Joint meeting with Stakeholder groups on the Draft Arts
Strategy for the New Adult and New Children’s Hospital
Summary of the meeting held on 16th November 2010
The big issues discussed included:
 How the strategy focuses on dignity for patients and staff,
distraction and how patients can personalise their
environment
 How the draft strategy considers areas including wards and
single rooms; family and carer facilities; play areas and
adolescent areas; outpatients and A&E; external areas and
main entrances and access and wayfinding
Joint meeting with Stakeholder groups on the Draft Arts
Strategy for the New Adult and New Children’s Hospital
16th November 2010
Present
Dan Harley, Community Engagement Manager
Jacki McIlraith, Community Engagement Advisory Group
Ann Ferguson, Community Engagement Advisory Group
Jinty Mann, Community Engagement Advisory Group
Anne Macdonald, Community Engagement Advisory Group
Margaret Millmaker, Community Engagement Advisory Group
John McKnight, Community Engagement Advisory Group
Nan McKenzie, Community Engagement Advisory Group
Frank McFarlane, Community Engagement Advisory Group
Lisa Martin, Community Engagement Advisory Group
Deborah MacMillan, Better Access to Health Group
Terry Robinson, Better Access to Health Group
Alan Henderson, Better Access to Health Group
Alison Dunbar, Better Access to Health Group
Ruth Hart, Better Access to Health Group
Margaret Johnston, Better Access to Health Group
Elizabeth Kershaw, Better Access to Health Group
Lisa Kerr, Youth Panel
Dagmar Kerr, Family Panel
Lorna Gray, Community Engagement Team
Apologies
Donald Anderson, Better Access to Health Group
Agnes McGroarty, Better Access to Health Group
Jabeen Muhammad, Better Access to Health Group
Barbara Walker, Better Access to Health Group
In Attendance
Chris Freemantle, Ginkgo Projects
Jackie Sands, Arts and Health Coordinator, Health Improvement Team
Imogen Assenti, Assenti & Co.
Shona Cardle, Chief Executive, Yorkhill Children’s Foundation
Dan introduced Chris Fremantle, from Ginkgo Projects, a public art
consultancy working with Brookfield Europe. Chris will present on the draft
arts strategy for the New Adult and New Children’s Hospitals.
Dan advised that today’s session would
 not cover any clinical aspects of the hospitals but will look at how arts
will be incorporated into the design;
 cover the draft strategy for the New hospitals and would be linked to
the site masterplan in some ways, however it will not extend across the
whole of the site including existing buildings.
Chris began by advising that the art work used in his presentation slides were
inserted purely to illustrate key points and that specific art installations were
not yet decided upon. Places where art would be located have been decided
in broad terms and he will cover this. However at the moment, this is still a
draft strategy, so he welcomed feedback from attendees.
Chris began by explaining to attendees that their views had hopefully been
incorporated by Gingko in the process to construct the draft strategy
specifically in relation to the community engagement publications produced in
2010.
The strategy is creative led and evidence based – the work will be attractive,
but will all be useful in improving health and wellbeing. In their research
Gingko identified the 5 priorities as being important. These are:
 Character
 Functionality/ usefulness
 Infection Control
 accessibility and wayfinding
 future proofing
Chris highlighted that 4 different workstreams will come together including
interior design; wayfinding; landscape design; and therapeutic design. Ginkgo
are responsible for the therapeutic design, however all these areas are linked
and, for instance, there is an important element of way finding in the arts
programme. The main objectives of the arts strategy are in addition to
wayfinding focused on
 dignity for patients and staff (e.g. appropriate areas for staff to talk to
patients or their families/ carers);
 distraction;
 participation and personalisation (allowing patients and staff to
personalise and be part of their environment).
Chris highlighted the key requirements, driven by the patient journey, for
patients, visitors and staff. Chris noted that all art installations will need to
comply with infection control and access requirements.
A mapping exercise has been undertaken to look at priority areas in different
journeys.
Ward Areas and Single Rooms
There is a need to be able to identify where you are as well as creating an
identity for wards. This will be done by designing the art for each floor, based
on the external landscape that can be seen from the ward, with socialisation
spaces having individual elements. The theme will continue throughout the
floor, including in the lift vestibule to orientate people.
Family and Carer Facilities
70 rooms have been identified as dedicated quiet/ interview rooms. Some of
these rooms will have different lighting/ furniture/ carpeting to make them
appropriate to the use of the room. A ‘100 flowers’ arts project aims to bring
flowers into the hospital environment through art by creating different designs
of flowers to form points of interest.
Play Areas and Adolescent Areas
Artists will work with patients in Yorkhill to create images that can be taken
into the new Childrens hospital, helping the children to shape their own
environment.
Outpatients and A&E
In these areas there will be a creative approach taken to reinforce public
access routes to departments through using feature walls keeping with the
themes of the floor. This compliments the signage that will also be visible and
reinforce the wayfinding message.
External areas and Main Entrances
Temporary exhibitions and a performance area will be given space in the
main entrance areas. It is also recognised that importance needs to be given
to children’s art and there will be display areas both on wards and also in
public areas of the new Children’s Hospital.
Access and Wayfinding
Art work will be applied to walls and junctions etc to enable better wayfinding.
Questions
 Jackie – will the strategy include the work of children in the
hospital?
Yes, display areas will be on ground level and at ward level. This could
also include the work of local schools. Every bedroom in the new
Children’s Hospital will also have a magnetic whiteboard allowing
children to draw/ write and stick things allowing them to personalise
their space.
 Jinty – will the shipbuilding history be included in the artwork?
Yes, the concept behind the overall design of the new buildings
incorporates the idea of a Ship (New Children’s Hospital); docked
against a pier (New Adults Hospital). Shipbuilding will be 1 of a number
of themes that take into account both the history of Govan and
Glasgow, as well as the rest of Scotland.
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Jackie Sands – strategy still in development and to be signed off. It will
hopefully enable links with lots of different organisation and community
art projects.
Alison noted that the performance space will also need a loop system
included. Chris agreed to take this back to the project team.
Dan thanked Chris for his presentation.