Abstract

Future Health 2050

The beating heart of the hospital is its people, from the nurse and the doctor to the receptionist and the porter, with the patient at the centre. Yet, too often, our social values and connections are easily cast aside, deprioritised and buried under the ubiquity of machines, data-driven demands, bureaucratic processes, and technical jargon.

Organised by European Healthcare Design in collaboration with Art in Site, each 90-minute episode of 'The Social Hospital' webinar series focused on a different impact of the social hospital, featuring international case studies showcasing how art, in combination with technology, can connect patients, staff and the wider community, enabling stories to be shared and tales to be told that build empathy and connection to improve healing, recovery and wellbeing.

Episode 1

The social hospital: Celebrating identity, expression and diversity

How healthcare portraiture and self-expression can drive new conversations, attitudes, and self-perception about the role of medicine – its ideals, its history, its responsibilities, and its future.

Chair: John Zeisel, Founder, I’m Still Here Foundation; Hearthstone Institute, USA

Panel: Ejatu Shaw, Photographer, UK

Rolake Ojo MD, Doctor and graphic designer, UK

Emily Thomas, Arts Co-ordinator, CW+ (official charity of Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust), UK

Louisa Williams, Director, Art in Site, UK