PhD candidate Yuanrong Guo will be running a creative data methods workshop on Friday 20th November in EFI 2.35. Yuanrong’s work is concerned with the nature of complexity in service design for health, and she invites health and care professionals and researchers, and designers and design researchers to join. See more and sign up here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/what-makes-design-in-healthcare-complex-a-hands-on-collage-workshop-tickets-2003939682535
Overview
A morning of conversation and collage for designers, researchers, and health and care professionals. No art or design experience needed.
Designers increasingly work across healthcare products, services and organisations. This work often involves bringing together different perspectives, negotiating competing priorities and working within organisational constraints. For health and care professionals, working with designers or using design-led methods can also introduce new ways of thinking and collaborating, alongside unfamiliar challenges. But what makes this work complex may look different depending on your role and experience. Whether you work in design or healthcare, or are curious about how they come together, we welcome your perspective.
In this workshop, we will explore these complexities through collage: a simple creative method that can help us notice what we usually take for granted. In small groups, we’ll share themes drawn from designers’ stories of working on healthcare projects, and you’ll reflect on how they connect with or differ from your own experiences. You’ll then create a collage to express your perspective and discuss it with other participants.
It’s a chance to try collage as a creative research method, and to reflect on your own work alongside people from different disciplines.
Who it’s for
We welcome people from different disciplines and backgrounds:
- Designers and design researchers who have worked on healthcare projects or are interested in healthcare challenges. You might work in product design, service design, UX, co-design, participatory design or other areas of design.
- Health and care professionals and researchers who have worked with designers, used design approaches, or are curious about what design could bring to their work.
*There are 15–20 places. Please register so we can prepare enough materials. We are also keeping a few drop-in places on the day. Doors open at 9:00, and the workshop starts at 9:15.
About the research
This workshop is part of a PhD research project funded by Edinburgh College of Art. With your consent, discussions about the collages will be audio-recorded, and the collages photographed. You will receive an information sheet and consent form on arrival, where you can choose how your contributions and artwork may be used.
About the organisers
Yuanrong Guo is a PhD student at Edinburgh College of Art, University of Edinburgh. Her research explores designers’ systems thinking in complex healthcare contexts. Her interests include service design, systemic design and design for complex social challenges.
Professor Sarah Kettley is Professor of Material and Design Innovation at Edinburgh College of Art, University of Edinburgh. Her interests include research through design, craft as a research methodology, wearable technologies, and participatory approaches to design and care.
Dr Autumn Roesch-Marsh is Senior Lecturer in Social Work in the School of Social and Political Science, University of Edinburgh. She is co-director of the Binks Hub, which brings together researchers, community members, practitioners and policymakers to use creativity and the arts to co-create research that makes a difference to people’s lives.
For more information or any questions, please contact Yuanrong at s2667819@ed.ac.uk.
