BBH story on recent Arts and health projects
Better Building in Healthcare ran the story Arts and health – more than just a picture a couple of weeks ago featuring the ‘Podium Landmarking’ project by Rachel Mimiec, Graphical House and Haa Design for the Queen Elizabeth University Hospitals in Glasgow. The landmarks are designed to work like landmarks in towns and cities, telling you that you are at an important junction. The conventional signage works like street names and directions. They compliment each other.
Rachel and the team did some workshops with staff and patients to understand what constituted a ‘landmark’ and the answer they came back with was ‘something quirky’ that stood out. They then asked some 25 members of staff (current and retired) to tell them about something quirky that happened to them. The result was distilled down in discussion with the NHS Capital Planning Team and then developed by Graphical House working with Haa Design into 3d illustrations eventually built by specialist fabricators, Interior Solutions in Corian (the Dupont kitchen surface product).
That’s how you get a jar of beach sweeties or a pair of flying saucers (or 19 other quirky images) working as landmarks helping people remember where they’ve been in a hospital.
You can also see more about the project on Ginkgo Projects and NHSGGC’s Arts & Health
CHRIS FREMANTLE 
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