Healing SPACES

Transforming SPACES, Transforming LIVES

Healing SPACES

Transforming SPACES, Transforming LIVES

Healing SPACES

Transforming SPACES, Transforming LIVES

Mission

Approach

Healing Spaces uses an evidence-based approach to positively transforming our experience of hospital spaces. Through a process of consultation, the community benefits from the opportunity to be involved in the design process. Giving a voice to the community enables them to identify and express their needs and their hopes for how such spaces could be improved.

Projects

Organ Donor Sculpture

Working with the organ donor team at James Cook University Hospital, Middlesbrough, the idea for this special garden evolved. With the aim of creating a beautiful, contemplative space, for family members to spend time and remember their loved ones, the design incorporates a new planting plan, seating areas and a sculpture celebrating the generous ‘gift of life’ that organ donation represents.

Critical Care Garden

The Critical Care garden, which was made possible thanks to fundraising by staff, Our Hospitals Charity and the local community, offers patients a private, tranquil space to spend precious time with their loved ones away from the clinical environment. When not used by patients, the garden can be accessed by critical care staff, offering a restful place for them to take some time out.

Garden Screens - St Oswalds Hospice

Viewed from patients’ bedrooms and the family room of the hospice, this series of five screens create a fascinating focal point, projecting a shifting play of shadow, light and colour onto the surroundings. The laser cut corten steel has a warm, rich texture and colour-changing dichroic panels shift in hue depending upon the angle of light. Creeping thyme plants complement the artwork.

Garden Gates - St Oswalds Hospice

Designed for the children’s unit of St Oswald’s Hospice in Newcastle upon Tyne, these gates form the entrance to the children’s garden. Working with River Forge blacksmiths, the gates were fabricated in mild steel and feature a stunning tree design in dichroic glass, which spans across the two gates. A magical, ever-changing, play of light and colour is experienced by the children and, on sunny days, the tree design projects onto the surroundings.

Latest

Evaluation of the Critical Care Garden

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