Supporting a green and just transition for NHS Scotland

Design Sprint 4 ‘Catalyse’

The Grassmarket Community Project
23rd January 2025

The final of our four planned Sprints was on the theme Catalyse. Design is fundamentally about making – giving form to ideas and showing people what a new vision can look and feel like. It’s essential to test how these ideas work in practice and how they connect with other designed interventions.

Although the sprint was cut short due to Storm Eowyn, we took the opportunity to reschedule Day 2. On 25th March, we hosted a facilitated workshop using the Three Horizons methodology, led by H3Uni. This session aimed to accelerate the work of the policy labs by surfacing key patterns and exploring the broader implications of the Design HOPES big policy picture.

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.

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