// Giving Voice to the Patient Experience

Project: Transplant and Life UK

Client: Royal College of Surgeons

Partners: artists, Tim Wainwright and John Wynne, the Hunterian Museum, and C-I

Start: The Royal College of Surgeons were about to close down the Hunterian Museum for five years ready for a move and re-display. They wanted a grand send off and a unique experience placing human voices side by side with their renowned clinical specimen collections.

Journey: Organ transplantation is a technological marvel and an incredibly challenging journey, though even doctors seldom hear the real stories of what it was like to be a donor or recipient. Transplant and Life UK gives voice to the patient experience, through a collection of sensitive and revealing audio-visual portraits. We helped the artists transform these into an immersive multimedia installation across three rooms and created a micro-site digital exhibition - an interactive catalogue and complete record of the project

Transplant and Life UK went on to be part of the first show of works at the new Science Gallery London’s Spare Parts exhibition.

It was also used as a clinician training resource with the Medical Leadership Academy in the UK, Harvard Medical School and the University of NSW in Australia

Destination

Achieving powerful and unexpected outcomes through artistic collaboration.

• Collaborating with artists to record personal experiences and reveal new perspectives in meaningful ways

• Developing a versatile interactive exhibition and digital catalogue that makes the project permanently accessible to the public, as well as clinicians

• Creating work that has a life and meaning beyond the duration of the project

Click Here to explore the Transplant and Life UK Digital Exhibition.