Sensing Spaces of Healthcare: Rethinking the NHS Hospital

在医疗保健领域，设计是一个紧迫的问题。糟糕的医院设计影响到工作人员、病人和访客，对医院的批评也越来越普遍。这些批评经常声称我们在医疗保健方面失去了“整体”设计，并参考历史例子来证明他们的观点，但反复引用相同的几个例子（南丁格尔病房，疗养院），并关注它们的视觉特征（颜色，光线）。该项目为医院历史学家、设计师和用户提供了一种接近医院历史的新方法。它的重点是最近和研究不足的国家卫生服务医院。它还通过身体和感官重新思考医疗环境的历史，关注场所的感觉而不是外观。利用一系列跨学科的方法，从档案研究到实地考察和参与式艺术，该项目将探索医院感官的近代史。该项目将考虑NHS医院的感官环境（或“sensescapes”）如何随着新的设计趋势、建筑、材料、技术、自然和人类行为而变化。它还将考虑不断变化的社会、文化、政治和经济因素如何影响人们对同样的“感官刺激”的体验。总体而言，通过将感官作为人、技术、材料和自然之间互动的生产场所，该项目将重新思考医院的历史，并为医学人文和感官研究的学者提供新的途径。该项目的研究结果也将为当前和未来的医院设计提供富有想象力的重新思考，包括为医疗保健环境开发创新的多感官设计干预措施。根据UKRI的战略，该项目将“识别和解决对人们最重要的复杂社会挑战，与他们合作……以实现最大的社会价值为目标。”它将与大奥蒙德街医院（伦敦）、南米德医院（布里斯托尔）和健康建筑师合作，为特定类型的医院用户/工作人员或医院空间找出问题或“问题”，这些问题可能从感觉刺激不足到感觉过载。反过来，这些“问题”将通过与艺术家、设计师、慈善机构和NHS信托基金合作的原型设计和开发过程，形成感官设计解决方案的基础。这些产出将与从病人到专业人员在内的所有使用医院的人一起产生，并对他们有价值。总体而言，该项目为医疗空间的历史提供了一种新颖的方法，帮助我们重新思考医院的历史及其与当前设计挑战的相关性。

Design is a pressing issue in healthcare. Poor hospital design impacts staff, patients and visitors, and critiques of hospitals are increasingly widespread. Such critiques often claim that we have lost 'holistic' design in healthcare and refer to historical examples to make their case, but draw repeatedly on the same few examples (Nightingale wards, sanatoria) and focus on their visual features (colour, light). This project offers a new way of approaching hospital history, for the benefit of hospital historians, designers and users. It focuses on more recent - and under-studied - hospitals of the National Health Service. It also rethinks the history of healthcare environments through the body and the senses, focusing on how places have felt rather than how they have looked. Using a range of interdisciplinary methods, from archival research to site visits and participatory arts, the project will explore the recent history of the senses in hospitals. The project will consider how NHS hospital sensory environments (or 'sensescapes') changed as a result of new design trends, architecture, materials, technologies, nature and human behaviours. It will also consider how changing social, cultural, political, and economic factors affected people's experiences of the same 'sensescapes'. Overall, by taking the senses as productive sites of interaction between people, technologies, materials and nature, this project will rethink the history of hospitals and provide new approaches for scholars of medical humanities and sensory studies.The project's findings will also feed into an imaginative rethinking of current and future hospital design, including the development of innovative multi-sensory design interventions for healthcare environments. In line with the UKRI strategy, the project will 'identify and tackle the complex societal challenges that matter most to people, in partnership with them ... with the aim of delivering maximum societal value'. It will work with Great Ormond Street Hospital (London), Southmead Hospital (Bristol) and Architects for Health to pinpoint issues or 'problems' for specific types of hospital user/worker or hospital spaces, which might range from sensory under-stimulation to sensory overload. In turn, these 'problems' will form the basis for sensory design solutions through a prototyping and development process in collaboration with artists, designers, charities and NHS Trusts. These outputs will be produced with and of value to all those who use hospitals, from patients to professionals. Overall, the project offers a novel approach to the history of healthcare spaces that helps us to rethink hospital histories and their relevance to current-day design challenges.