Updated 22 3 2014
This is a short summary of books on arts & health from Glasgow and Scotland that I’m aware of and have on a shelf. Any reminders and recommendations happily received. Artists and organisations try to produce books of these projects because firstly they are participatory and durational so sometimes the book is the only tangible outcome, but secondly they are not generally visible to the public beyond immediate communities hosting the projects, so this is the only means of showing what happened and why it mattered.
There have been several books produced to document arts projects in new healthcare buildings in Glasgow. These join the books produced by Art in Hospital highlighting their long term work with patients. Also included in this provisional bibliography are other books of Scottish projects.
Space to Heal: Humanity in Healthcare Design. (2009) is published by Reiach and Hall Architects…
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