Designing the ‘Hospice of The Future‘

Marie Curie Hospice Liverpool are delighted to welcome two design researchers from the University of Liverpool to conduct a project to design the future of hospice care.

Andrew Tibbles (right) is a Ph.D. researcher in Design for End of life and Dr Farnaz Nickpour (left) is an Associate Professor in Design & Innovation. 

Andrew and Farnaz will be ‘Designers in Residence’ in Marie Curie Hospice Liverpool for a year, where they will study all areas of the hospice. The aim of the Designer-in-Residence programme is to co-define and co-imagine current and future hospice care as an ecosystem of people, objects, environments, technologies, practices and narratives of care. The programme has three distinct objectives and deliverables respectively:

a) co-creating a systems map of the current hospice care;

b) co-defining key values, requirements and challenges in the current system; and

c) co-imagining new value propositions in future hospice care systems.

You can find out more about the work of Dr Farnaz Nickpour and Andrew Tibbles, by visiting the website of their Design Research Lab: www.inclusionaries.com