Project: Sydney Children’s Hospital Stage 1 and Minderoo Children’s Comprehensive Cancer Centre: Arts, Play and Discovery
Organisation: Health Infrastructure NSW
Place: Sydney
Year: 2022 – Current
Project Type: Current
Header image: SCH1 Centre Court Entry design render – Billard Leece Partnership
Sydney Children’s Hospital, Randwick Stage 1 and Australia’s first Children’s Comprehensive Cancer Centre located in the Randwick Health and Innovation Precinct are a $658 million redevelopment project. Some of the new facilities in the hospital will include a new children’s Emergency Department and intensive care unit, medical short stay unit, Minderoo Children’s Comprehensive Cancer Centre, day oncology centre, laboratories to support cancer research education, research spaces and education and training spaces for staff.
City People is currently engaged as the Arts, Play and Discovery consultant for this redevelopment. In collaboration with specialist play advisors Toy Diplomacy, City People is currently developing and implementing a curatorial plan for arts, play and digital opportunities integrated into public domain, clinical and non-clinical spaces across the new facilities.
SCH1 and MCCCC design render (Billard Leece Partnership)
Objectives
- Plan and implement extensive stakeholder and community engagement to canvas diverse communities’ aspirations for arts play and discovery options in the new hospital.
- Develop the Arts Play and Discovery curatorial plan: a program of arts commissions, play and discovery opportunities, partnerships and integrated digital experiences for the new facility.
- Undertake a scoping study and subsequently coordinate the curation, fit-out and programming of the Discovery Centre at the Sydney Children’s Hospital, Randwick.
- Collaborate with program partners from research and innovation sectors in the precinct to engage visitors to the precinct in the world-leading research and discovery taking place within the precinct, including at the Children’s Cancer Institute and the work of
the Minderoo Children’s Comprehensive Cancer Centre.
