HOSPITAL CRIME SCENE is the title Hans Nickl gave to his lecture at the sixth in the series of symposia in Berlin. In doing so, he called attention to the problem of overreliance on technology and the trend toward over-diagnosis in hospital operations and questioned the whereabouts of the human in a hospital world characterised by rationalism. He spoke, in particular, about communication in everyday treatment and presented possibilities for the design of spaces for staff and patients that encourage communication, based on the New Hauner paediatric centre project in Munich.