Events

Past Events

Event  •  10 December 2025 at 11:00 (Session 1) & 14:00 (Session 2)
THEME — Digital Design

Flow: User Testing Workshop at V&A Dundee

Event  •  3 December 2025
THEME — Products and Services

Design for Sustainable Healthcare: An Interactive Pop-up Workshop

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Event  •  21 August 2025
THEME — Buildings and Land

Identifying and Addressing Housing-related Health Risks

Event  •  20–21 May

Design HOPES Design Challenge – supporting new ideas for healthier people and planet

Event  •  22 April 2025

SHIFT: Shaping Health in Future Times

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Event  •  27 March – 13 June
THEMES — Buildings and Land Care Communities Digital Design Exploratory Projects Products and Services Travel

Work-in-Progress at the University of Strathclyde

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Event  •  27 February 2025
THEME — Buildings and Land

Energy and Health, and Improving Indoor Air Quality

Event  •  10 February 2025

Green Futures Storytelling: Creating visions of Hope

Event  •  10 February 2025

Catalysing Opportunities

Event  •  23rd January 2025

Design Sprint 4 ‘Catalyse’

Event  •  5 December 2024 – 17 February 2025
THEMES — Buildings and Land Care Communities Digital Design Exploratory Projects Products and Services Travel

Design HOPES Work-in-Progress Display

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Event  •  28-29 May 2024

Design Sprint 3 ‘Create’

Event  •  12-13 March 2024

Design Sprint 2 ‘Reframe’

Event  •  11 - 12 December 2023

Design Sprint 1 ‘Explore’

Design HOPES is a collaborative design-led research initiative, comprising five Scottish Universities (University of Strathclyde, University of Dundee, Heriot Watt University, Abertay University, and the University of Edinburgh), NHS Scotland, the third sector, and design organisations.

This project is funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) as part of the Future Observatory GTE Hub Programme at the Design Museum [grant number AH/Y00373X/1].

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