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Connecting Home, Health and Healthcare Pathways: Workshop Report

Author
Anosh Butt, Grainne McGill, Carolina Recart, Laura MacLean and Sonja Dragojlovic-Oliveira
Published
Oct 2, 2025

The Connecting Home, Health and Healthcare Pathways workshop was convened to explore how housing and environmental risks might be assessed in practice, what indicators should be included, and who should be responsible for carrying out these assessments across settings. By focusing on the practicalities of implementation, the workshop sought to generate grounded, practice-based knowledge that could inform the design of future tools or frameworks. In particular, it aimed to ensure that any such tool would be feasible to use within the time, resource, and safeguarding constraints faced by health, housing and care professionals, while also remaining sensitive to the lived realities of the individuals and communities they serve.

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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