Designing behaviour

Battle in Print: Shaping social policy: designers and health

Saturday, October 31, 2009

Is design’s intervention in healthcare a good thing, or will it ultimately make matters worse—especially for those in greatest need of a cure?

Battle in Print: Putting design and technology

Tuesday, October 3, 2006

The role that designers and technologists play in relation to social development is always changing.

Shaping Social Policy: Designers and Health

Sunday, November 1, 2009

Battle of Ideas festival 2009, Royal College of Art, London

Everyone agrees healthcare needs to be improved, but can attempts to alter patients’ and staff’s behaviour succeed? And will focusing on patient satisfaction be enough to transform the NHS and wider healthcare provision?

Can design save healthcare?

Wednesday, April 28, 2010

Norsk Form, Oslo, Norway

Should design help make cutbacks that target people’s behaviour, or should it be more concerned with advances in science, technology and services that can liberate us from health problems altogether?

A transparent attempt at social engineering

Thursday, September 10, 2009

The initiative to re-design pub glasses to stop them being used as weapons overhypes the problem and the solution.

We have ways of making you healthy

Wednesday, April 21, 2010

Design is the new Big Idea in preventative medicine, but there’s nothing healthy about lifestyle manipulation.

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