Nurture - Heal - Support | House of Grey

Michael Sinclair

Nurture - Heal - Support

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As a design studio we believe in creating the opportunity and circumstances for increasing states of health and vitality for everyone in an ecosystem.

Each year House of Grey select an innovative project to support, where we can enhance human lives through design.

The hospital at the heart of our studio community is the Whittington Hospital in Central London – somewhere each of us have visited or stayed in over the years, and some team members have had their children there.

We have been approached by the NHS to redesign one counselling room, one family room and one staff room at the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit. The studio has funded both the design process and a campaign to highlight that NHS trusts depend on donations to support hospitals such as the Whittington. The campaign is called: Nurture Heal Support……which is focused on the NHS (National Health Service).

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The Whittington Health Charity approached us to design these rooms to become the benchmark for spatial design in the NHS, on a local, regional and national level.

This project is about bringing communities together for the long-term, providing a central support network for patients and staff to feel content, held, nourished and nurtured.

“The seeds of Circular Salutogenic Design were sewn when I spent time in the hospital having my son and found the strip lighting, and general design did not feed my soul or support me feeling mentally better after the birth. I wanted to feel supported, I wanted the staff to feel supported so they could work to their optimum not pinched and compromised to work in a challenging, stressful environment.” – Louisa Grey, Founder of House of Grey.

We believe good, free healthcare should be available to all. Having lived through the pandemic where applause quickly became apathy once the imminent danger dispersed, we now see with our eyes wide open that huge the Government cuts in healthcare funding is creating a deeper divide in society, and yet another inequality to battle.

Sometimes work is about inspiring hope not generating profit. As a studio we are not taking a fee for any of our work on this project – we are helping the Whittington Charitable Trust make this happen for their patients, that will have a lasting impact for generations of babies, mothers and elderly people in the North Islington area for years to come.

There is now a huge body of evidence which proves that the approach to a built environment can have a positive or negative impact on quality of life and people’s physical, mental and social health.

We have been tasked to redesign two family patient counselling rooms and one staff room. The studio will be funding both the design process and a campaign to highlight that NHS trusts depend on donations to support hospitals such as the Whittington .

The Whittington Health Charity approached us to design these rooms to become the benchmark for spatial design in the NHS, on a local, regional and national level.

This project is about bringing communities together for the long-term and in the most positive way possible, providing a central support network for patients and staff to feel content, held, nourished and nurtured.

When we toured the neonatal intensive care unit, it became apparent that House of Grey could instil a positive impact to the patients, parents and paediatric staff through Circular Salutogenic Design.

Good, free healthcare should be available to all. Having lived through the pandemic where applause quickly became apathy once the imminent danger dispersed, we now see with our eyes wide open that huge the Government cuts in healthcare funding is creating a deeper divide in society, and yet another inequality to battle.