We invited our symposium speakers to challenge attendees to consider the possibilities, opportunities and challenges for design for health in the context of a health system under threat. We asked them to provoke thinking about what it will take for us to truly realise the potential of the intersection of knowledge in this cross-disciplinary space. We were not disappointed.

We heard words like rethink, provocative, disrupt, disobedient and outside the box. We also heard words like future, possibility, opportunity, inspiration and creativity.