Digital oases to create environments that care

Building artworks that distract while creating a sense of wonder and joy, enhances wellbeing and promotes healing.

Using a multidisciplinary and technological palette, Jason Bruges intuitively creates embedded impressions of the natural world within interiors and exteriors of healthcare environments.

Can you create a waterfall that flows all the way through the section of a clinical building? Can animals follow your movement through transitional spaces? Can the use of technology soothe and create a sanctuary?

Multi-sensorial spatial media artworks can have a massive benefit on every space and journey through a facility. Through the development and testing of prototypes, Jason will explore these effects on the observer whether they are a patient, relative or clinician, and will talk about the processes and techniques used in more detail. These works have been exhibited by Jason at Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children and Boston Children’s Hospital, among others.

Key words:

healthy art
blue mind / biophilia
artistic medicine
artistic doses
wonder
digital oases?
inspirational / humanistic
distraction / healing

In summary, imagine walking through a northern European birch forest, with a collection of animals tracking your every movement. A body of animated water creates the focus of an immersive environment through a tactile, haptic, luminous performance-based installation.