'Material Cultures of the NHS hospital: Exploring Historical Spaces through Historical Objects

随着20世纪30年代手动轮椅技术的进步，轮椅越来越成为医院环境中个人运动的中心。然而，轮椅的意义远远超出了交通工具。作为物质对象，它们不断跨越医学、感官和情感之间的界限。轮椅也不能仅仅塑造和改变使用者对医院环境的感官体验和对疾病的感知；它们也会改变个体在它们面前有意识或无意识的行为、感受和行动。利用轮椅访问感官现象为项目提供了重要的研究范围，例如，1948年以来NHS和政府政策的变化如何影响医院环境的可达性。该项目还将为公众参与提供良好的机会，并有可能帮助博物馆增加动力，扩大可达性，使用交互式感官展览来揭示NHS医院的日常体验。

Following advancements in manual wheelchair technology in the 1930s, wheelchairs havebecome increasingly central to the movement of individuals within the hospital environment.The significance of the wheelchair, however, extends far beyond transportation. As materialobjects, they continually cross boundaries between the medical, the sensory, and theemotional. Nor do wheelchairs solely shape and change users' sensory experiences of hospitalenvironments and perceptions of illness; they also change how individuals in their presence,consciously and unconsciously, behave, feel, and act.Utilising the wheelchair to access sensory phenomena provides the project significant scopeto examine, for example, how changing NHS and governmental policy since 1948 hasaffected the accessibility of the hospital setting. The project will also provide excellentopportunities for public engagement and has the potential to assist museums' increasing driveto widen accessibility, using an interactive sensory exhibition to uncover the everydayexperiences of the NHS hospital.