As the climate emergency increasingly puts pressure on healthcare systems, this exhibition puts sustainable innovation at the fore, and showcases how designers, researchers and healthcare professionals are working together to help NHS Scotland achieve its Net Zero goals.

Through product prototypes, videos, games and hands-on design tools, the display shows how both small scale design-led actions and wider shifts can help the NHS reduce its environmental impact while improving care for all.

From designing sustainable scrubs, to helping staff and patients make everyday choices that add up to big impacts, the work is rooted in real places and real people. It asks simple but powerful questions around how waste is created, who gets to make decisions, and what tools can help make real change happen.

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.

The 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]