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A healthy outlook
Jane Watt reports on the Brighton symposium Is Design Good For You? considering the range of projects that artists undertake in healthcare environments.
The recent symposium at Brighton University, Is Design Good For You? Interdisciplinary approaches to learning and teaching in art, design and health, gave a healthy smorgasbord of debate, as well as examples of how artists and designers work in the discipline of health and healthcare environments.1 The bias in subject, as well as audience, was unsurprisingly design-oriented: the event was hosted by The Centre for Excellence in Teaching and Learning through Design; half of the speakers and workshop leaders, together with almost half of the attendees, were from the disciplines of architecture and design. In magpie-mode I went in search of shiny, bright artists' projects. Hospital buildings and improvement projects are often big-budget affairs, and artists are routinely involved in design teams as well as commissioned to make new work. These glittering new buildings and the art commissioned for them often make the headlines.2 This symposium only referred to one such example, the nearby new Royal Alexander Hospital designed by BDP that won the Prime Minister's Better Public Building Award in 2007. The other examples of art in health were, interestingly, more low-key, but no less...
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