SENSE-SENSITIVE DESIGN
and rebooting them into forward-looking Pedagogy. We must harness the multiple aspects of paediatrics, together with the emerging neurosciences, to ultimately change the trajectory of teaching and learning as we know it today.
Further reading n McLaughlan R. Engaging young people in architectural research. Three visual methods for understanding the impact of the built environment on children’s wellbeing. Taylor Francis online, 18 December 2023. https://tinyurl. com/23x7k3hr
n Parkinson, D. D. 2001. Securing Trustworthy Data from an Interview Situation with Young Children: Six Integrated Interview Strategies. Child Study Journal 2001; 31 (3): 137-157.
n Birch J, Curtis P, A. James. Sense and Sensibilities: In Search of the Child- friendly Hospital. Built Environment 2007; 33 (4): 405-416.
Sensory Plans are an offshoot of Sense-Sensitive Design, and ‘offer unusual yet insightful levels of information’.
specialist conditions. It is also a leader in paediatric research, with a wonderful 1000 m2
innovation centre centrally
located within the Children’s Health Campus. Its activities are supported by international industry and academia, and range from UX and Wow factor, HealthTech Wearables, AI and Data Science, Digital Platforms, Virtual Engineering Rooms, ‘Walk in’ VR organs, UX Rooms, Data AI and Automation (AIHQ), to Rapid prototyping, 3D printing, and immersives. The Centre actively appeals for ideas and concepts on its ‘Invite Challenge’ site, to further develop – a real opportunity for paediatricians and Educationals to fast forward a much needed new style of teaching and learning. Perhaps Neurodidactics may be the science that could change education?
Conclusion In the past, the healthcare sector has learnt and embraced much from other sectors – from Formula 1 ‘pit stop’ tactics for the resuscitation of newborns, to surgeons adopting aviation ‘flight cockpit’ scenarios in operating theatres, to 3D human-tissue/ bone printing, to cardiothoracic surgeons physically entering VR damaged heart chambers, and orthopaedic surgeons wearing infection control NASA-type astronaut suits. Today healthcare can offer much to multiple sectors, and especially to education. Paediatric knowledge can have a profound and considerable impact in helping to define new models of Pedagogy such as Neurodidactics, Neuroeducation, and beyond. Paediatric insights, guidelines, design
tools, innovation, AI/VR, neurodiversity, and new models of care underpinned by
research, in collaboration with emerging educational neurosciences, will truly prove to be transformational tools for the new generations of teachers and pupils. There is much talk of ‘Education in crisis and conflict’. Pre- and post-COVID the issues have been many, and have included mental health, autism, self-harm, Dyspraxia, poverty, absenteeism, LGBTQ and fear of discrimination, attitudes, behaviour, eating disorders, cyber bullying, peer pressures, self-image, drugs, alcohol, vaping, and much more. “We cannot continue teaching each generation of children like the previous one,” says Scottish historian and education expert, Niall Ferguson. So, let us embrace today’s challenges, deconstructing, reconstructing,
Richard Mazuch
Richard Mazuch is an architect, director of Design, Research and Innovation for Arcadis, and also the founder of TH!NK – the research and development arm of IBI, with whom Arcadis merged in late 2022. An advocate of evidence-based design, he ‘creates innovations that positively impact on specific sectors’. He gains great satisfaction ‘from translating holistic ideas into radical but pragmatic solutions’, actively collaborating with manufacturers to create new interventions, such as the ‘Paepod’, ‘Teaching Floors’, ‘Hot Wall’, ‘Corridor Classrooms’, and the ‘Cloak/Cool Tidy’.
Richard has also frequently worked with the NHS and Department of Health Expert Working Groups and Reference Groups, helping to develop new healthcare strategies and Guidelines. He has co-authored three ‘key’ paediatric guideline documents – HBN 23: Hospital Accommodation for children and young people, Friendly healthcare environments for children and young people, and Mental Health facilities for children and young people. More recently, he has presented at conferences on Neurodiversity, SENS, and CAMHS. He was a founding member of the British Council of School Environments, and has recently contributed to the new CIBSE TM57 – ‘Integrated School Design Spaces’, Chapter 17 – ‘Design Examples’, yet to be released.
August 2024 Health Estate Journal 59
n Martin D, Nettleton S, Buse C. 2019. Affecting Care: Maggie’s Centres and the Orchestration of Architectural Atmospheres. Social Science & Medicine 2019; 240: 112563.
n Adams A,Theodore D, Goldenberg E, McLaren C, McKeever P. Kids in the Atrium: Comparing Architectural Intentions and Children’s Experiences in a Pediatric Hospital Lobby. Social Science & Medicine 2010: 70 (5): 658–667.
n Bishop KG. From their Perspectives: Children and Young People’s Experience of a Paediatric Hospital Environment and its Relationship to their Feeling of Well- being. PhD dissertation, 2008. Australia: The University of Sydney.
n Coad J, Coad N. Children and Young People’s Preference of Thematic Design and Colour for their Hospital Environment. Journal of Child Health Care 2008: 12 (1): 33–48.
Page 1 |
Page 2 |
Page 3 |
Page 4 |
Page 5 |
Page 6 |
Page 7 |
Page 8 |
Page 9 |
Page 10 |
Page 11 |
Page 12 |
Page 13 |
Page 14 |
Page 15 |
Page 16 |
Page 17 |
Page 18 |
Page 19 |
Page 20 |
Page 21 |
Page 22 |
Page 23 |
Page 24 |
Page 25 |
Page 26 |
Page 27 |
Page 28 |
Page 29 |
Page 30 |
Page 31 |
Page 32 |
Page 33 |
Page 34 |
Page 35 |
Page 36 |
Page 37 |
Page 38 |
Page 39 |
Page 40 |
Page 41 |
Page 42 |
Page 43 |
Page 44 |
Page 45 |
Page 46 |
Page 47 |
Page 48 |
Page 49 |
Page 50 |
Page 51 |
Page 52 |
Page 53 |
Page 54 |
Page 55 |
Page 56 |
Page 57 |
Page 58 |
Page 59 |
Page 60 |
Page 61 |
Page 62 |
Page 63 |
Page 64 |
Page 65 |
Page 66 |
Page 67 |
Page 68 |
Page 69 |
Page 70 |
Page 71 |
Page 72
