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The Baird Family Hospital Courtyards - Joseph Hillier

Stakeholder Engagement

Joseph Hillier has been commissioned to develop and design 6 Courtyards in the new NHSG facility The Baird Family Hospital. Joseph specialises in making sculptures of humans and abstract forms that respond to the natural and scientific worlds.
- Your voice and thoughts are central to the creation of the designs, and we’d like to understand how certain places make you feel. Your feedback will inform the design process.
- We don’t ask for any personal details, so it won’t be attributed to you personally at any point, stored or shared wider than the artist and Grampian Hospitals Art Trust team. All feedback is anonymous.
There are only 16 questions to answer and we encourage you to leave any comments you feel relevant. Thank you for taking the time to share your thoughts.
1.I am...
2.Ward/dept
3.Please take a moment to close your eyes and imagine a landscape you love, this may be real or imagined. Once you have taken a minute or two to try and visualise this view in your mind’s eye, please take a few moments to tell me about this place you might like to retreat to.

Does the place have a name?
4.Can you describe it?
5.Can you draw it?
6.What is it about that place you like the most?
7.Who lives there if anyone?
8.What objects and things can you see there?
9.What materials are they made of?
10.If there are plants what are they?
11.If there is water, what is it?
12.What does the ground feel like in this place?
13.Where would you sit? On anything?
14.What things do you see that are animal?
15.What things do you see that are mineral?
16.What things do you see that are vegetable?