What would make this world into a Utopia?

Hospitals that are quiet and supports sleep for restful healing.

Why?

I have been dreaming recently about a hospital designed for sleep. It would be so different, quiet and dark. Soft music by musician Yoko Sen, maybe gentle lights, comfortable beds. Without the blaring alarms, people yelling, being woken up all times of day for testing. You’d still be watched and cared for, but your sleep would be a priority. As a former ICU patient myself and a healthcare design creative who authored the book “Artists Remaking Medicine”, I know sleep is such powerful medicine, it is our fundamental healing process and it is unsupported in hospital settings to the point of more than 1 in 3 hospital patients becoming delirious today. This would be a relatively small thing on its own. However, to me would represent a larger transformation of medical culture. One that puts patient experience over malpractice compliance. One that respects our humanity and centuries of healing practice. That uses technology in innovative new ways. It would be healing. Emily P.

Utopia Machine: Quiet Hospitals, Ellen Harvey, 2024. No. 3 of 100 panels. Acrylic on Alubond panel, 16 x 12 in.