Design HOPES: Future Observatory - Tools for Transition, group exhibition, Design Museum, London

TY - ADVS

T1 - Design HOPES

T2 - Future Observatory - Tools for Transition, group exhibition, Design Museum, London

A2 - Woods, Mel

A2 - Bruce, F-S

A2 - Rao-Williams, Jennifer

PY - 2025

Y1 - 2025

N2 - Date / Duration 12 September 2025 – August 2026 Venue Design Museum, 224–238 Kensington High Street, London W8 6AG, United Kingdom Future Observatory: Tools for Transition is a year-long free display at the Design Museum, London showcasing four UK-wide design-led research projects that address key challenges in the green transition. Curated by the museum’s Future Observatory research programme in partnership with the Arts and Humanities Research Council, the exhibition presents work in progress that translates design research into practical tools for sustainable futures. Beginning with Design HOPES, the Scotland-based research initiative exploring how healthcare systems can reduce environmental impact and innovate toward net-zero goals, the display also features research on resilient island communities, future-proofed housing and community-centred planning tools. Design HOPES (Healthy Organisations in a Place-based Ecosystem, Scotland) is one of the four Green Transition Ecosystem research projects presented within Tools for Transition. It applies design-led thinking and making to investigate how large public services like NHS Scotland can reduce their environmental footprint and meet net-zero goals. By co-designing interventions — from circular waste-reduction systems to sustainable product prototypes and digital toolkits — in collaboration with NHS boards, design partners and community stakeholders, the project foregrounds systemic and behavioural dimensions of sustainability within healthcare. The Tools for Transition exhibition surfaces these ongoing research processes and early design outputs to a broad public audience as part of institutional research dissemination practice.

AB - Date / Duration 12 September 2025 – August 2026 Venue Design Museum, 224–238 Kensington High Street, London W8 6AG, United Kingdom Future Observatory: Tools for Transition is a year-long free display at the Design Museum, London showcasing four UK-wide design-led research projects that address key challenges in the green transition. Curated by the museum’s Future Observatory research programme in partnership with the Arts and Humanities Research Council, the exhibition presents work in progress that translates design research into practical tools for sustainable futures. Beginning with Design HOPES, the Scotland-based research initiative exploring how healthcare systems can reduce environmental impact and innovate toward net-zero goals, the display also features research on resilient island communities, future-proofed housing and community-centred planning tools. Design HOPES (Healthy Organisations in a Place-based Ecosystem, Scotland) is one of the four Green Transition Ecosystem research projects presented within Tools for Transition. It applies design-led thinking and making to investigate how large public services like NHS Scotland can reduce their environmental footprint and meet net-zero goals. By co-designing interventions — from circular waste-reduction systems to sustainable product prototypes and digital toolkits — in collaboration with NHS boards, design partners and community stakeholders, the project foregrounds systemic and behavioural dimensions of sustainability within healthcare. The Tools for Transition exhibition surfaces these ongoing research processes and early design outputs to a broad public audience as part of institutional research dissemination practice.

KW - design research

KW - green transition

KW - NHS sustainability

KW - healthcare innovation

KW - public exhibition

KW - Future Observatory

KW - Design HOPES

UR - https://designmuseum.org/exhibitions/future-observatory-tools-for-transition?utm_source=chatgpt.com

M3 - Exhibition

PB - the Design Museum

CY - London

ER -