Last week, WCVB’s Chronicle aired a segment featuring “You are Here: Wendy’ Welcome to the ED”, a project we worked on with Wendy, her family and MGHfC throughout 2016. After several years of complex medical care as patient at MGHfC, Wendy realized she could use her experience to help other families facing an Emergency Department visit. Drawing inspiration from her experience, Wendy and PAYETTE worked together to develop the nine-minute animated video which is a cartoon hospital guidebook that will be shown to patients in the MGHfC’s emergency department with the aim of alleviating patient stress.
Stuart Baur, who knew Wendy and her family, reached out to colleagues here at PAYETTE, and more than 20 people stepped up to volunteer more than 1,500 hours over 10 months to bring Wendy’s story to life.
Watch the entire video here.
Related:
Bringing Lines to Life
Animating Architecture
Patient View Institute Recognizes “Wendy’s Welcome to the ED”
Wendy’s Theme: Creating the Musical Score
Compositing Animation, Video and Drawings
Guest Post: Working on “Wendy’s Welcome”
Wendy’s Welcome in Healthcare Design Magazine
“Wendy’s Welcome” on the Front Lines
Zag of the Day from STAT’s On Call Newsletter
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.