The Health Design Lab is a creative space where Health and Design collide in the most exciting ways.

 
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Our method: put people first.

 
 
 

Health Design Thinking

Health Design Thinking, 2nd Edition, co-written by Ellen Lupton and Dr. Bon Ku, will be published by the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum and MIT Press in February 2022.

 
 
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Upcoming EventS

 
 

Come down to the Health Design Lab for our Open Sessions and “jam” with faculty, staff, students, and other design community members about ideas for making the world a better place. On occasion we will host open workshops and classes taught by experts in the field.

Contact us if you have an idea for an Open Session or want to sponsor an event!

 

featured Programs

 

Watch the Sessions from this Season!

Designing on the Front Lines (DOTFL) is a series of online conversations organized by the Health Design Lab at Jefferson University School of Medicine along with Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum. In this virtual forum, designers and doctors talk about designing better services, PPE, public spaces, and more in the age of COVID-19. Presented by the Health Design Lab at Thomas Jefferson University and Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum. Season 1 took place in summer 2020.

Human-Centered: Health Design Student Symposium 2024

Sidney Kimmel Medical College’s SI-Design Track, powered by the Health Design Lab, is a groundbreaking 4-year curricular program where medical students conduct research at the intersection of health and design while learning to be creative leaders who are prepared to tackle tomorrows ever-changing healthcare landscape. Through a series of engagements in the Health Design Lab, students learn and apply Health Design Thinking methods to identify a real world healthcare challenge and design solutions that can have a real impact on people's lives.

Design Lab Podcast

 

Design Lab Pod is currently on a production hiatus. In the meantime we have 128 amazing episodes for you to listen to! ——>

Check out Design Lab with Bon Ku! In each episode of the podcast Bon and his guests tell stories about how the worlds of design, art, science and health intersect. Listen and learn new insights, hacks and design principles that you can apply to your own life. New episodes every Thursday!

 
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past and present PARTNERS

 
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