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Taking Singapore as a laboratory for thinking and designing future healthcare spaces, services, and deliveries, architecture, and industrial design students worked together to develop innovative and scalable solutions for a distributed healthcare system in the year 2030. The projects are collaborative, multi-scalar, and multi-stakeholder in approach. They considered near-to-far-future scenarios for a distributed system across different sites, touchpoints, and experiences by harnessing digital technologies, deploying connected care platforms, and being supported by grassroots organisations, social agencies, and communities. The paper will share the critical reflections and outcomes from the studio led by an architect, experience, and industrial designers working in academia and the industry. The paper argues that designing a system-based healthcare future demands a re-tooling of current architecture education to one that is multidisciplinary, collaborative, and empathetic.
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Kong, T. (2023). Healthcare 2030. A Design Studio on the Future of a Distributed System in Singapore. In: Hasan, A., Benimana, C., Ramsgaard Thomsen, M., Tamke, M. (eds) Design for Health. UIA 2023. Sustainable Development Goals Series. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-36316-0_34
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