Minou Afzali

Minou Afzali is Head of Research at the Swiss Centre for Design and Health — Switzerland’s national Competence Centre at the interface between People, Healthcare, Design and Architecture. Prior to that, she was Deputy Head of the Institute of Design Research and Professor of Social Design at Bern Academy of Applied Sciences. Minou was also the coordinator of an interdisciplinary research group at the Bern University of Applied Sciences including experts from the fields of design, architecture, nursing, medical informatics and economics.

Minou is a trained Product Designer and holds a PhD in Social Anthropology from the University of Bern where she wrote her dissertation on the role of design in culture-specific nursing homes in Switzerland.