European Healthcare Design

Live from EHD 2025: Art, Care and the Environment for Healing

What role can art and design play in shaping how we feel, connect, and heal in healthcare spaces? In this final episode of the series on EHD 2025, we turn our focus to arts and health — and explore how creative collaboration can transform even the most intense clinical environments. Recorded live at the 2025 European Healthcare Design Congress, this episode features conversations with: * Martin Jones, Director at Art in Site, on designing for moments of emotional intensity from A&E to mental health  * Laura Waters, Co-chair of the National Arts in Hospitals Network, on creating a national framework for arts in hospitals * Tim Ashton, Director at Hunters Architects, on collaborating with artists to deliver spaces that support curiosity, compassion, and a stronger culture of care * Reflections from delegates across the congress as they share their take aways from the congress. Featuring in order of appearance - Heather Macey (Makower Architects), Hala El Khorazaty (Perkins & Will) and Cliff Harvey (Waterloo Regional Health Network) Learn more about the congress at europeanhealthcaredesign.eu Sign up for the EHD newsletter to stay updated on future events, insights, and resources: europeanhealthcaredesign.eu/newsletter-sign-up [https://europeanhealthcaredesign.eu/newsletter-sign-up] This episode is supported by our sponsor, Art in Site, a design studio transforming healthcare environments through integrated art, interiors, and wayfinding. Visit artinsite.co.uk [https://www.artinsite.co.uk/] to learn more. Learn more about the National Arts in Hospitals Network and their guidance on delivering arts and cultural programmes in hospital settings at nahn.org.uk. [http://nahn.org.uk/] Image credit: Children's Emergency Department at Stoke Mandeville Hospital, courtesy of Art in Site. The European Healthcare Design podcast is produced by Urban Podcasts. [http://urbanpodcasts.co.uk]

Live from EHD 2025: Designing for Autonomy, Resilience and Connection

In this second episode of the EHD Podcast recorded at the European Healthcare Design 2025 Congress, we’re exploring how environments can do more than treat illness - they can actively support autonomy, resilience, and human connection. Recorded live at EHD 2025, this episode features three guests whose work spans architecture, critical care, and place branding. Each brings a unique lens on how healthcare spaces and systems can better serve the people within them: * Femke Feenstra (Partner, Gortemaker Algra Feenstra) introduces the concept of the Reactivating Hospital, showing how spatial design can promote movement, independence, and recovery. * Dr Tom Best (Clinical Director, King’s College Hospital) reflects on designing under pressure, from critical care to emergency settings; and why clinicians should get involved in the process. * Ibrahim Ibrahim (Managing Director, Portland Design) shares what healthcare can learn from retail, and how thoughtful design can help people connect emotionally to the places they go for care. * Plus, we return to the congress floor to hear what surprised or challenged attendees during their time at EHD. Featuring Tara Veldman (Billiard Leece Partnership), Hala El Khorazaty (Perkins & Will), Stephanie Costelloe (BVN) and Neil Logan (BVN). Learn more about the congress at europeanhealthcaredesign.eu [https://europeanhealthcaredesign.eu/]. Sign up for the EHD newsletter to stay updated on future events, insights, and resources: europeanhealthcaredesign.eu/newsletter-sign-up [https://www.europeanhealthcaredesign.eu/newsletter-sign-up]. This episode is supported by our sponsor, Art in Site, a design studio transforming healthcare environments through integrated art, interiors, and wayfinding. Visit artinsite.co.uk to learn more. Image credit: The Reactivating Hospital, courtesy of Gortemaker Algra Feenstra. The European Healthcare Design podcast is produced by Urban Podcasts. [http://urbanpodcasts.co.uk]

Live from EHD 2025: Health, Equity and the Future of Care

In this episode of the EHD Podcast, recorded at the European Healthcare Design 2025 Congress, we explore bold ideas reshaping how we think about health and healthcare - from justice and inequality to architecture, community, and the spaces that help us heal. You’ll hear from: * Professor Sir Michael Marmot, Director of the UCL Institute of Health Equity - whose keynote speech at EHD called for urgent action on health equity. * Ab Rogers, Creative Director of Ab Rogers Design, and Dr Ash Ranpura, Neurologist and Co-founder of DRU+, who invite us to reimagine healthcare spaces as places of empowerment, joy, and belonging, not just treatment. * Voices across the congress answering the question: “In the future, hospitals will be…?" Featuring Stephanie Costelloe (BVN), Dr Tom Best (King’s College Hospital), Scott Leslie (Art in Site), and Richard Darch (Archus). Whether you’re a designer, clinician, policymaker or changemaker, this episode is a powerful reminder that health is about more than medicine. It’s about the systems, spaces and stories that shape our lives. Learn more about the congress at europeanhealthcaredesign.eu [https://europeanhealthcaredesign.eu/]. Sign up for the EHD newsletter to stay updated on future events, insights, and resources: europeanhealthcaredesign.eu/newsletter-sign-up [https://www.europeanhealthcaredesign.eu/newsletter-sign-up]. This episode is supported by our sponsor, Art in Site, a design studio transforming healthcare environments through integrated art, interiors, and wayfinding. Visit artinsite.co.uk artinsite.co.uk [http://artinsite.co.uk] to learn more. Image credit: Professor Sir Michael Marmot courtesy of instituteofhealthequity.org [http://instituteofhealthequity.org]. The European Healthcare Design podcast is produced by Urban Podcasts. [http://urbanpodcasts.co.uk]

What Lies Beyond the Hospital? A Glimpse of EHD 2025

In this opening episode of the European Healthcare Design Podcast, we’re joined by three leading voices in healthcare design: Sunand Prasad OBE, Programme Director of EHD; Kieron Boyle OBE, CEO of the 100x Impact Accelerator; and Louisa Williams, Founder and Director of Art in Site. Together, they explore this year’s conference theme — Beyond the Hospital: Form, Function, and the Future Health Ecosystem — and share how architecture, art, and investment are reshaping where and how care happens. You can hear more from Sunand, Kieron and Louisa — along with hundreds of international speakers — at the European Healthcare Design Congress, Exhibition and Awards, held at the Royal College of Physicians in London. Register now at europeanhealthcaredesign.eu [http://europeanhealthcaredesign.eu/]. This episode is supported by our sponsor, Art in Site, a design studio transforming healthcare environments through integrated art, interiors, and wayfinding. Visit artinsite.co.uk [http://artinsite.co.uk/] to learn more. Image credit: Ludwig Guttmann Health & Wellbeing Centre, courtesy of Art in Site. The European Healthcare Design podcast is produced by Urban Podcasts. [http://urbanpodcasts.co.uk/]