Guiding dots

Abstract

The project is about creating a better experience for younger children when they come visit the Queen Silvia Children’s Hospital and to help them understand and feel safer in an environment or situation that they are not in charge of themselves. This project is limited to the entrance of Queen Silvia Children’s Hospital and the surrounding area of Östra hospital in Gothenburg. The basis of this project was mainly my own experiences while growing up and observations of how children act and move in the area and in the entrance room. The project resulted in translated signs into pictograms that works as a way finding system in the building and also as a signal to prepare the child for what department of the hospital they are entering. It also resulted in a way finding system on the outside area of Östra hospital that makes it easier to find the way to Queen Silvia Children’s Hospital and also connects the outside with the inside of the hospital. The way finding system and the new pictograms are supposed to give the child a better experience and more control of their situation but also to make it easier for the parents finding their way, an effective flow of information is an elementary condition for the visit to be as effective and pleasant as possible, with comfortable parents you get a comfortable child.