Industrial designers have turned imaging departments at 27 children’s hospitals into miniature theme parks.
GE Healthcare industrial designers Erik Kemper and Doug Dietz helped develop the idea of transforming the often-frightening process of MRI and CT scans into an adventure for children.
The sight of a terrified little girl about to have an MRI scan gave Dietz a different perspective on his work.
“I had just finished designing a big MR scanner,” Dietz, the creator of the MR Adventure Discovery Series explained during a TED talk.
“A young patient was coming into the MR room to be scanned. I see this young family coming down the hallway and I can tell as they get closer that the little girl is weeping. As they get even closer to me, I notice the father leans down and just goes ‘remember we talked about this, you can be brave.’
As they walked into the MR suite, Dietz had the chance to see the room through the girl’s eyes for the first time.
“Everything was kind of like, beige” he said, describing what he calls…
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