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 2

The social hospital: Creating a culture of care

Using impactful, immersive visual art and music to broadcast an aspirational culture of care – one that’s less clinical, kinder, inspirational, and playful.

Chair: Femke Feenstra, Director, architect and interior designer, Gortemaker Algra Feenstra architects, Netherlands

Panel: Mark Titchner, Artist, UK

Laura Waters, Co-chair, National Performance Advisory Group for Arts, Heritage and Design in Hospitals, UK

Lindsey Evenson, Senior associate, Perkins&Will, USA

Martin Jones, Director, Art in Site, UK