Abstract
Designing services for care for a psychiatric precinct within the context of a major hospital development project is challenging. This paper reports on research that contributes to contemporary discourse on the interconnections between service design and infrastructures of healthcare. This is what Bitner (1992) named as a ‘servicescape’-the integrated, multidisciplinary, physical, sensorial and experiential sites of care provision. Between 2016-2018 the authors undertook a design anthropology evaluation that identified the experiences of situated service provision by people within a psychiatric precinct located within a regional hospital. In this discussion we identify some of the insights from this project.
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | ServDes.2020 – Tensions, Paradoxes, Plurality |
Editors | Yoko Akama, Liam Fennessy, Sara Harrington, Anna Farago |
Place of Publication | Linköping, Sweden |
Publisher | Linkoping University Electronic Press |
Pages | 277-287 |
Number of pages | 11 |
ISBN (Print) | 978-91-7929-779-4 |
Publication status | Published - 2020 |
Event | ServDes.2020: Tensions / Paradoxes / Plurality - RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia Duration: 2 Feb 2021 → 5 Feb 2021 https://www.servdes2020.org/ |
Conference
Conference | ServDes.2020 |
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Country | Australia |
City | Melbourne |
Period | 2/02/21 → 5/02/21 |
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Keywords
- psychiatric services
- co-located healthcare
- maintenance-led designing
- design anthropology