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Journal Article
Published Mar 31, 2026

The Role of Housing in Patient Health: Practitioner Insights and Protocol Review

Housing is increasingly recognised as a critical social determinant of health, yet healthcare systems often lack structured tools to identify and address the risks found in home environments.
Buildings and Land Housing and health Social determinants of health
Anosh Nadeem Butt and Sonja Oliveira
Conference Paper
Published Mar 26, 2025

Thermoregulated Clothing: Lowering Household CO2 Emissions Through Functional Textile Prints

Many disorders can impact an individual’s ability to regulate their body temperature, particularly those with disorders that limit mobility such as Parkinson’s disease or stroke.
Exploratory Projects
Sophia Murden and Danmei Sun
Journal Article
Published Mar 1, 2026

Playing with Place: Co-Designing Landscapes Through Games in Healthcare Settings

This research developed, tested, and evaluated a novel co-design tool that translates evidence on human–nature connections into a tangible method for co-designing NHS greenspaces.
Design Design Research Group Innovation and Entrepreneurship Manufacturing And Engineering Management
Laura MacLean, Sarah Bowyer, Lewis Urquhart, Andrew Robinson, Josafinni Porter Chambers, Sarah Morton and Andrew Wodehouse
Conf. Proceeding
Published Apr 22, 2025

SHIFT Symposium Proceedings

Shaping Health in Future Times (SHIFT) was a dynamic, one-day event hosted by Design HOPES’ early-career researchers, bringing together creatives and researchers to explore the transdisciplinary challenges of climate change.
Lewis Urquhart and Laura Maclean
Mosaic Landscapes - a project exploring land use for health and planet on NHS Scotland estates
Conf. Proceeding
Published Sep 10, 2025

Designing for Sustainability and Wellbeing: Approaches to Stakeholder Engagement

This paper presents a game-based approach to represent diverse stakeholder requirements within human-centred design processes.
Greenspace Health and Well-being Stakeholder Engagement
Andrew Wodehouse, Laura MacLean, Sarah Morton, Sarah Bowyer, and Josafinni Porter Chambers
Film
Published Mar 4, 2025

SHIFT Symposium Video

This video presents the SHIFT Symposium that took place in April 2025 and brought together designers, academics, healthcare practitioners, and creatives to explore the intersection of design and healthcare.
Design HOPES team, Bonnie Brae Productions
Film
Published Mar 4, 2025

Stories of HOPES

Connecting design-led research, sustainable practices, and innovation to transform healthcare systems, communities, and patient care.
Design HOPES team, Bonnie Brae Productions
Journal Article
Published Jul 15, 2025

Energy use in the home and consequences on healthcare practices – a review

Social determinants of health (SDoH), such as the way people use energy in their homes, are influential on patient health. The impacts of SDoH are often utilised to shape both health policy and practices; the impact of energy use in the home should be no exception.
Buildings and Land Architecture Energy
Natalie Bamford, Sonja Oliveira
Journal Article
Published Aug 13, 2025

Design Thinking, Acting, and Making Net Zero Transformational Change Across NHS Scotland

The paper presents a series of eight projects at the intersections of design, health and wellbeing, and complex net zero challenges, with an emphasis on inclusive, equitable, and sustainable design-led interventions.
Buildings and Land Care Communities Digital Design Exploratory Projects Products and Services Travel Architecture Design Hunter Centre For Entrepreneurship Manufacturing And Engineering Management Strategy And Innovation
Paul A. Rodgers, Mel Woods, Sonja Oliveira, Efstathios Tapinos, David Bucknall, Fraser Bruce, Andrew Wodehouse, Gregor White, Marc P. Y. Desmulliez
Conf. Proceeding
Published Dec 20, 2024

Patient Ecosystem Mapping (PEM): Supporting system-shifting in health & care

Many approaches to innovation are active in the health sector, the majority derived from the world of quality improvement. While these methods are potent and can yield significant results, when used in healthcare they frequently concentrate on individual patient pathways or specific components of a healthcare system.
Exploratory Projects
Tom Inns
Conf. Proceeding
Published May 16, 2024

Co-designing for the NHS: the development of sustainable theatre garments

Exploration of sustainable design alternatives for single-use medical garments.
Care
Paul Rodgers, Euan Winton, Lewis Urquhart, Jonathan O'Reilly, Carole Anderson
Film
Published Jul 10, 2025

Design HOPES Introduction Video

Exploring the dynamic link between people and process, and the value design-led research can bring to healthcare settings.
Buildings and Land Care Communities Digital Design Exploratory Projects Products and Services Travel
Design HOPES team, Lateral North
Conference Paper PDF
Published 2025

Cultivating Wellbeing

Exploring the biopsychosocial-spiritual benefits of growing herbs at home for NHS staff.
Health
Laura MacLean, Andrew Wodehouse, Sarah Bowyer, Sarah Morton

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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