Besides my Vastu Shastra experts, to who I already sent my questions, I have artists in mind that I would like to question as well.
Ólafur Elíasson is one exciting light artist who connects spaces with lights and who could have interesting ideas for a hospital environment. In addition to that, he combined light and glass to create interesting patterns throughout rooms.
http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/art/2017/05/691_229561.html
Mexican artist Rafael Lozano-Hemmer is also inspiring and could be supportive of my research, as he connects architecture with interactive light installations.
He also is very interested in how technology can play a role within spaces.
https://www.artsy.net/artist/rafael-lozano-hemmer
https://buffaloakg.org/person/rafael-lozano-hemmer
Iván Navarro is an artist who works with light and combines it with infinity patterns, that’s why he is a potential candidate for either an interview or even a future collaboration. As mentioned in my blogs earlier, I started looking into patterns that are healing to people and realized that endless patterns have a healing effect. This is exactly what I see this artist from Chile integrating in his work a lot for which reason he is so interesting for my project.
Finally, I recognized Yasuhiro Chida as being highly inspiring for the work I am doing. The Japanese artist creates immersive rooms with technology and works with different colors and lights. His art is moving and makes the visitor enter a new world, almost like a room to escape from reality. This is a creation I envisioned too, a space where people can escape from their dull hospital environment.
Further professionals that will be helpful for my project can be found below:
–Nurses, as they are in a hospital environment on a daily basis and know what people struggle with the most.
–Art therapists, since they know what already exists in this sector and what it is missing.
–Ward managers or unit managers in hospitals: those people will be helpful when it comes to the planning approaches and actual implementations. They will know how it actually can be integrated within a ward and what is feasible in reality.
–Neurologists: they are professionals when it comes to the human brain and they will have knowledge of who those rooms will be appropriate for and which patients should avoid them.