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Organizing and Designing Health Care
The Action Mill is currently attending the Transform Conference at the Mayo Clinic’s Center for Innovation in Rochester, Minnesota. Over the past two days of tours, workshops, sessions and meeting many new people, I have heard “social change” a number of times often coupled with design.
As a designer with over 15 years of community organizing experience it is exciting to hear that more and more people in design and in health care are thinking about their work in the context of social change. Today, we met a professor of pediatrics, Michael Seid, PhD who is integrating organizing into health care to create a community of patients, doctors and researchers working together to improve health care in innovative ways through the Collaborative Chronic Care Network. His team is even studying organizing and movement building.
For us, social change requires the meaningful engagement and participation of all stakeholders in order to produce an outcome that is better than a zero sum game. As we become more involved in the health care field we look forward to sharing our community organizing and meaningful action design experience with the people and organizations we work with.
