A speculation for the future of service design in healthcare: Looking through the lens of a speculative service design framework
Abstract
Service design (SD) is expanding from a discipline focussing on project-centred outcomes and developing toolkits into one that is used as a strategic and transformative driver in the public, social and health sectors. SD in healthcare continues to positively shape people’s well-being and the organizational structure that supports health services. This chapter extends design discourse on ‘Speculative Design’ towards an analysis of service design in organizational and community success. We propose a speculative service design (SSD) framework that explores SD in healthcare through SD as a way of speculating on the future of community well-being. Through this future-focus perspective, we encourage service designers to unpack the complexity of organizational and community-based problems, and to approach SD as a platform to generate discursive dialogues with people (non-users, users and stakeholders) in the provision of health services.
Keywords
Speculative Design, service design, healthcare
Document Type
Book Chapter
Date of Publication
2022
Publication Title
Service Design Practices for Healthcare Innovation: Paradigms, Principles, Prospects
Publisher
Springer
School
School of Arts and Humanities
RAS ID
43312
Copyright
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Comments
Kueh C., Peng F., Ely P., Durrant G. (2022) A Speculation for the Future of Service Design in Healthcare: Looking Through the Lens of a Speculative Service Design Framework. In Pfannstiel M.A., Brehmer N., Rasche C. (eds) Service Design Practices for Healthcare Innovation. Springer, Cham.
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-87273-1_6