2015 DIMH Awards Dinner
The Design Champion Award was presented to Rosemary Jenssen (left), by Gary Barnes, senior director, Kier Health.
announce that this year’s Design Champion is Rosemary Jenssen.”
IMPROVING ACTIVITIES ON THE WARD The evening’s final award, for Services to Mental Health, went to Marion Janner of Star Wards, an initiative which Jenny Gill explained was ‘about improving activities on mental healthcare awards’, and ‘giving service-users something to do’. She added: “From a design perspective, this increase in activity led to us beginning to think about flexible spaces, to accommodate more and different activities.” With the winner unable to attend, this award was presented by Jenny Gill to Hannah Chamberlain of Barrage Media, who received it on Marian Janner’s behalf. A mental health service-user herself, she said that, like many others involved in improving mental healthcare environments who had themselves experienced
Hannah Chamberlain (centre) collected the Services to Mental Health Award on behalf of the winner, Marion Janner, of Star Wards.
mental illness, it was Marion Janner’s ability ‘to make her own personal experience universally useful to a wide range of people’ that was so ‘inspiring’, and the reason why she had been given the award. With the judges ‘finding it extremely difficult to single out a winner in this category’, two commendations were also made for Services to Mental Health – the first to Clare Allan, and the second to Mad Love, a project led by ‘art and activism collective of one’, James Leadbitter, also known as ‘The Vacuum Cleaner’, based on his personal experience of mental health hospitals, and his ‘desire to find a positive space to experience mental distress… and enlightenment’.
A ‘DESIGNER ASYLUM’
The project – on which he spoke at this year’s conference – aims ‘to bring together people with
and without mental health experiences, mental health professionals, academics, artists, and designers – and everyone else on the spectrum, to attempt to create a unique space where mutual care blossoms, stigma and discrimination are actively challenged, divisions are understood, and madness can be experienced in a less painful way’. Both Clare Allan and James Leadbitter received commendation certificates before the presentations closed. Finally, Jenny Gill congratulated all the award-winners and shortlisted individuals/organisations, and said she hoped audience members would already be thinking about what they might enter for next year.
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Clare Allan, the author, writer, and campaigner, and James Leadbitter, who leads the ‘Mad Love’ project, received commendation certificates in the Services to Mental Health category.
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