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HKU reseachers and students create momentum
HKU sees an important role for our researchers and students in tackling the challenges in the healthcare sector and in general wellbeing. Artists and designers are particularly suited to question the current systems, bring stagnant processes back in motion, and imagine alternatives for the future. They can perceive from a completely different angle, not limited by the ingrained assumptions, across the various disciplines, and come up with new ideas.Meaningful experiences that improve wellbeing
Such contributions can take various forms: an app that that makes children with an illness more mentally resilient, a robot that can have a chat with Alzheimer’s patients, or a personal work of art that gives the terminally ill creator a sense of purpose again. The purpose of such projects is not to find a recipe that solves all illness, but to create meaningful experiences that make people feel better. And to learn from the cooperation about the various roles and positions involved in designing a healthy and caring society.
Student artworks and educational projects
HKU applies art in the search for solutions for societal challenges. Students at all HKU schools are encouraged to work within the three so-called guiding lights, one of them being Healthcare and Wellbeing. For example, students give shape to their own and other’s physical and mental experiences, develop tools that improve communication between patients and relatives or healthcare professionals, or work in co-creation with clients and patients in a neighbourhood, or with the residents of care homes.
In exhbitions such as Do We Care and the Future Health Expo, works of our students are displayed to draw attention to this theme. Below you see a selection from the rich collection of student works and educational projects in the field of healthcare and wellbeing.