Human dimension of healthcare exhibition

This is one of the best and most valuable projects within the faculty. There isn’t anything quite like this, it provides a unique opportunity for our students to explore themselves and their surroundings and for all staff and students to share a platform together (exhibition book feedback)

11. Sophia Geaney - Getting Ready.docx

15. Kathleen Wenaden 3 poems.docx

3. CARRO - Letter to the Motherland.docx

5 Online multimedia exhibits

meae 1.mov

1. maˈtʼuww by Jeremy Chan

Medical student

𓌃𓂧𓅱𓏛𓏥 (maˈtʼuww) is Middle Egyptian for 'written scripts'. Having lingistics and art as a hobby, I wanted to use this project to show how the majority of the written scripts today and in the past are related and have roots in Egyptian hieroglyphs. Here I am portraying an aspect of this ambitious project of mine.

On this drawing depicting the African, Asian and European continents, I have strung a series of maps depicting areas where these related scripts were used, as well as the a written sample of these scripts. Although these were not arranged chronologically, I wanted to portray how writing has transformed as one torch is passed on from one to another across these vast lands. They started off as the same but give service to peoples of different origins, creeds, and beliefs, who cultured them into something unique.

Next time when you see Bengali at Whitechapel Station, know that it is a very distant cousin to the Latin script we know by heart.

2. Salty Skies by Pedro - Click here to listen

Staff

My favourite thing about playing an instrument is how much variability you can get out of it. Growing up, taking exams, the goal was to recreate a piece of music exactly as it was written down for points. In typical human rebellious fashion, I don't write down what I compose, and no two playings are ever the same, in style or notes. This recording is a snapshot of what this piece of music sounded like on a Sunday afternoon.

3. Winter Solistice by Mythili - Click here to listen

Doctor and Senior Clinical Lecturer

‘Winter Solstice’ was written during a period of huge change for me. I had just started anaesthetic training and was shedding my former identity of a foundation year doctor. I was walking by the river Thames on my birthday day in December, feeling very grateful for this new chapter in my life… but felt the tinge of uncertainty that comes with change and growth. Whilst I was on my walk reflecting on this chapter, the melody popped into my head. I came home and started sketching it out on the piano. Being born a winter baby, metamorphosis and inspiration often hits me around December, even whilst the rest of the world feels as though it is hibernating. Every time I play this piece, I remember the feelings of trepidation, excitement and the cool crisp air of that winter walk by the river.

To speak of flourishing helps to move the wellbeing conversation beyond the idea of resilience and toughing it out alone, towards something more interpersonal and ecological, connecting our inner lives with the ebb and flow of loss and renewal, death and growth. Flourishing is about connection with our values, with purpose and meaning (Aristotle’s eudaimonia), engaging with compassion with our own humanity and that of others. For more on flourishing click here

Louise Younie, Clinical Reader in Medical Education

4. Flourishing in medicine - film by Dimple Devadas, comissioned by Louise Younie

Featuring medical students:

Felicity smith
Alia Razman
Elle Tallgren

Also featuring Louise's daughter Annika Wickson's voice and rock art