@ovid Well, wasn't there this famous design story about the college campus that didn't pave paths but let the people trample down footpaths in the quad and paved them afterwards?

Basically the same thing.

@ovid Wow.

@ovid

@ovid
I assume the OR is to the right?

@ovid the tarp covered in handprints really ties the room together.

@ovid i have... so many questions

@ovid
That looks more like the half-hearted effort to clean the floor the last time I haemorrhaged on getting out of bed after a gynae op. Wonder how much the nurse got paid?
#TooMuchBlood

@ovid@fosstodon.org "Come Stanley, it's an adventure!" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VuaMJ25wz9A

@ovid
Laughing and crying 😀😀😬

@ovid
I understand the importance of lines on the floor in a large hospital so you know where the hell you are going

and I like desire lines - they show paths across grass that humans truly want, in spite of some civil planner's rigid ideas of optimization

my issue is using the corpse to make the lines :blobcatgrimacing:

@ovid I appreciate you mean well, but if bad taste helped deal with imposter syndrome we'd be here til National Trump Day's 5th anniversary

@ovid @ines Please tell me that’s what you follow to find the morgue.

@ovid 😂😂😂

@ovid Looks like something out of The Shining!

@ovid The designer is the one laughing at us poor saps here who paid for it!

@ovid
@Souristine

I know that hospital, that's the corridors after renovation on my childhood neighbourhood (Belgian decoration, yeah) and a friend of mine give birth in the Maternity department. Piece of laught when walking in the corridors !

@ovid @charles_ex

@ovid haha yeah that photo led to a Tumblr classic meme 😂 https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/tumblr-color-theory-childrens-hospital-post

Seems like the first thing people learn in floor design:
Dirt should not be visible.

Everything else comes second.
@ovid

@ovid 😳😳😳

@ovid

Ahhh yes, how could I forget this gem.
If you see bloody trails you're just a pleb that doesn't understand color theory lol.

@ovid It invokes visions of bleeding patients being moved through the halls and the wheels of beds tracing the lines with their blood as they scream in agony. I like the bloody handprints on the far wall curtain. Obvious wrong turn to the left in the typical maze of hospital halls. Not a happy place.

@ovid After the meme went around years ago, they have now painted it blue 😉 https://www.inspiremore.com/epoxy-ocean-floor/

@ovid That is both absolutely fabulous and wholly inappropriate at the same time.

Someone has a very wicked sense of humour... 😈

@ovid Better than this portion of meat - a clinic nearby: https://www.yelp.com/biz_photos/cliniques-de-l-europe-ste-elisabeth-brussels?select=c2H6T6eIX7djYk9x02zPNA

@ovid something went really wrong with this Stanley Parable Adventure Line™

@ovid Good God.

@ovid oh no

@ovid

Alternate caption: "The new Max Payne game is coming along fine."

@ovid That's great. Hope to see something like that if I happen to enter a hospital. But it can wait.

@ovid @Habrok42 @merlielle

@ovid @thomasfuchs Brilliant.

@ovid pretty sure this is a level from one of the Silent Hill games 👀

@ovid Hospital designs by Steven King!

@ovid
And look, here comes Dr Jack with his axe.

(Nicholson, snowed-in hotel movie from long ago.

@ovid
I've seen the paintbrush theme used here 🇺🇲 in a children's hospital & those same fingerpaint handprints in oncology. The drag marks are #StephenKing-esque, clearly not an in-house design.
Met a guy in the '90s who'd founded an oncology software company he named, cards printed, with the acronym METS, not working in healthcare, not recognizing the very common slang for "metastasis."
It's good to run things up the flagpole.

@ovid 👀

@ovid@fosstodon.org oh... And these hands on the back... I will have nightmares today

@ovid omg

@ovid any color would have been OK, except red...

@ovid

i love the idea of gore desing in hospitals...

@ovid Looks like Jenova escaped!

@ovid But color theory!

@ovid

Completely dont get your point, solution found! - "How do we identify the emergency room, readable by all language speakers."

Of course it might be the morgue.

</snark>

@ovid So, if said designer sees this toot … he's officially allowed to claim being the biggest and only imposter in the room? (Asking for a friend. 😬)

@ovid I admit that a local hospital's yellow line leading to the urology dept. comes in second after this.

@ovid

@ovid A childrens hospital too lmao

@ovid genius 😁

@ovid reminds me of the meme with the death knocking on doors…

@ovid what the actual fuck

@ovid

At least they didn't paint the word REDRUM on the walls

@ovid
It happens to the best of us. We all get caught out sometimes.

@ovid noooooo

@ovid Wow I thought the hotel in Virginia I stayed at had murder-vibes but that’s far worse!

@ovid "Which sequel of The Shining is this from?"

@ovid
🙀

@ovid That's ...unfortunate.

@ovid and someone approved it…more than one someone probably an entire board committee

@ovid *stares in tumblr*

@ovid They could also have an exceptionally deranged world view, and this was just them actualizing that. Artists can be weird.

@ovid To be fair, I’d get a morbid kick out of it as a patient. Probably as a nurse too if I were one. As a surgeon… not so much.

@ovid someone played Max Payne 1 and really enjoyed the comic book levels.

@ovid That's just the work of a genius subversive!

@ovid Ouch.

@ovid No spray marks on the wall. Opportunity missed.

@ovid

Who? Carcass? #HeavyMetal #DeathMetal

@ovid Ah yes, the bloodtrail left by for profit healthcare systems. The desire for inoffensive art motifs has come full circle.

@ovid Of all the colors in existence, they used literal blood red... 👀

That is A choice...

@ovid ...

@ovid well, at least we know it is a surgery room?

@ovid

Sets expectations...

@ovid

@ovid A retirement home has just opened up near me and for some reason they have called it.............. Pearly Gates?......

@ovid it’s like a body was drug through bleeding to death.

@ovid color theory is coming to mastodon \o/

@ovid WTF? is it a children's hospital? then mayyyybe I could understand.

@ovid

What the actual f…….?

@ovid was that Childrens' Hospital?

@ovid Ahhh, the infamous "color theory" meme. Gotta be among the top ten World Heritage Memes on Tumblr. Several of my friends there tag me every time they see it, and I'm not entirely sure why. Little bit weird seeing it here.

@ovid It took me a while to track it down because I thought it was a joke, but it seems that it was at Ixelles' hospital, Brussels. At least in nov 2018. Looking at the walls it seems like there was some work to be done, so maybe it was just temporary and it's not like this nowadays ? Someone should check if nearby ;)
Bad design anyway I agree.

@ovid Holy shit.

@ovid @Nirbos

@ovid this The Shining sequel looks lit.

@ovid standard navigation around Emergency departments if I’m being brutally honest! 🤣

@ovid Thank you, I feel much better now 😂

@ovid Well, at least it’s not a school design.

@ovid Or they could just use sensible shaped lines. My children's hospital, Victorian building by the 1980s had clearly different colours for main routes, outpatients, X-ray and something else and you just followed the 3 inch wide line you wanted + signage... No fuss...

@ovid the manager: I know you're creative, surprise us!
The designer: say no more!!!

@ovid Complete with bloody handprints. Dear God! 🫣

@ovid "all bleeding stops eventually"

@ovid ooooh! Situationally unaware art commissions! I love it.

This one totally reminds me of the art installation commissioned by the #TTC for use in the newly renovated Union Station.

For a transit hub that sees thousands (if not more) passengers a day, you'd want to elicit some excitement and wonder when you step off the train, no?

So let's give them this shit to really remind them of the futility of the daily grind.