Purpose: Enable families, visitors and patients to exchange thoughts and reflections around difficult situations at the hospital.
Target group: Patients, family and visitors.
Result: A permanent installation with two trees. This project was also the base for my bachelor thesis in interaction design: Visualizations of stories in a caring situation, where I elaborated the project through digital channels.
Client: The Childrens’ Hospital in Lund.
Me and a former colleague created an interactive installation of two trees in the entrance atrium at the Children’s hospital in Lund.
Below the trees there are boxes with papers, colored pencils and strings. Patients, visitors and families can write or draw a message to share their stories or thoughts – and put them in the trees. In this way, people can feel coherence and comfort with other people in similar, and often tough situations.
This was meant to be a temporary installation during two months, but the trees are still there, constantly filled with new stories – after ten years.
