Design4Health: call for papers
Design4Health invites papers from researchers and practitioners across the areas of design, creative practice and health in order to develop new dialogues and offer different perspectives.
Aims and scope
Contributors are placed at the interface of design in health practice and research; the conference explores creative approaches and perspectives to enhance understanding and experience, and to improve the efficiency of health and wellbeing services and products.
Given that the Design4Health focus is very much on designing with people instead of for, submissions from individuals using services and products are encouraged, and the sharing of real-life experiences. In particular, papers and posters addressing the specific themes described below are invited.
Themes
The future is now! The overall theme for this conference is Designing Future Health and particularly submissions which consider the role of design in the future of health are welcomed.
For example: https://conference.shu.ac.uk/index.php/events/design4health2020
What will health look like in the future?
Where will health and healthcare be enacted?
How might our lives be configured?
What will the future designer look like? What skills will they need?
How might current research trends (e.g. personalization, interdisciplinarity, circular design) translate into this future for design for health?
Submissions which consider how past trends and current research might inform future practice are encouraged. For instance, papers which look to the past to build our understanding of citizenship, public health, buildings, and those which reflect on how the role of the designer and healthcare practitioner continues evolve.
This year, Design4Health particularly welcomes persons, who consider the role of design in the future of health and care. Participation from researchers and practitioners across the areas of design, creative practice and health are invited, in order to develop new dialogues and offer different perspectives. The conference explores work, which considers how past trends and current research might inform future practice. Submissions that interrogate methods, ethics, evaluation and how knowledge is mobilised are welcome.
Deadlines
Paper abstract deadline: Sunday 5 January 2020, 23:59
Full paper deadline: Sunday 3 May 2020, 23.59
About Design4Health
Established in 2011, Design4Health is a conference that brings together designers and creative practitioners with researchers, clinicians, policy makers and users to discuss, disseminate and test their approaches and methods.