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What We Learnt

Healthcare facilities are a stressful place for many people. Multidisciplinary research is shedding more light on the connection between the body and mind, and how architecture design of built environments contributes to health and well-being. It’s also revealing how a space can affect the sensory nervous system by causing anxiety, stress, or being overstimulating.


Hospital patient rooms should be designed to help improve recovery and support the patient's positive well-being. However, many shared patient rooms do not promote a healthy atmosphere or space for patient recovery which leads to negative experiences and unnecessary stress and anxiety.

Design question

How might we create adaptive hospital patient rooms that facilitate positive emotional and mental well-being during patient recovery?

Iterative Inclusive Design Process

Our Idea
We looked at how patients navigate hospitals and the pain points they have during and after their visits. We decided to narrow it down to shared hospital room space which was where most of their time was spent.
Evaluation
Our mission is to collaborate with hospital patients and stakeholders to create guidelines for adaptive, accessible, and inclusive shared hospital patient rooms. Ultimately, be able to create positive emotions, improve healing and mental well-being.
Conceptual Modelling
We mapped out the hospital patient room functionality, design, and how both influence patients, families, hospital staff, and administrators. Due to their changing needs, we must support a diverse range of people, ensuring that none feel isolated, alienated, or uncomfortable in the rooms.
Prototyping
Our focus is on 2+ beds patient rooms. Through our design, we want to explore whether patients' perceived notion of quality care can change and how this touch point can impact the overall hospital experience of the patients and other user groups as well.

Land Acknowledgement

We would like to acknowledge that we are located on the traditional territory of the Mississaugas of the Credit, the Anishnabeg, the Chippewa, the Haudenosaunee and the Wendat peoples in Toronto, the unceded Algonquin territory in Ottawa, and from the unceded territories of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh Nations in Vancouver.

Team Contributions

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  • Show member: Leslie Espinosa

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  • Show member: Luke Pereira

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  • Show member: Lynn Alkhouri

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  • Show member: Nneka Nnagbo

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