Across the world, delivery rooms are still primarily designed as functional clinical spaces. Yet,
research and practice show that the birth environment has a profound impact on outcomes for
both families and healthcare professionals. The next frontier in maternity care is not only medical
excellence, but sensory excellence.
Enter the Sensory Delivery Room — a groundbreaking healthcare-integrated design solution by
Studio Poesis, where art, science, and clinical practice converge.
These tailored environments act as clinical sensory instruments, enabling healthcare professionals
to shape the atmosphare in the space.
The spaces stimulate the ‘act of treatment’ by:
• Lowering birth anxiety and promoting natural birth
• Positive distractions and pain relief
The spaces stimulate the ‘act of care’ by:
• Improve the connection between health professionals and couple
• Softening the clinical and creating a welcoming atmosphere
• Individualised Atmosphares improve empoverment.
• Supporting circadian rhythms and patient performance
• Support brestfeeding startup practice
• Strengthening social relations between staff and family
• Supporting family autonomy and feeling of ownership
• Providing a celebrational space for birthday rituals
• Supporting sacred spaces and spirituality, e.g., for stillborn
• Fostering community building and local self-understanding
• Enhancing local brand identity and cultural diversity
• Enhancing staff recruitment and retention
• Boosting innovation within the department
The spaces stimulate the ‘Healthcare culture’ by:
• Improving working environments for all staffz
• Suppoprt midwifes professionalism
• Humanizing birth culture on hospitals
• Gives a sense of pride and empoverment
These environments have a lot of yet undiscovered potentials, and we seek to expand our knowledge further on how these spaces can be an instrument to support the care and treatment in future collaborations.
No matter where you are in your journey toward sensory birth environments, Studio Poesis supports you every step of the way. Whether you are beginning to explore how sensory design can elevate your maternity ward, looking to integrate specific elements into existing delivery rooms, or ready to implement a fully tailored solution, we ensure a seamless process from concept to realization. Our end-to-end approach covers everything from strategic consultation, stakeholder engagement, and interdisciplinary co-design to implementation, training, and long-term evaluation. With our expertise, research, and proven hospital collaborations, we enable you to fast-track the transition toward world-class sensory delivery rooms that strengthen care, improve outcomes, and position your hospital as a leader in patient-centered innovation.
Fase 1: Our services to start your Sensorial Design journey with a robust strategy.
Our consultants support you in strategic matters and create with you a strong vision of the project
Special needs assesment
Together with hospital staff and stakeholders, we identify the specific needs, ambitions, and challenges of your project. This collaborative process ensures that the Sensory Design strategy is tailored to your context and builds on a shared vision.
Goal:
To align project strategy with the client’s unique needs and priorities.
Output:
A clear needs assessment and vision document as the foundation for next steps.
Inspirational use-case discovery workshops
We collect and synthesize state-of-the-art knowledge to ground the project in a strong evidence-based design practice. Through inspirational case studies, discovery workshops, and potential site visits, we explore how humanising birth environments can stimulate and impact healthcare practice.
Goal:
To provide a scientific, evidence-based foundation and shared inspiration for the project.
Output:
A curated knowledge base, workshop insights, and optional site-visit experiences.
Fase 2: Our services for your first steps towards Sensory Delivery room Design
Our team helps you develop concrete tailored concept and prepare value demonstrations.
Tailored interior proposal of Sensory delivery rooms
We provide comprehensive interior and lighting design for Sensory Delivery Rooms, including recommendations on color schemes, materials, and furniture selection. Our service also covers technical specifications, development of timetables, budgeting, and screening of technical space requirements to ensure a fully integrated and functional environment.
Goal:
To create a carefully designed, functional, and aesthetically Sensory Delivery Room tailored to the needs of staff and families.
Output:
A complete interior proposal with design, technical specifications, and implementation plan ready for execution.
Sensory Artwork: Proposal
We develop curated Sensory Artwork tailored to the local nature and culture, including sensorial and rituals artworks and the selection of an expert art team. Each proposal ensures the artwork aligns with the clinical environment while enhancing patient experience through well-designed sensory Art-works.
Goal:
To create a detailed guiding document for the development and implementation of Interdiciplinary Sensory Artworks.
Output:
A sketch proposal with illustrations, descriptions, technical specifications, budget, and timeline for tailored Sensory Artwork production.
Fase 3: Our artists help you craft healing atmosphares, that support the ‘act of care’ and ‘act of treatment’.
Work with our award winning professional artists crafting Tailored Sensorial Artworks for you.
Mapping the ‘Known” Calming atmosphares in nature
We have created gentle ways of inviting families to share their most cherished childhood memories of nature. These stories become the living seeds that later grow into our sensory artworks.
