OMA/ Reinier de Graaf’s Hospital of the future premieres at Matadero Madrid Centre for contemporary creation
The Hospital of the Future, a 12-minute short film produced by OMA / Reinier de Graaf, has been released as part of the exhibition Twelve Cautionary Urban Tales at Matadero Madrid Centre for Contemporary Creation.
The Hospital of the Future is a visual manifesto that questions the prevailing conventions in the field of healthcare design, not only in terms of how hospitals are built but also why they are built the way they are built. It investigates the role that disease has played in shaping cities and concludes with a speculative exploration into the future of healthcare design.
Reinier de Graaf, OMA Partner: “It is necessary to provide the hospital with a new definition. Our knowledge about the institution is becoming ever more developed, yet we seem further away than ever from imagining the right type of building for it. In exploring and visualizing a number of speculative futures, this short film hopes to offer a small contribution.”
Ethel Baraona Pohl, curator of the exhibition: “The Hospital of the Future is a precious addition to the Twelve Cautionary Urban Tales exhibition. Instead of trying to give answers, it poses vital questions about the future of the city in terms of health, economy, space, and automation.”
The film emerges from a research project led by Reinier de Graaf together with Hans Larsson and Alex Retegan on the future of healthcare, which started in 2019.
The Hospital of the Future will be on display in the Twelve Cautionary Urban Tales exhibition until January 31.
The film was produced with the support of Matadero Madrid Centre for Contemporary Creation.
More information on the project can be found here.