⚪️🔴🟠🟡🟢🔵🟣⚫️ NEW DIRECTION Ed. No. 92 - LESS IS MORE
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UNCLUTTER
Too muchie of a good thing can end you up in hospital.
I know someone who recently walked into the foyer of a hospital and lost it …angrily so. When faced with so many signs, information desks(3) and other assorted paraphernalia that person exploded. “Too muchie”.
No doubt too that person was anxious about facing an operation.
I have found the health sector one of the contributors to our confusion.
Health is so complicated and yet so important. Such a Mt. Everest of choices and decisions and processes. (I mean have you attempted to complete an online form for admissions for an operation? If you’re a senior good luck.)
My local hospital is St. Vincent’s in Darlinghurst, Sydney. They may well be the top hospital in Australia in terms of their earned reputation. Whether it is their Clinic, Public or Private Hospital, Emergency Department or the Administration I have only ever received a best they can do level of service.
They are excellent and I thank them for that. They are greatly appreciated.
I am though going to give them some advice here.
And I’m fully accepting that they are quite entitled to tell me to mind my own business.
My background and experience is in the field of Corporate Identity which is the study of the behaviours of individuals, groups, corporations, governments, organisations, even countries and why they behave the way they do... and how they reflect this in the way they present themselves to their various publics.
I’m not going to critique health systems and processes here.
I am though going to talk about the way they reflect themselves at the coal face.
Whenever I walk into the cluster of buildings that is St. Vincent’s the thing that overwhelms is all of the art.
Perhaps because I am an artist I notice it more?
I’m sure the Hospital’s motivation here is to help as many artists as they can.
The probability is that most of the works dripping off the walls were gifted from thankful artist patients or generous benefactors but is it helpful to display so much? I don’t believe so. If anything it all adds to an overload of information that visitors and patients even staff are subjected to.
It is certainly not helping the artists by displaying too muchie. The human eye and brain needs space.
A plethora of anything negates any positive benefit with it all becoming an information jungle.
The overload just neuters the benefit.
May I suggest at the least halving the amount of art on the walls and rotating artworks once a year. Yep, this then raises the question of storage space and staff to change the artworks. Why not have an auction and sell most of the artworks? Feed the funds into much needed areas of health care at the Hospital?
I know that St. Vincents recently advertised for a Curator for all of this art. And no I won’t be putting my hat in the ring. My prescription here is an offering in itself.
Generally speaking I’ve been into health professionals practices that bludgeon you to death with the amount of signs, posters, artworks and other gumph on display. It’s all too much. Clear it out. What needs to be there only please.
The sweetest thing yoo can do is take some of it away.
All too muchie of a good thing can make you sick. - Neville ☺︎
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