Design HOPES: from Hope to Health
V&A Dundee
2 October 2025 – February 2026
(L) Reusable Theatre Caps, reducing reliance on single-use plastic in operating theatres, photograph by Marsaili McGrath, (R) Mosaic Landscapes, engaging diverse communities in NHS greenspace and land use, photograph by Julie Howden
Buildings and Land
Care
Communities
Digital Design
Exploratory Projects
Products and Services
Travel
Design HOPES returns to V&A Dundee with a new exhibition showcasing the transformational research developed throughout the project – a design-led, collaborative research initiative, working across five Scottish Universities, NHS Scotland, the third sector and organisations based in the design economy.
The climate emergency is a health emergency. Design HOPES is responding to this challenge by creating, prototyping and testing the products, services and systems needed to meet, and move beyond, urgent Net Zero goals for NHS Scotland. This exhibition presents an insight on the people and processes behind this work, and asks, ‘How can design help us live healthier lives, for people and planet?’
