Visual Wall

Hanieh Kavehei

How can we produce a healing environment in the psychiatry ward?

Accurate and flexible relationships between many elements such as space, technology, patients, and practices in a hospital can create a healing environment. In the psychiatry ward, occupational therapy is an effective part of generating the healing environment. Occupational therapists encourage psychiatric patients to create art using different tools. Painting is one of the patients’ favorite practices, since it helps to express themselves and reduce their anxiety. “Visual wall” is an innovative method of painting through technology. In this prototype, patients are able to paint on the canvas with their hand motion.

2016

Leap motion, canvas, string, projector

72 x 60 in.