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Storytelling is a powerful method to generate ideas, explore possibilities, and inspire innovation. In the context of co-design, storytelling goes beyond simply telling a tale—it's about collaboratively creating narratives that spark creativity and challenge current thinking. By weaving together fictive scenarios, storytelling helps teams imagine future experiences, user journeys, and solutions that may not yet exist, but can guide the development of new products or services.
This workshop will introduce you to the method of storytelling-based co-design and show you how to apply the method. The facilitator will help you and your group explore digital health scenarios and imagine future possibilities. By situating your stories in the future, you’ll be encouraged to step away from current realities and limitations, enabling you to envision alternative solutions that go beyond existing constraints.
Throughout the workshop, participants will collaborate to create stories that feature imagined patients, contexts, and experiences. These stories will then serve as a springboard for generating design ideas that can shape the future of healthcare or other relevant areas.
This workshop is for you if you are a UK-based health or care professional, manager, researcher, student, patient, family carer, or Small to Medium sized Enterprise using or (or interested in using) a co-design process and methods to develop a digital health technology. You can be at any stage of a project.
Facilitator: This workshop will be facilitated by Dr Alison Thomson, a Senior Lecturer in Patient Public Involvement (PPI) and Public Engagement in Science (PES) at Queen Mary University of London (QMUL). Her practice-based research is situated at the intersections of PPI, PES, Science and Technology Studies (STS) and Design Research.
Support to attending events: For any access inquiries or requests, please contact codesignhub@kcl.ac.uk.
This event is free to attend.
Coffee and tea will be provided.
- Speaker
- Dr Alison Thomson
- Hosted by
- London Institute for Healthcare Engineering - LIHE