We work in the spaces where design meets health.
Our partners profit from wide-ranging expertise, an international network of experts and a unique infrastructure supporting simulations and tests on a 1:1 scale, whether this be in the role of customers contracting for services or collaborative research partners or in the context of professional development.
Customers and research partners
Rethinking spaces, processes and services – for better healthcare
We support hospitals, retirement and nursing homes and home-care service providers as they create user-centred facilities, processes and services. Our focus is on increasing well-being, autonomy, quality and safety in the health sector.
Advantages for you:
- Human-centred design
- Optimised process and workflows
- Innovative technologies
- Carefully thought-out design of spaces and communication channels and media
- Long-term strategic advantages
Evidence-based design for healthy living environments
At the SCDH, architects, interior designers, city planners, UX designers and other design professionals gain access to scientifically sound findings relating to the effects of design on health.
Advantages for you:
- Evidence-based design concepts
- Human-centred solutions
- Greater planning security, lower costs
- Access to our platforms
Science-based support for better construction projects
Hospital and school managers, real estate developers and contracting authorities benefit from our science-based support throughout the entire building process to ensure greater planning security, quality and cost effectiveness.
Advantages for you:
- Solid basis for planning
- Better results through the use of simulations
- Increased cost-effectiveness
- Greater user satisfaction
- Future-proof infrastructure
- Supporting innovation
- Support with calls for bids
Effective representation through well-founded argumentation
We support business associations from the areas of health and care services, architecture, design and social services in their work to shape new developments and promote innovations of relevance for society.
Advantages for you:
- Strengthening your lines of argument
- The opportunity to have your voice heard when it comes to forward looking developments
- Interdisciplinary networking
- Knowledge transfer and professional development
- Visibility and positioning
- Direct support of membership
- Stimuli for structural change
Platform for practical research and innovation
Universities are key partners for the SCDH – in their role as research institutions, education providers and as a driver of developments in society. We provide a platform for converting knowledge from a research environment into practical applications.
Advantages for you:
- Application-oriented research
- Validation in the Living Lab
- Interdisciplinary teaching
- Broad network and project partnerships
- Visibility and societal impact
Sustainable production processes that prioritise health
We support companies in mechanical and electrical engineering as well as the metals industry, the chemical and pharmaceuticals industry, medical technology, the food industry and the watchmaking industry, helping them to design efficient and sustainable production processes that prioritise health.
Advantages for you:
- Optimised work processes
- Human-centred production design
- Sustainable, safe production systems
Design and health
The SCDH understands design as the creation of spaces, settings, objects, information, digital solutions, services and processes.
Health is both a personal and societal value, and one that extends beyond the mere absence of illness. The common good and the autonomy of individuals in all areas of life are always front and center.
The overlap between design and health is a large one. This is because design can have a preventative effect, promote healing, enhance people’s sense of well-being and influence them in positive ways – and do so anywhere that they play, learn, work or live, be that a health institution, a public space, or in their professional or private world.
Approach
Human-centred: We put people, in all of their diversity, and their needs front and centre.
Evidence based: We base our work on scientific findings.
Participative: We make all stakeholders part of the process right from the start.
Wir beziehen alle Beteiligten von Anfang an mit ein.
Iterative: We gradually draw closer to solutions.
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