Goal:
Our goal is to help people feel at home by evoking familiar, calming atmospheres from nature. Through these shared memories, we create a map of soothing natural moods that can guide the design of sensory artworks.
Output:
The process results in a living archive—a map of calming natural atmospheres drawn from personal memories.
Sensory Artworks production Chasing moods
With site-specific maps, the journey begins in local nature. Together with award-winning photographers and composers, we capture its unique spirit in carefully balanced video and sound — professionally graded, composed, and crafted for long-lasting use in a calm birthing environment.
Goal:
To create site-specific calming sensory artworks for birth environments.
Output:
High-quality, enduring audiovisual moods tailored for the birthing experience.
Crafting Ritual Artwork
As a unique artistic offering, we create performance-based ritual artworks designed to stimulate meaningful memories and support hospitals in practicing an aesthetic dimension of care. Developed in collaboration with spiritual leaders, theatre groups, midwives, surgeons, and local families, these works integrate art and ritual into the birthing experience.
Goal:
To cultivate aesthetic rituals and memories that help families celebrate the beauty of birth or process traumatic experiences through an insistence on care as an aesthetic act.
Output:
A bespoke Ritual Artwork, accompanied by accessories and training with midwives.
Sensory Artwork Production for Pain Management
Designed for moments of high-intensity labour, these artworks use carefully composed soundscapes and visuals to support women in managing pain and maintaining focus. Drawing on evidence-based approaches and artistic expertise, we create immersive sensory experiences that provide grounding, rhythm, and calm — offering both distraction from pain and emotional strength during birth.
Goal:
To develop sensory artworks that actively support pain management and resilience during labour.
Output:
Immersive audiovisual tools tailored for high-intensity birth situations, crafted for professional, long-lasting use.
Software & IT development
We have developed an intuitive software solution that puts families and hospital staff in control of the Sensory Delivery Rooms. Using a simple tablet interface, users can fine-tune lighting and sound to create an atmosphere that feels just right for each moment. The system also adapts to natural day rhythms, supporting circadian balance and wellbeing during birth. Seamless integration with existing building control systems ensures the environment is reliable and responsive.
Goal:
To empower families and staff to shape the birth environment, enhancing comfort, wellbeing, and participation in the birthing experience.
Output:
A robust, user-friendly software platform that enables personalized control and comes with ongoing IT support.
Fase 4: Our services to support you during Implementation of Sensorial Deliveryrooms.
Benefit from our 15 years experience of crafting sensorial artworks in the danish healthcare sector.
Installation and Calibration
Rooted in the Danish Design tradition, we believe every detail matters. That’s why we support you all the way through to completion — ensuring thorough quality control and precise calibration of sound, lighting, and all integrations with existing building management systems.
Goal:
To ensure every detail is installed and sensorical calibrated just right.
Output:
Fully calibrated and seamlessly functioning Sensory Delivery Rooms.
Traning with Midwifes and Surgeons
From day one, you can benefit from a more humane birth culture. Every innovation deserves a strong start — that’s why we share more than 10 years of experience with Sensory Delivery Rooms: supporting their use during birth, in preparation for labor, and after the birth.
Goal:
Accelerate adoption of the Sensory Delivery Room as a catalyst for a more humane birth experience.
Output:
An innovative, research-informed, state-of-the-art birth culture.
Documentation and Maintenance
Our projects are built on long-term relationships and trust. That’s why we provide complete documentation — covering artistic productions, software extensions, and ongoing maintenance. All software is developed on standard international control systems to ensure reliability and future compatibility.
Goal:
To empower clients to independently maintain their solutions after purchase.
Output:
Comprehensive technical, artistic, and software documentation.
We are a trusted partner with the expertise, creativity, and commitment to deliver exceptional sensory solutions that transform healthcare environments. As pioneers in the field of art-integrated healthcare design, we bring nearly a decade of proven experience with hospitals, midwives, and clinicians — ensuring every solution is both visionary and clinically relevant.
Our award-winning Sensory Delivery Rooms are internationally recognized for their impact on patient well-being, staff performance, and spatial innovation. Backed by published research, peer-reviewed validation, and close partnerships with leading Danish hospitals, we combine scientific evidence with artistic excellence to deliver tailored environments that set new standards in care.
From strategic consultation and interdisciplinary co-design to implementation and long-term evaluation, our end-to-end approach ensures that your investment results in spaces that are not only functional but also healing, inspiring, and future-ready.
Join the growing number of visionary hospitals embracing Studio Poesis solutions. Contact us today to learn how we can help you shape the next generation of care environments.
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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.
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