ABSTRACT
This chapter reflects upon a workshop in which participants were asked to design a lift using research data in various formats on hospital patients' spatial experience in motion. It analyses the workshop's design outcome and design process, paying specific attention to the affordances of different information formats. The workshop started with an initial brainstorm session focusing on the meaning of being a patient and being wheeled through the hospital. Subsequently, participants were asked to design a lift on the route from the ward to the operation room (OR), based on specific inputs. The design-brief team became aware of their own experience through the brainstorm; and described it as a primary layer, not directly related to the design assignment, but essential for their design. The resulting design ideas offer important insights into the relationship between space and motion. The workshop findings illuminate the ways in which design outcomes emerge from the connections enabled by representations of different information formats.
