The project
To design a new dedicated day care Oncology suite for life-limiting Paediatric patients who make frequent hospital visits for the administration of programmed chemotherapy. The space would include consulting rooms, treatment rooms, meeting rooms, reception area and corridors.
The objectives
Our objective was to bring a high-level of design and creativity to a clinical space where children are required to spend long periods across frequent visits, in order to:
/ create a calming and distracting environment that positively contributes to the experience and treatment of the patients
/ reduce stress and anxiety for them, their parents and families and,
/ provide staff with a day-to-day environment which they feel at home in, comfortable and proud of.
Our solution: Other Worlds
Spending frequent, long periods of time in a place that can be intimidating and stressful could become a reality that would get a little too much forall of us. We came up with Other Worlds to be a gentle escape, a distraction
from that reality.
Through art and illustration, the idea of Other Worlds is to take us from our reality to a world fired by our imagination, boundless and filled with unexpected and wonderful things.
To achieve this, our in-house designers created a series of magical illustrations that on instant viewing appear as scenes, of a forest, of the sea, space, but with time and imagination, reveal themselves to be gateways,
portals to other, secret worlds.
For our patients and their families, quite literally, worlds away from where they are right now.
What we delivered: across the project we completed the following tasks:
1. consultation, interviews and focus groups with patients, staff and families to agree the creative brief
2. mood boarding a range of concepts and ideas that developed into the overall creative theme
3. designing that theme into the ward environment using in-house generated, bespoke, illustrations
4. management of all suppliers across the project plus the print and production of all physical assets
5. on-site direction of all aspects of installation and project fulfilment.
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Sable&Hawkes have 20yrs creative, management and technical experience working with NHS development and arts teams, delivering all aspects of the design, production and installation of all kinds of NHS environment projects.
Sable&Hawkes
The Complete NHS Environment Design Service
Creative Design | Production Management | Installation
Tel: 07712 270198
adrian@sableandhawkes.co.uk
