100 years of Care: Design-based explorations of a 100 years of care journeys

This edited volume shares the proceedings of the Does Design Care...?[3] workshop.

In this exercise we asked the workshop participants to envision a “100 Years of Care Journey” for which we suggested five simple questions could be useful prompts;
• Where do the major points (obstacles, problems, opportunities) lie?
• Are there periods of more and/or less care?
• What do we need at what points?
• Different priorities for different care journeys?
• Would a tool like this help?

In each instance an written abstract of between 400 and 500 words accompanies a visual map interpreting each researchers vision for 100 years of care.

Does Design Care…? is one of the initiatives of the Design Research for Change programme initially delivered under Paul Rodgers’ AHRC Design Priority Area Leadership Fellow (AH/ P013619/1 and AH/P013619/2). This programme, which includes the ongoing Does Design Care…? series of events, aims to “achieve real and long-lasting transformation and impact, to enact alternative, positive, and help achieve real developments within the culture of design research that will equip it for the challenges of the future”. The first Does Design Care…? [1] workshop was held in 2017 at Imagination, Lancaster University, UK. Does Design Care…? [2] was held at Chiba University, Japan, in 2019. And Does Design Care…? [3] was held at Ulster University, Belfast, Northern Ireland in 2023. Belfast had 42 researchers and practitioners from a wide range of disciplines (and from a wide global community including the Australia, India, Israel, UK/Ireland and Jordan) to explore, discuss, and debate what it means to care. Does Design Care...? [3] was funded by the AHRC Impact Acceleration Account held by Ulster University [AH/X003361/1], as part of Work Package 3, Humanising Healthcare. 27 researchers contributed to this output.