That’s why Bryden Wood likes the term.

On a more personal note, he enjoys the ability to put music on.‘Everywhere else, I have to take my own box because they don’t have sound,’ he says, ‘so that’s quite nice.’.

Maswiken also talks about the benefits of the lighting flexibility, with the ability to dim the lights or increase lumination, which he says provides options depending on the type of surgery being conducted.‘Particularly if you’re doing laparoscopic work,’ he says, ‘you might need to dim the light a bit to give the surgeon a better view of the images, so in that way it works very well.’ He also speaks about how lucky he feels to have windows in some of the theatres.It’s quite an advantage,’ he says, ‘Because, just imagine, I’ve been in theatres all day and it helps at times, just to be able to reconnect a bit with the outside.’.

This theme of bringing a sense of the outside into the internal hospital space is another picked up by multiple staff members.‘I think for the patients on the ward the nice thing is that all of our bedrooms have their own windows that look out to an internal courtyard,’ says Highton.

‘So they all have a natural element to them.

They’re not looking out into an industrial unit or to another wall… The atrium is very large.Everything we’ve done in Creative Technologies has its basis in DfMA, and that, in turn, has shaped the thinking behind how the team is set up, and how we work.. As a team, our design automation work weaves together four threads that run through and connect everything we do.

They’re not linear, and they’re not steps in a process.They’re continuous and reflexive.

The relationships are not fixed, they’re knitted together in different ways across time so they’re strengthened by each other and able to hold themselves, to resist tension.– we look for the patterns that describe how design systems and processes work and we turn them into machine-readable logics and rules.