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Benjamin Dalton
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Lecturer in French Studies in the School of Global Affairs at Lancaster University. Queer Medical Humanities and Philosophies of the Hospital! 🏥🏳️‍🌈 Founder of the Queer Medical Humanities Network + programme lead for MA Global Medical and Health Humanities
This workshop invited visitors to use speculative design and design fiction methodologies to imagine clinical spaces and architectures that are more inclusive to everyone.

Thanks to everyone who dropped by!
November 6, 2025 at 11:06 PM
This will take place in Lancaster Central Library on 4th November between 9:30-11:30.

Come to our drop-in, take part in the simulation of a future hospital waiting room, and use speculative design methods to design your own hospital waiting room of the future in response!
October 27, 2025 at 9:11 PM
This talk explored representations of hospitals in contemporary documentary, asking how film might provide both a critical and creative space for rethinking clinical design.
October 22, 2025 at 4:57 PM
It also draws on themes of neuroplastic narrativity in the work of Catherine Marabou which I develop in my forthcoming book (which I promise I'll stop talking about at some point!)
September 10, 2025 at 4:40 PM
This was all about the role that storytelling plays in the patient experience of neurological care and surgery, and involved Tinder, a homophobe, the Lion King, and an Endoscopic Third Ventriculostomy.
September 10, 2025 at 4:40 PM
- Screening documentary and fictional films about hospitals from across the world

and much more!

with many many thanks to the wonderful Glyn Jone to facilitating and accompanying us on the visit today!
July 16, 2025 at 8:34 AM
- Undertaking several hospital site visits, including The Harbour psychiatric hospital in Blackpool, and Fleetwood Hospital
- Meeting other local companies in the area who are working on creative healthcare design
- The launch of the project: The Queer Lives of the Hospital:
July 16, 2025 at 8:34 AM
I am collaborating with MADE For Health on projects aiming to make healthcare design more joyful and inclusive.

This is week 2 of the residency. We will be doing the following exciting things together:
July 16, 2025 at 8:34 AM