VR Morgan Stanley Garden

-Project: Virtual Reality Garden based on the Morgan Stanley Garden at G.O.S.H. Primarily for patients in Isolation, although can be watched by anyone

-Idea: The patient is sitting in the Morgan Stanley Garden, which comes alive in VR. For the duration of the experience, animals deliver reassuring and thoughtful letters that have been written by former patients. Designed for patients on the ward, who do not have the opportunity to leave their room.

Motivation: By allowing the patients in Isolation to experience the Morgan Stanley Garden whilst wearing the Virtual Reality headset, they are able to sit in a peaceful and relaxing environment that allows them to escape the enclosed room they are living in for a while, and be “transported” to this new place (The Garden). Having been a patient on isolated wards, I have experienced not being able to go outside of the hospital room and the Hospital itself. Therefore, bringing the Garden to them through virtual reality would surpass the issue of being in isolation, albeit for short while.