DESIGN IN MENTAL HEALTH AWARDS 2019
Master of Ceremonies, Andy Powell.
Buildings’ contribution to recovery Drawing on his own experience treating mental ill health, Dr Hammond acknowledged the ‘huge contribution of fit-for-purpose therapeutic care settings’. While therapeutic spaces, coupled with access to the outdoors, sunshine, and light, were all key to recovery, equally important, he said, was that those supporting people with mental illness showed them sufficient understanding and support. In today’s hectic world, Dr Hammond also advocated taking at least 15-30 minutes each day ‘to be still’, and to appreciate quiet, nature, landscapes, and one’s immediate environment.
While known for his dry wit, Dr Hammond is also an incisive commentator on current healthcare issues, and was quick to point out that despite continued pressure from politicians, pressure groups, and mental health charities, NHS investment in mental health services still lags significantly behind public spending on physical healthcare.
The Awards Ceremony
After his presentation, it was then time for this year’s Design in Mental Health Awards,
Phil Hammond ensured that guests were well- entertained with a lively after-dinner speech.
with the proceedings marshalled by Andy Powell, assisted by Phil Hammond and representatives from sponsors and others associated with the Design in Mental Health Network. Andy Powell explained that the judges had had a particularly tough task to narrow down a broad range of entries to select winners, and indeed in some categories so high was the standard that ‘Highly Commendeds’ would also be presented, with recipients receiving a certificate, brought to their table.
Product Innovation
The first award, for Product Innovation of the Year, went to Little Islands, for its Jolly Trolley – ‘a portable, interactive entertainment cart that brings fun and festivity anywhere inside and outside of a care home environment’. Specifically designed to stimulate and encourage reminiscence for those living with dementia, it ‘combines the latest sensory lighting, vision, and music technology, with the familiar and traditional looking form of a mobile cart’. Following a successful trial of prototypes in care homes, the Jolly Trolley was officially launched at 2018’s
Product Innovation of the Year Award
stem4 head of fundraising, Miquel Leon-Canete, gave an address setting out the charity’s goals.
Care Show. Designed ‘to be fully tactile’, so that people with dementia can ‘touch it and interact with it while still understanding exactly what it is’, the trolley is also ‘robust, durable, and very safe’. It incorporates ‘reminiscence films’ to ‘stir happy memories for those living with dementia’. Little Islands says this has ‘proven to work really well for de-escalation’. The judges said: ‘A trolley of delights, and an innovative approach to supporting reminiscence.’ Tony Crumpton, Ligature risk reduction manager for category sponsor, Anti-Ligature Shop, presented the 2019 Product Innovation Award to April Roberts, Creative director, and Kerri Sedgwick, Office manager, of Little Islands.
Calming wristband
Highly Commended was ‘doppel’, a wristband that the eponymous supplier says ‘is shown to reduce stress and increase focus’. Beginning working ‘within moments’, it “creates a silent vibration on the inside of the wrist which feels like the ‘lub-dub’ of a heartbeat”. doppel explained: “doppel’s natural psychological effect
Tony Crumpton (left) of Anti-Ligature Shop, presented the 2019 Product Innovation Award to Little Islands’ Creative director, April Roberts (second from right) and Office manager, Kerri Sedgwick flanked, right, by Phil Hammond, for the Jolly Trolley ‘portable, interactive entertainment cart’.
12 JULY 2019 | THE NETWORK
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