Cense is undertaking many projects that focus on strategic design for health and wellbeing, including those tied to clients, teaching, and development. Watch this space as more of these projects are written up and presented.
The Design Loft
The Design Loft is the first of its kind program to train and support health professionals in design foundations using a largely email-based software platform. Building on the Substack platform, The Design Loft continues the work that we did running the multi-year training program for professional evaluators at the annual conference of the American Evaluation Association by the same name.
eHealth Literacy
The eHealth Literacy project represents more than 25 years of development, research, and scholarship on the establishment of the concept of eHealth Literacy. In collaboration with Order of Canada recipient and former founding dean of York University, Dr. Harvey Skinner, the eHealth Literacy initiative is focused around the enormously successful and widely used eHealth Literacy model and scale, which has recently been updated. The eHealth Literacy Scale, first published in 2006, is the first and most popular means of assessing people’s skills and capacities for using information technologies for health. The instrument has been used worldwide and has been translated into more than 40 languages.
Design for Health Curriculum
Working with colleagues at OCAD University Faculty of Design, we are contributing to the redesign and early-stage development of a transformed graduate program in Design and Health .
Alpine Design Lab
This is a special project of Cense, which is focused on the application of futures thinking and strategic foresight to complex health, environmental and social problems. The Alpine Design Lab focuses on specific, timely projects to inform clients and health policy leaders.