How do our buildings and landscapes affect well-being?

The projects in this theme focus on issues surrounding energy and health, collective environmental behaviours for health, designing with waste from single-use plastics for permanent architectural products and improvements in indoor air quality (IAQ).

How can we embed environmental sustainability and health equality in all aspects of care?

This theme explores designing healthcare services that empower individuals, enhance health outcomes, and promote environmental sustainability.

How can design research help engage communities in processes of change?

This theme aims to link design research with behaviour change and understandings of place to co-design physical spaces, services, and interventions.

How can design research in 'serious games' inform approaches to resource mangement?

This theme aims to use data analytics to drive redesign and transformation programs, evaluate their impact on health outcomes, and explore data-driven technologies to transform health and social care delivery.

How can we explore best practice and barriers to progress in ward and theatre settings?

This theme explores ways to address the unsustainable consumption of materials in healthcare by adopting circular economy principles to reduce waste and improve practices.

How can exploratory projects point the way towards a regenerative framework for design in healthcare settings?

This theme explores innovative ways to showcase green transition initiatives, proposing new approaches to healthcare leadership, staff training, and sustainability-driven design to achieve Net Zero targets

How can we start to understand, and change, the massive impacts of health related travel and logisitics?

The projects in this theme address a level of service and patient care which requires a significant amount of planned and unplanned travel, resulting in environmental impacts.