The Glasgow School of Art (GSA) is the founding partner in the Digital Health & Care Innovation Centre (DHI). Launched in partnership with the University of Edinburgh in 2013, the core partners in the DHI are currently The University of Strathclyde and The GSA. As a core partner, The GSA brings expertise in design-led innovation and world-class research in health and care to the DHI. We are a multi-disciplinary team of Design Researchers and Creative Technologists based at The GSA’s Innovation School in Glasgow and Moray. We work across urban and rural contexts – locally, nationally, and internationally. Our participatory design approach to innovation is person-centred, not technology-driven, focusing on understanding the lived experience of people and their preferable future ways of living and working. Participants with lived experience are supported to share their stories, challenges and ideas using bespoke methods and tools. Through visualisation, collaborative making, prototyping, and simulation we enable new ways of collaborative working and the translation of insights into future health and care products, services, and systems.
This is a selection of projects to celebrate ten years of meaningful co-design at the DHI. We have chosen examples of lived experience engagements that informed concepts for innovating health and care across a range of diverse contexts and topics.
The exhibition was part of the Highland Campus Summer Show, 2023. ​​​​​​This event showcased the rich learning experiences offered at The Innovation School, and celebrates the outstanding research undertaken at the Highland Campus.