HOSPITAbLe

This research explores the implications of a growing shift of healthcare from what has previously resided within the domain of the hospital to the private space of the home. The excepted notions of these spaces bring together very different practices and environments and the inexorable geographical shift in care (to the home) has potential impact on our physical and emotional relationship with the symbolic meaning of home. The outcome of this research, a collection of 20 artefacts (furniture) not only postulates what the new objects may be that facilitate and support this shift in care but how representation and adaption of familiar objects may have a duality in the home that reflects the hybridity of its evolving form and developing function.