Newtopia is a company that uses behavioral science and digital technology to help participants develop sustainable healthy habits proven to prevent, slow or reverse chronic disease. Its personalized experience is delivered through 1:1 engagement with a health coach called an Inspirator to achieve measurable results with participants’ metabolic risk factors and overall wellbeing. This has resulted in a reduction of more than US$1,464 in medical costs per participant in the first year alone.

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The program starts with a comprehensive health assessment that measures the participant’s health risks and lifestyle behaviors. From here, the Inspirator tailors a custom behavior change program for each participant. This consists of regular contact with the Inspirator via phone, text or online video, in addition to a customized wellness program with measurable goals and milestones.

Workers also fill out an online profile, wear a provided activity tracker and weigh in on a wireless scale, as well as chat with other Newtopia members to get support. Inspirators use data from these sources to create tailored workout and diet regimens for each participant. In addition, Newtopia analyzes an employee’s DNA to identify three specific genes that have been shown in peer-reviewed research to influence weight loss and metabolism.

The exhibition shows that universalism, a principle that is supposedly at the core of human rights, has become a self-fulfilling prophecy in art, as well. Regardless of where artists from around the world are, they are often criticized for not conforming to the West’s ideas of what represents universal art.