design

Design is an essential layer in most endeavors that aim to improve health and human security, though far too often there is a failure to plan for, finance, and deploy design solutions. Design today is such a sprawling set of activities that we are first motivated to define and create an intelligible framework for the connected activities of architecture, environmental design, industrial design, graphic and digital product design, and apparel design, especially in relation to health and human security. In doing so, we aim to make the integration of design less daunting. We also must embrace an understanding that this framework will evolve both rapidly and perpetually with the continued development of artificial intelligence, including:

In addition to creating a framework of health and human security-related design activities and technological advancement, we are motivated to build a framework of relevant governmental and non-governmental structures (people, workflows, laws & regulations, etc.) and a strategy for integration with these structures, for effective development and implementation of design solutions.

Finally, we are motivated to explore novel approaches to bridging design capabilities and solutions. This involves orienting designers to problems in health and human security that may be beyond their purview, connecting designers to those outside design working to understand and solve these problems, facilitating connection between designers (an architect to a graphic designer, an industrial designer to a digital product designer, and so on), and exploring novel approaches to the finance of design in the service of health and human security.