-shelf and expensive, high end custom breast forms that can be replicated, scaled and adapted to meet the needs of women around the world.