This September, hear PAYETTE’s Associate Principal Stuart Baur and Director of Creative Engagment Karen Robichaud discuss the Wendy Project at this year’s Healthcare Facilities Symposium. The mission of the Healthcare Facilities Symposium & Expo is to create a multi-disciplinary environment that inspires you to evoke change and the advancement of a better delivery of healthcare through the physical space.
Relieving the Stress of Pediatric Emergency Care
Designing for the health and welfare of those who live, work and play in our spaces extends beyond physical spaces. This includes designing better experiences. Working with a family who wrote a short story explaining what to expect when visiting the Emergency Department, one team of architects worked to translate the written word into a multi-media story. This project offers relief during a stressful and chaotic time, giving children insight into their healthcare experience. As healthcare architects, we bring a clear understanding how space works, but we can do more to foster community and promote patient well-being. Producing a video allowed our team to build skills and push our creativity, unlocking innovative ways to connect and communicate with our clients. This session offers insight from the design team and the family on how we can use our skills to develop unique products and presentations which help promote multimedia-driven stress relief to benefit the patient experience.
Learning Objectives:
1. Identify opportunities to alleviate patient stress through multimedia projects.
2. Learn how to recognize opportunities to engage the patient community and healthcare owners in innovative ways.
3. Learn how non-traditional design challenges can be used to expand & improve skill sets that are increasingly common in large architectural practices.
4. Identify ways to apply design thinking and problem solving to improving the patient experience.
Details:
Tuesday, September 19 | 12:45PM – 2:00PM
Speakers:
Stuart Baur, AIA, Associate Principal, PAYETTE
Darcy Daniels, Family Advisory Council, Massachusetts General Hospital for Children
Karen Robichaud, Director of Creative Engagement, PAYETTE
The 2025 OpenLAB Boston studio work will be exhibited at Virginia Tech Monday, March 2nd through Wednesday, March 4th.
Please join us for the following events on Monday, March 2nd:
11:00am - Lecture with Parke MacDowell
1:00pm Lobby talk with Kevin Sullivan
This year’s studio identifies seven sites along the frayed edges of Boston’s Greenway. The Greenway is a one-mile-long linear park running through the heart of the city, reconnecting downtown Boston with its waterfront. Many of the parcels along its edges remain undeveloped and present mute, blank facades to the public realm. Addressing and repairing these edges through acts of infilling, layering, grafting, framing, and placemaking is the core focus of the studio—SUTURE.