In this ward, the patients are usually aged 65+ and many of them show signs of dementia. They spend around 2 weeks at the hospital recovering from a range of medical issues, and they are mainly from the local area, Whitechapel. The murals would be used as visual guides for orientating in the ward, as a tool for memory and it should help calm the patients. The proposed designs should also have to be dementia friendly, for example this can mean not using reflective surfaces and using contrasting colours.
I was inspired by seeing how people put up their postcards to remind them of their loved ones, I wanted to play on the idea of the ward being surrounded with different postcards and stamps. Relationships are what relate us all, irrelevant to race and age. I wanted to focus on positive memories, and to create an environment of nostalgia.