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CREATIVE CONSULTANCY X EXPERIENCE DESIGN
EXPLORING HUMAN AND MORE-THAN-HUMAN IMAGINATION AT THE INTERSECTION OF ART AND TECHNOLOGY
BY LAURA COPSEY AND SARAH YARDLEY
The Map: Islands of Stability
John Donne wrote, “No man is an island” - we are all connected by proximity, shared resources, the sea and the air… In Rewilding Healthcare, we used "island thinking" to reflect on care: as individuals, we are distinct but linked by shared values and needs.
This map emerged through workshop activities where participants designed metaphorical islands representing the support, communication and community they needed in a vast and often uncertain ocean of experience. Reflecting on the conversation, Laura then created a cyanotype collage map, borrowing words and themes from the discussion that represent the participants' original islands.
The Porthole
Who would cut a hole in the side of a boat? Portholes have become important offering visibility, light and perspective. This object symbolises the need to take risks. In healthcare, as in sailing and in life, the safest option isn’t always the best. Positive risk taking is essential for access, for agency, for change.
Rewilding healthcare is a creative collaboration between artist Laura Copsey and Sarah Yardley, a researcher and palliative medicine consultant at UCL. Working with people who have professional and/or personal experience of serious mental or physical illness we became crew during creative workshops held with Cody Dock, a community hub regenerating the River Lea’s waterways.
Using visual storytelling and conversation as methods, we aimed to reimagine healthcare as an archipelago where together we navigate islands to rethink risk, safety and choice in healthcare to reframe experiences. The resulting art work - an installation, resembling a waiting room as a boat shed of hacked objects of safety at sea, layered with new meaning and narrative, informed by the group.
The Map: Islands of Stability
John Donne wrote, “No man is an island” - we are all connected by proximity, shared resources, the sea and the air… In Rewilding Healthcare, we used "island thinking" to reflect on care: as individuals, we are distinct but linked by shared values and needs.
This map emerged through workshop activities where participants designed metaphorical islands representing the support, communication and community they needed in a vast and often uncertain ocean of experience. Reflecting on the conversation, Laura then created a cyanotype collage map, borrowing words and themes from the discussion that represent the participants' original islands.
The Porthole
Who would cut a hole in the side of a boat? Portholes have become important offering visibility, light and perspective. This object symbolises the need to take risks. In healthcare, as in sailing and in life, the safest option isn’t always the best. Positive risk taking is essential for access, for agency, for change.
Rewilding healthcare is a creative collaboration between artist Laura Copsey and Sarah Yardley, a researcher and palliative medicine consultant at UCL. Working with people who have professional and/or personal experience of serious mental or physical illness we became crew during creative workshops held with Cody Dock, a community hub regenerating the River Lea’s waterways.
Using visual storytelling and conversation as methods, we aimed to reimagine healthcare as an archipelago where together we navigate islands to rethink risk, safety and choice in healthcare to reframe experiences. The resulting art work - an installation, resembling a waiting room as a boat shed of hacked objects of safety at sea, layered with new meaning and narrative, informed by the group.
Laura Copsey is a London-based artist and arts educator. With a background in occupational therapy, illustration and music, she creates interdisciplinary and collaborative works, live experiences, expeditions and socially engaged projects. Laura's practice is inspired by heritage, geo-poetics and hydrofiction often in relation to particular places or bodies of water incorporating objects, experimental photography, moving image, collage and sound.
Sarah Yardley is a palliative medicine consultant and mixed methods researcher working in the Marie Curie Palliative Care Research Department, Division of Psychiatry, University College London. Her story-based research focuses on how people engage in the daily, often hidden, work of healthcare. She aims to include those who feel they “don’t fit” in healthcare systems, advocating for multi-voiced understandings that prompt positive change and working with communities to explore what matters most when someone has a serious illness.
BY LAURA COPSEY AND SARAH YARDLEY
The Map: Islands of Stability
John Donne wrote, “No man is an island” - we are all connected by proximity, shared resources, the sea and the air… In Rewilding Healthcare, we used "island thinking" to reflect on care: as individuals, we are distinct but linked by shared values and needs.
This map emerged through workshop activities where participants designed metaphorical islands representing the support, communication and community they needed in a vast and often uncertain ocean of experience. Reflecting on the conversation, Laura then created a cyanotype collage map, borrowing words and themes from the discussion that represent the participants' original islands.
The Porthole
Who would cut a hole in the side of a boat? Portholes have become important offering visibility, light and perspective. This object symbolises the need to take risks. In healthcare, as in sailing and in life, the safest option isn’t always the best. Positive risk taking is essential for access, for agency, for change.
Rewilding healthcare is a creative collaboration between artist Laura Copsey and Sarah Yardley, a researcher and palliative medicine consultant at UCL. Working with people who have professional and/or personal experience of serious mental or physical illness we became crew during creative workshops held with Cody Dock, a community hub regenerating the River Lea’s waterways.
