Topic: Health & Well-being

The Myth of Work-Life Balance: Mapping Unsustainable Work, Patterns of Canadian Work Culture

Mursal Ashrafi, Jillian Harris, Aavrati Kushwaha, Beyza, Ozmen, and Mursal Ashrafi

Understanding the Primary Care Crisis in Ontario

Janine Pierre, Luke Correia-Damude, Brandon Meawasige, and Danielle Pierre

Enhancing Dog Human Relationships

Sayali Junagade, Sripriya Ganta, Leela Krishna Chawan, and Vivek Kant

Designing for Mental Well-being

Shi Hui Saradevi Ng

Health Experience Design

Various authors | Friday, October 10, 2025

Connecting the Dots: Harnessing relationships across time and domains towards meaningful health systems transformation

Navi Boparai, Matthew Hollingshead, and Stephen Canning

Pathways to Planetary Health: Integrating Systems Thinking and Futures Approaches in Engineering Education to Address the Health-Environment Nexus

Jairo da Costa Junior, Dulaj Perera, and Wouter Eggink

Research on Tactile Experience Design in Art Spaces for the Blind from the Perspective of Relational Ontology

Guanqing Hua, Hongtao Zhou*(CA),Xiaotong Zhang

The Value of Systemic Thinking Informed Co-design for Understanding Public Dental Care Experiences

Tania Ivanka

Conversations That Matter : A toolkit to guide end-of-life conversations

Muskan Jain, Victor Jimoh, Vera Karulina, and Dewi Lagerberg

From Dumpsites to Design: A systemic approach towards built environment strategies addressing waste management, air quality and health

Pleuntje Jellema, Bob Njoroge Muhia, and Margaret Macharia Kedogo

A Systemic Design Approach to Dyadic Support in the Care of Multiple Sclerosis

Michael Arnold Mages, Maria Fernanda Ramirez Cifuentes, Chenfei Yu, Bonnie Ilene Glanz, and Jonathan D Zurawski

Untangling Access: Design, policies and the complex landscape of the wheelchair service delivery process

Kahmin Ong, Elizabeth B.-N. Sanders, Yvette Shen, Theresa Berner, Carmen DiGiovine

Reflections on Bringing a Relational Perspective to Systemic Design Work in Disability Services

Rebecca Rubuliak, Paige Reeves, and Ben Weinlick

Designing for Relationality in Ageing in Place: A systemic and service design perspective on healthcare and housing systems

Jodi Sturge, Susanna Nordin, Elke Miedema, and Ivo Dewit

Empowering Lifestyle Changes and Health Identity: A transdisciplinary design methodology

Naomi van Stralen, Jodi Sturge, Rúben Gouveia, and Geke Ludden

Towards Coordinated Care: Mapping shared decision-making service system for multimorbidity management in China

Zhiyi Zhao, Mei Du, and Guosheng Wang

Cultivating Systems Leadership: Two years in

Seanna Davidson and Dana Shen

Redrawing the Arcs in Healthcare: On relationality, systemic design, and the weight of where we place our attention

Ng Yeuk Fan: And yet, when we speak with people—not as patients, but as human beings—they do not ask for services, nor do they ask for departments … They ask to make meaning of medical conditions they live with, and to hold onto their identities in the face of decline. These are not unreasonable things.

Making Room for Joy: Decolonising participatory design through shared practice and performance

Angelique C-Dina, Maria Fernanda Ramirez Cifuentes,Estefania Ciliotta Chehade and Michael Arnold Mages

Practising Systemic Relationality: Applied methods for revealing and reworking system relationships

Rhea Kachroo, Annand Ollivierre, and Autumn Sanders

Improving the End-of-Life Care Experience: Mapping experience touchpoints and systems of end-of-life care via material facilitation

Chenfei Yu and Michael Arnold Mages