DiMH 2022 AWARDS
Outside Space of the Year
a parkland perimeter landscape. DiMHN Chair, Philip Ross, presented the award to Elaine Wilkinson, Strategic Estates Project manager at Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust, and Karen Flatt, Mental Health lead at IBI Group. The judges said: “The design provides a variety of outdoor spaces with well-thought-out adjacencies, and also allows service-users to connect with the outdoor spaces from within the building.”
Intervention for children with mental health issues A Highly Commended certificate will go to the South London & Maudsley NHS FT’s Pears Maudsley Centre, a joint venture between the South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust, King’s College London (KCL), and the Maudsley Charity, which aims to provide early effective intervention for the one in eight children suffering with mental health issues. The Centre is at the Denmark Hill campus in south-east London, ‘at the heart of an active, healthy site linking existing woodland to the east, and a future public square to the west’. The entry said: “Landscaped terraces increase biodiversity and provide biophilic therapeutic spaces, and allow the landscaped route to extend vertically up the building, forming a central green beacon for the site. These features inclusively accommodate a wide range of building users – including patients and vulnerable people, clinical service professionals, and mental health researchers.”
Rowan View: ‘The design provides a variety of outdoor spaces with well-thought-out adjacencies, and also allows service-users to connect with the outdoor spaces from within the building.’
Research & Education Also new for 2022, the next award – for Research and Education – sponsored by P+HS Architects, went to the University of Westminster (UoW) and Imperial College London for their entry, ‘Mental Health, Design and Wellbeing: A Co- design Workshop’. Of the ‘unique cross- disciplinary collaboration’ between the Medical School at Imperial College London, and the School of Architecture and Cities at the University of Westminster, the entrants said: “Using a co-design paradigm, the partnership has transformed existing pedagogies in both disciplines, with over 650 students, from six undergraduate and postgraduate medicine and architecture- related courses, supported by over 40 staff from both institutions.”
Three years in planning In two one-day co-design workshops – with students working in cross-disciplinary groups with patient, patient advocate, architect, and health professional input – students were asked to reflect on four defined mental health conditions, ‘to identify problems and propose innovative solutions’ for the design of four existing NHS mental healthcare sites. The entry said: “Co-design offers an immersive and experiential learning experience, challenging the conventional pedagogy of designer-client / expert-user, introducing experts-by-experience. The workshops’ participatory nature provokes both disciplines out of their comfort zone,
offering students a positive re-framing of their expectations of what it means to be a ‘professional’ architect or doctor, and reconsidering the language and methods they communicate with.” The workshops are delivered as a series of tangible tasks that stimulate discussion and emphasise the importance of ‘hands-on-skills’ in both medicine and architecture. The judges commented: “Excellent cross-disciplinary collaboration, both in terms of research and education, and we really liked the fact that they are carrying out post-completion reviews.” DiMHN Board member, and director at P+HS Architects, Cath Lake, presented the award to Izabela Dima, a recent BSc Architecture & Environmental Design graduate from the University of Westminster.
Pharmacist independent prescriber Highly Commended was Fitrah Designs. The entry came from Shabbir Mellick, a pharmacist independent prescriber, who ‘on his journey supporting mental health over the last few years’, has become an author, speaker, cognitive behavioural therapy coach, and the founder of Fitrah Designs, ‘which began as a wellbeing company, to correct and challenge the taboos surrounding mental health and wellbeing’. Shabbir Mellick has worked with schools, community organisations, and GPs’ surgeries to promote mental health awareness, and produced a series of wellbeing activity books to assist people with stress, worry, and depression. He is
The ‘Mental Health, Design and Wellbeing: A Co-design Workshop’ was described as ‘a unique cross-disciplinary collaboration’ between the Medical School at Imperial College London and the School of Architecture and Cities at the University of Westminster.
Research & Education
12 AUGUST 2022 | THE NETWORK
Image courtesy of Luke Hayes
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