Using visual storytelling and conversation as methods, we aimed to reimagine healthcare as an archipelago where together we navigate islands to rethink risk, safety and choice in healthcare to reframe experiences. The resulting art work - an installation, resembling a waiting room as a boat shed of hacked objects of safety at sea, layered with new meaning and narrative, informed by the group.
The Map: Islands of Stability
John Donne wrote, “No man is an island” - we are all connected by proximity, shared resources, the sea and the air… In Rewilding Healthcare, we used "island thinking" to reflect on care: as individuals, we are distinct but linked by shared values and needs.
This map emerged through workshop activities where participants designed metaphorical islands representing the support, communication and community they needed in a vast and often uncertain ocean of experience. Reflecting on the conversation, Laura then created a cyanotype collage map, borrowing words and themes from the discussion that represent the participants' original islands.
The Porthole
Who would cut a hole in the side of a boat? Portholes have become important offering visibility, light and perspective. This object symbolises the need to take risks. In healthcare, as in sailing and in life, the safest option isn’t always the best. Positive risk taking is essential for access, for agency, for change.
Rewilding healthcare is a creative collaboration between artist Laura Copsey and Sarah Yardley, a researcher and palliative medicine consultant at UCL. Working with people who have professional and/or personal experience of serious mental or physical illness we became crew during creative workshops held with Cody Dock, a community hub regenerating the River Lea’s waterways.
Using visual storytelling and conversation as methods, we aimed to reimagine healthcare as an archipelago where together we navigate islands to rethink risk, safety and choice in healthcare to reframe experiences. The resulting art work - an installation, resembling a waiting room as a boat shed of hacked objects of safety at sea, layered with new meaning and narrative, informed by the group.
Laura Copsey is a London-based artist and arts educator. With a background in occupational therapy, illustration and music, she creates interdisciplinary and collaborative works, live experiences, expeditions and socially engaged projects. Laura's practice is inspired by heritage, geo-poetics and hydrofiction often in relation to particular places or bodies of water incorporating objects, experimental photography, moving image, collage and sound.
Sarah Yardley is a palliative medicine consultant and mixed methods researcher working in the Marie Curie Palliative Care Research Department, Division of Psychiatry, University College London. Her story-based research focuses on how people engage in the daily, often hidden, work of healthcare. She aims to include those who feel they “don’t fit” in healthcare systems, advocating for multi-voiced understandings that prompt positive change and working with communities to explore what matters most when someone has a serious illness.
BY LAURA COPSEY AND SARAH YARDLEY
The Map: Islands of Stability
John Donne wrote, “No man is an island” - we are all connected by proximity, shared resources, the sea and the air… In Rewilding Healthcare, we used "island thinking" to reflect on care: as individuals, we are distinct but linked by shared values and needs.
This map emerged through workshop activities where participants designed metaphorical islands representing the support, communication and community they needed in a vast and often uncertain ocean of experience. Reflecting on the conversation, Laura then created a cyanotype collage map, borrowing words and themes from the discussion that represent the participants' original islands.
The Porthole
Who would cut a hole in the side of a boat? Portholes have become important offering visibility, light and perspective. This object symbolises the need to take risks. In healthcare, as in sailing and in life, the safest option isn’t always the best. Positive risk taking is essential for access, for agency, for change.
Rewilding healthcare is a creative collaboration between artist Laura Copsey and Sarah Yardley, a researcher and palliative medicine consultant at UCL. Working with people who have professional and/or personal experience of serious mental or physical illness we became crew during creative workshops held with Cody Dock, a community hub regenerating the River Lea’s waterways.
Using visual storytelling and conversation as methods, we aimed to reimagine healthcare as an archipelago where together we navigate islands to rethink risk, safety and choice in healthcare to reframe experiences. The resulting art work - an installation, resembling a waiting room as a boat shed of hacked objects of safety at sea, layered with new meaning and narrative, informed by the group.
The Map: Islands of Stability
John Donne wrote, “No man is an island” - we are all connected by proximity, shared resources, the sea and the air… In Rewilding Healthcare, we used "island thinking" to reflect on care: as individuals, we are distinct but linked by shared values and needs.
This map emerged through workshop activities where participants designed metaphorical islands representing the support, communication and community they needed in a vast and often uncertain ocean of experience. Reflecting on the conversation, Laura then created a cyanotype collage map, borrowing words and themes from the discussion that represent the participants' original islands.
The Porthole
Who would cut a hole in the side of a boat? Portholes have become important offering visibility, light and perspective. This object symbolises the need to take risks. In healthcare, as in sailing and in life, the safest option isn’t always the best. Positive risk taking is essential for access, for agency, for change.
