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Choosing art for healing environments Incorporating art into the healing environments is more than hanging aesthetic pictures on the walls; for Peterborough & Stamford Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust it’s been a two-year long programme, providing the opportunity to create an appealing healthcare environment. The art aims to build identity for individual departments, aid wayfinding as well as reflecting the building’s historical context and showcasing the creative skills and resources of the local community. As the new Peterborough City Hospital approaches practical completion this Summer, the Trust’s art steering group, including Nightingale Associates representatives, has chosen two artists to provide artwork for selected areas of the new-build. Dan Savage and Linda Schwab have been selected to provide wall and glazing treatments throughout Peterborough’s new City Hospital. The artist selection process has come to fruition following two years of planning. Dan Savage will provide wall and glazing treatments in the children’s out-patient department, adolescent in-patient, emergency centre, bereavement suite centre and NICU. Linda Schwab will provide artwork for haematology and oncology unit, waiting area, children’s waiting day treatment unit, children’s waiting area in the head and neck unit and glazing in the faith centre. Nightingale Associates’ Interior Design Lead, Elizabeth Petrovitch, said: “The children’s departments feature high in the priority art areas as the effect of artwork and bright colour themes upon children’s recovery cannot be underestimated.” While visual arts form the backbone of the arts strategy, the new hospital’s relationship with the community it serves through the building’s art and other activities has been explored. Students from a local school are creating paintings for particularly areas, temporary exhibitions and installations will be incorporated through partnerships with the local museum and art gallery and even hospital staff are creating artwork for the staff spaces. A positive contribution to a locally relevant design language has been made by Nightingale Associates in their design of wayfinding symbols. “A well considered piece of art can instil feelings of hope, comfort, reflection and joy. It is a window out of the highly functional world of the hospital, a break from the thoughts and feelings associated with a hospital visit,” adds Elizabeth. The art is planned to be installed by the end of the year but the art programme will continue through the Trust after the handover in Autumn. |
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Nightingale Associates’ portfolio is vast and it includes many large, high profile projects but, far from being a practice that exclusively undertakes such commissions, the majority of our staff are involved in smaller scale projects, ranging from primary care and community hospitals to schools and university additions. Chief Executive, Richard Harrington, commented, “In fact, much of our work also involves refurbishment of existing facilities, presenting unique challenges that result in providing often high quality historic buildings with a new lease of life. We have recently completed several community hospitals in Wales where the smaller scale has permitted a concept that is based upon references to architectural context and the use of traditional, locally sourced materials that would otherwise be difficult, if not impossible to realise on larger scale developments. “The smaller scale projects also permits an attention to detail and variety of architectural delight that cannot be achieved on larger scale schemes where, by their very nature, repetition is unavoidable,” added Richard. Examples of creative solutions to challenging briefs with tight budgetary constraints can be seen on scheme such as Viking Day Centre, Ysbyty Alltwen, Porthmadog, Lutyens Crypt Link at Liverpool Metropolitan Cathedral, Ysbyty Cwm Rhondda and student accommodation at Princess Elizabeth Hospital, Guernsey.. |
Events 
In May, Director of Design Research and Innovation, Richard Mazuch spoke at the ‘Patient Environments by Design’ conference. Co-presented by Director of Nursing at Kings College NHS Foundation Trust, Geraldine Walters, , the seminar addressed patient empowerment and the impact of the BedPod on dignity and privacy. 
In collaboration with the British Council for School Environments, Nightingale Associates held a free seminar on ‘Architecture of the Mind’ at the new Southwark Council offices in June. Exploring the relationship between mental health and special educational needs, the interactive session inspired new-thinking in school design.
Forthcoming events include: HaCIRIC Conference, Scotland |
The Exchange 
We believe thought-leadership is important. However, it is just as important to listen to the voice of the sector we are designing for. There are currently some really exciting spokespeople addressing key-topics in both the public sector and the construction industry. Some people we’ve been following on Twitter recently: @ianfordham @Zerochamp @MelStarrs We welcome your feedback.
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