Nutrigeno2017
Research By Design, Healthcare, Scenario Thinking, Food Design,
What will the patient food supply be in the hospital of the future? The
Western hospital has a long, evolutionary history shaped by philosophical,
religious and scientific insights. Its treatments, professions, architecture
have drastically changed treating food supply and diets as essential or
irrelevant at times. The project sets food into the context of modern high-tech
medicine and discusses new possibilities of supply based on current insights
into a patient’s convalescence improved through dietary treatment rather than
further medication.
In doing so, the poles of atmosphere, food, and self-motivation were analyzed
and newly designed. Insights were gained through an internship in the field of
care, visits to the Klinikum Braunschweig and literature research about the
origin, opportunities and deficiencies of the hospital food supply. After an
extended period of time of ever more diverging medical disciplines and the architectural
separation of the hospital body into sub-departments the hyper quantification
and individualization of the body and its treatment offer the opportunity of
hyper specified diets.
