Explore how healthcare can take positive steps towards a healthier planet
As the climate emergency increasingly puts pressure on healthcare systems, this bold new exhibition puts sustainable innovation at the forefront. Design HOPES: From Hope to Health showcases how designers, researchers and healthcare professionals are working together to reduce the environmental impact of NHS Scotland.
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 reusable 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 project that is led by five Scottish universities and supported by NHS Scotland, the third sector, and design organisations. It supports urgent Net Zero goals by rethinking how things are made, used, and reused across the health service.
Design HOPES (Healthy Organisations in a Place-based Ecosystem, Scotland) is part of Future Observatory, the Design Museum’s national research programme for the green transition, funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC), part of the UK Research and Innovation (UKRI).
In partnership with University of Strathclyde, University of Dundee, Heriot Watt University, Abertay University, and University of Edinburgh.
