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Horizontal: Politics and Poetics from the Sickbed

Horizontal: Politics and Poetics from the Sickbed

by The Visual and Material Lab | Jul 9, 2026 | Visual & Material

Berliner Medizinhistorisches Museum der Charité, until May 2027 The exhibition Horizontal: Politics and Poetics from the Sickbed explores how perception and our relationship to the world are transformed when the bed becomes the centre of daily life. Bringing...
Tamarin Norwood appears on Medical Humanities podcast ‘The Art of Transgression’.

Tamarin Norwood appears on Medical Humanities podcast ‘The Art of Transgression’.

by The Visual and Material Lab | May 15, 2026 | Visual & Material

Honorary Fellow Tamarin Norwood appeared on the BMJ Medical Humanities podcast episode ‘The Art of Transgression’, which explored art as a tool for breaking through silos and crossing boundaries.  Drawing on her experience as an artist, Norwood suggested that...
Open Letter: Wellcome’s report on ‘Archives, manuscripts and material culture in life, health and wellbeing research’

Open Letter: Wellcome’s report on ‘Archives, manuscripts and material culture in life, health and wellbeing research’

by The Platform | Mar 4, 2026 | Highlights, Measurement, Research update, Visual & Material

The Reading Room, Benjamin Gilbert. Source: Wellcome Collection. Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0). DRP-MH researchers Harriet Barratt and Fiona Johnstone from the Platform’s Visual and Material Lab,...
Lab Coat Lunches 2026: New Online Event Series

Lab Coat Lunches 2026: New Online Event Series

by The Visual and Material Lab | Dec 8, 2025 | Events, Visual & Material

   In Isolation, Sofie Layton (2016) – photo by Stephen King Lab Coat Lunches 2026: Visual and material practice within and beyond the medical humanities Interested in the breadth of visual and material practice in healthcare and the medical...
ARTEFACTS meeting on ‘Care and Repair’

ARTEFACTS meeting on ‘Care and Repair’

by The Visual and Material Lab | Nov 20, 2025 | Visual & Material

Norsk Teknisk Museum (Norwegian Museum of Science and Technology), Oslo, 12-14 October 2025 By Harriet Barratt, Postdoctoral Research Associate, Visual and Material Lab, Discovery Research Platform for Medical Humanities The 30th meeting of the ARTEFACTS network – an...
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