Rewilding healthcare is a creative collaboration between artist Laura Copsey and Sarah Yardley, a researcher and palliative medicine consultant at UCL. Working with people who have professional and/or personal experience of serious mental or physical illness we became crew during creative workshops held with Cody Dock, a community hub regenerating the River Lea’s waterways.
Using visual storytelling and conversation as methods, we aimed to reimagine healthcare as an archipelago where together we navigate islands to rethink risk, safety and choice in healthcare to reframe experiences. The resulting art work - an installation, resembling a waiting room as a boat shed of hacked objects of safety at sea, layered with new meaning and narrative, informed by the group.
Laura Copsey is a London-based artist and arts educator. With a background in occupational therapy, illustration and music, she creates interdisciplinary and collaborative works, live experiences, expeditions and socially engaged projects. Laura's practice is inspired by heritage, geo-poetics and hydrofiction often in relation to particular places or bodies of water incorporating objects, experimental photography, moving image, collage and sound.
Sarah Yardley is a palliative medicine consultant and mixed methods researcher working in the Marie Curie Palliative Care Research Department, Division of Psychiatry, University College London. Her story-based research focuses on how people engage in the daily, often hidden, work of healthcare. She aims to include those who feel they “don’t fit” in healthcare systems, advocating for multi-voiced understandings that prompt positive change and working with communities to explore what matters most when someone has a serious illness.
BY LAURA COPSEY AND SARAH YARDLEY
The Map: Islands of Stability
John Donne wrote, “No man is an island” - we are all connected by proximity, shared resources, the sea and the air… In Rewilding Healthcare, we used "island thinking" to reflect on care: as individuals, we are distinct but linked by shared values and needs.
This map emerged through workshop activities where participants designed metaphorical islands representing the support, communication and community they needed in a vast and often uncertain ocean of experience. Reflecting on the conversation, Laura then created a cyanotype collage map, borrowing words and themes from the discussion that represent the participants' original islands.
The Porthole
Who would cut a hole in the side of a boat? Portholes have become important offering visibility, light and perspective. This object symbolises the need to take risks. In healthcare, as in sailing and in life, the safest option isn’t always the best. Positive risk taking is essential for access, for agency, for change.
Rewilding healthcare is a creative collaboration between artist Laura Copsey and Sarah Yardley, a researcher and palliative medicine consultant at UCL. Working with people who have professional and/or personal experience of serious mental or physical illness we became crew during creative workshops held with Cody Dock, a community hub regenerating the River Lea’s waterways.
Using visual storytelling and conversation as methods, we aimed to reimagine healthcare as an archipelago where together we navigate islands to rethink risk, safety and choice in healthcare to reframe experiences. The resulting art work - an installation, resembling a waiting room as a boat shed of hacked objects of safety at sea, layered with new meaning and narrative, informed by the group.
The Map: Islands of Stability
John Donne wrote, “No man is an island” - we are all connected by proximity, shared resources, the sea and the air… In Rewilding Healthcare, we used "island thinking" to reflect on care: as individuals, we are distinct but linked by shared values and needs.
This map emerged through workshop activities where participants designed metaphorical islands representing the support, communication and community they needed in a vast and often uncertain ocean of experience. Reflecting on the conversation, Laura then created a cyanotype collage map, borrowing words and themes from the discussion that represent the participants' original islands.
The Porthole
Who would cut a hole in the side of a boat? Portholes have become important offering visibility, light and perspective. This object symbolises the need to take risks. In healthcare, as in sailing and in life, the safest option isn’t always the best. Positive risk taking is essential for access, for agency, for change.
Rewilding healthcare is a creative collaboration between artist Laura Copsey and Sarah Yardley, a researcher and palliative medicine consultant at UCL. Working with people who have professional and/or personal experience of serious mental or physical illness we became crew during creative workshops held with Cody Dock, a community hub regenerating the River Lea’s waterways.
Using visual storytelling and conversation as methods, we aimed to reimagine healthcare as an archipelago where together we navigate islands to rethink risk, safety and choice in healthcare to reframe experiences. The resulting art work - an installation, resembling a waiting room as a boat shed of hacked objects of safety at sea, layered with new meaning and narrative, informed by the group.
Laura Copsey is a London-based artist and arts educator. With a background in occupational therapy, illustration and music, she creates interdisciplinary and collaborative works, live experiences, expeditions and socially engaged projects. Laura's practice is inspired by heritage, geo-poetics and hydrofiction often in relation to particular places or bodies of water incorporating objects, experimental photography, moving image, collage and sound.
Sarah Yardley is a palliative medicine consultant and mixed methods researcher working in the Marie Curie Palliative Care Research Department, Division of Psychiatry, University College London. Her story-based research focuses on how people engage in the daily, often hidden, work of healthcare. She aims to include those who feel they “don’t fit” in healthcare systems, advocating for multi-voiced understandings that prompt positive change and working with communities to explore what matters most when someone has a serious illness.