A decision-making tool for hospital leadership to improve patient experience, staff wellbeing, and treatment environments—based on evidence and lived experience.
Hospitals operate with clinical precision—structured around efficiency, technology, and control.
But the lived experience within these environments is often marked by uncertainty, waiting, and emotional strain. In many cases mental wellbeing plays a critical role in this context—it affects how patients respond to treatment, recover, and navigate their situation.
At the same time, hospitals are not only super efficient workplaces. They are settings for some of life’s most critical moments: the illness or loss of a loved one, or the beginning of a new life!
The Atmospheric Gap is the distance between:
The physical environment is a result of the lived health cultures on the departments in the hospitals. Hence bringing new eyes in, reveal new opportunities for enriched cultural transformations in the departments.
Our work spans multiple healthcare contexts—from palliative care and urology to maternity, emergency care, and elder care—each defined by unique patient journeys and complex sensory, existential, and clinical demands.
Translate gaps into design opportunities:
FASE 1: Mapping lived experience
Mapping lived experience
We explore how hospital environments are experienced in practice—following patients, relatives, and staff through their journey to understand emotional, sensory, and spatial conditions over time.
FASE 2: Identifying Atmospheric Gaps
FASE 2: Identifying Atmospheric Gaps
We help reveal the department’s key synergy opportunities across art and healthcare.
We also help reveal where hospital environment creates stress, confusion, or emotional and existential strain.
This include localize atmospheric zones of care:
FASE 3: Opportunity Mapping
Opportunity Mapping
We help clients define targeted design and art actions that improve experience and support ‘act of care’ and ‘act of treatment’ – without disrupting clinical workflows.
We help you translate gaps into design opportunities:
Fase 4: Strategic Recommendations
Atmospheric Gap Audit Report
The Atmospharic Gap Audit is a decision-making tool for hospital leadership to improve patient experience, staff wellbeing, and treatment environments—based on evidence and lived experience.
The Atmospheric Gap Audit provides a structured approach to understanding how healthcare environments are experienced in practice—and where they can be improved.
By combining clinical insight, patient narratives, and spatial analysis, the audit reveals hidden gaps between system performance and human experience, and translates them into targeted design interventions.
Explore how each phase contributes to creating environments that support care, treatment, and recovery – not limited to temporal effects with negative side effects but working 24/7 with side effects such as improve work environments and improved innovation.
“It is not exactly the presence of a thing but rather the absence of it that becomes the cause and impulse for creative motivation”
Alexander Archipenko, Ukrainsk skulptør
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As specialists in art-integrated healthcare design, we create professional sensory solutions that support patients, families, and professionals alike in a clinical environment.
We live the relation between health & art: Together, we transform care spaces into environments that truly heal and inspire. We look forward to shaping your next visionary project with you.
“Cure Sometimes, Treat Often, Comfort Always.”
Hippocrates 400 BC
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