Swiss Centre for Design and Health

Die interdepartementale Forschungsgruppe Health Care Communication Design (HCCD) an der Berner Fachhochschule bringt seit 2007 Forschende aus unterschiedlichen Departementen zusammen, damit neue Ideen und Konzepte aus den spezifischen Perspektiven der einzelnen Fächer untersucht werden können ; dazu gehören auch Forschende der Hochschule der Künste Bern HKB. Ihr Hauptaugenmerk liegt dabei auf der Frage, wie Design zur Gesundung des Einzelnen und der Gesellschaft insgesamt beitragen kann.

Since 2007, the interdepartmental research group Health Care Communication Design (HCCD) at the Bern University of Applied Sciences has brought together researchers from the departments of Architecture, Wood and Civil Engineering, Health Professions, Engineering and Information Technology, and Business to form an interdisciplinary environment in which new ideas and concepts can be examined by a wide variety of experts under the idiosyncratic perspectives of each department; in this, they have been joined by researchers from the Bern University of the Arts (HKB). Their overarching focus is on how design, in its broadest interpretation, can serve as a means to improve the health of the individual and, in effect, of society as a whole.