Design HOPES: From HOPE to HEALTH

V&A Dundee
2 October 2025 – 8 February 2026

Design HOPES 'From HOPE, to HEALTH' exhibition at V&A Dundee, Oct 2025 - Feb 2026, showcasing design-led research from across the project / Photograph: Grant Anderson

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?’

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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