Beyond walls is an emerging blog based website that aims to capture the emerging development and realisation of the Art and Therapeutic Design programme for the new building and home to the Royal Hospital for Children and Young People, Department of Clinical Neuroscience and Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services, Edinburgh.
The programme consists of over twenty projects and team of over thirty artists, designers and makers forming one of the largest art in healthcare programmes in the UK.
The emphasis is on the integration and enhancement of the patient experience within arrival, waiting, treatment and ward spaces.
To balance the architecture and design led commissions a series of artist fellowships and residencies have been commissioned to run through 2017 and into 2018.
The majority of the design development and fabrication has now been completed, and project teams are now working with specialists to install their work in time for the hospital opening in 2018.
Artists Hans K Clausen and Kjersti Sletteland collaborated with writer Jenni Fagan and over 700 staff and patient […]
‘Duo’, a sculpture by Hans K Clausen and Kjersti Sletteland from their collaborative work the ‘Anatomy of Fleeting […]
The enhanced design of the play waiting areas across the RHCYP was led by design team Warren Design. […]
Kate Ive is the lead artist on ‘Old to New’; a project which aims to share the identity, […]
Emma Butler-Cole Aiken was commissioned to lead the design of the reinterpretation of the stained glass window project […]
Tomorrow will be your last chance to catch the brilliantly received exhibition ‘Anatomy of Fleeting Moments’ at the […]
This weekend will see the final performances of ‘Where it Hurts’, directed by Jeremy Weller, at the Edinburgh […]
Emma Varley’s ‘Dream-scape’ unfolds over six large scale light boxes which are a re-interpretation of the existing stained […]
A series of wall graphics that were designed by artists working with patients and staff of NHS Lothian, […]
Invitation to the launch of this year’s most talked about play at the Fringe 2018. Former NHS Artist in […]
After designing and making the Sanctuary Stained Glass window for the Sciennes Road Royal Hospital for Sick Children […]
During the first stage of the project to design the interiors of the new RHSC’s CAMHS unit, designers […]
Designers Kevan Shaw Lighting Design (KSLD) and artist Claire Hope worked to create the atrium lighting installation at […]
Opens Saturday 12 May to Sunday 8 July 2018, Photo/Press Call 10th May 2018 City Art Centre, 2 Market […]
Patricia is one of the participants in the production being directed and produced by Jeremy Weller as part […]
‘Hospital Impressions’ is a project which comments on the transition of the old hospital building to the new […]
Daniel and William Warren of Warren Design have lead the design for the Pod and Waiting Spaces based […]
Artists in Residence Jeremy Weller and Hans K Clausen have been exploring the relationships and experiences of hospital […]
Building on the success of the ‘Secret Garden’ installation at the current RHSC, a team (headed by artist […]
Earlier this month, NHS and Ginkgo staff were hosted by Dress for the Weather for a tour of […]
Over the past 6 months artist residents Hans K Clausen and Kjersti Sletteland have run workshops across four […]
After a first phase of calls for submissions from filmmakers and creative curators, five film makers and two […]
Three artists have been working to develop wall based graphic artworks to support the wayfinding strategy developed by […]
Artist residents Hans K Clausen and Jeremy Weller have been exploring the relational elements between the staff, patients […]
Last month, the last in a series of workshops with NHS staff to get feedback on the ATD […]
Last month, a workshop co-hosted by DCN fellow Susana Cámara Leret and ‘smeller’ Joy Milne, who has the […]
So inspired by staff, archives, histories, stories, identities, technology and learning about different professions, artist Kate Ive found […]
Exploring ways in which smells encode memories, Susana Cámara Leret’s focus during her DCN fellowship is on experimenting […]
A number of projects on the ATD programme have a focus on linking the histories of the existing […]
Personalisation is a core element of all of the projects in the ATD programme. All the artists working […]
Themes running through the entire ATD programme include patient distraction and personalisation in support of clinical provision. The […]
We recently spent some time catching up with Department of Clinical Neuroscience (DCN) Language and Cognition fellow, […]
Variety of form and brilliancy of colour in objects presented to patients are an actual means of recovery. […]
Last week, the Art and Therapeutic Design (ATD) programme at Little France was featured on Radio Scotland’s Janice […]
Two artist residencies which take as their starting points the relationships and experiences of hospital staff and patients […]
The DCN Creative Research Artist Fellows recently gave a talk at the National Museum of Scotland. Around 100 […]
Emily Hogarth is currently producing some fantastic paper cut out graphics in collaboration with Warren Design to enhance […]
The DCN Creative Research Artist Fellows recently were given a unique opportunity to visit the Dott Theatres which […]
DCN staff kindly gave up their lunchbreak to speak with The DCN Creative Research Artist Fellows about […]
Warren Design recently met with NHS Lothian play specialists to talk about their toy and game proposals […]
Visualisation of the new building that will provide a new home to the Royal Hospital for Children and […]
There is a growing recognition of the value of an enriched environment helping to reduce stress and anxiety
Crafts magazine, an international design journal, have featured the work of one of the project’s designers Peter Marigold.
