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Welcome to the February 2024 edition of The Network – the first edition of 2024 – to kick off a new year of activity and co- production with our industry community. It feels late in the year to be saying it, but a Very Happy New Year, and delighted to have your interest and expertise in our joint mission to celebrate and advocate for the power of good design in mental health settings to bring about demonstrably better outcomes. We ended the DIMHN year on a high –
The positive impact of good landscaping Drawn together through ‘lived experience’
Ohio facility ‘beacon for stigma-free recovery’ February 2024
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COVER PICTURE: Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust has appointed Kier to deliver a new £60 m, 54-bedded acute inpatient mental health hospital in Bexhill as part of its Re-designing Inpatient Services in East Sussex (RIS:ES) Programme (see page 5). There will be three 18-bed wards, all with individual bedrooms and en suite bathrooms, surrounded by attractive, therapeutic landscaped green space.
record attendance at our 2023 AGM and an encouragingly full agenda of progress to report. Please see the round-up on pages 12-16 for more details on what was a useful industry touchbase and celebration. In particular, I was pleased to report on the results of the ‘100 conversations’ initiative, which so many of you took part in. We’ve coalesced the feedback of this work, and will be disseminating comms around the findings and the impact that your contribution has made later in the year. Please do look at our website:
www.dimhn.org, to ensure that you are on our mailing list so that you don’t miss out on the important developments emerging from that engagement drive. There are some fantastic case studies and
evidence of the impact of good design in this edition of our flagship magazine. In particular I’d like to point out Mark Stefan’s article on
Journal of the Design in Mental Health Network An exciting year in prospect
the evidence for the effect of nature (pages 23-26), and the piece from our associate, Stephen Parker, who has generously shared his personal and professional perspective on the design process, and the contribution of lived experience, on pages 28-31. Please also see the news and updates on the Informed Choices roll-out on page 5, with which we continue to see progress and make waves. All this is to kick off what looks set to be
an exciting year, with the move to Manchester for our annual conference and exhibition, the education programme for Informed Choices, the publication of the next Design With People in Mind booklet on the impact of art in mental health settings, and the launch of a new community call out… of which more will be revealed pre-conference. As ever – watch this space. We can’t
over-emphasise how much difference your participation makes. Look forward to seeing you again in the summer. New venue – old friends – and many more new friends to be made. Happy New Year.
Hannah Chamberlain CEO, Design in Mental Health Network
11 AGM attendees hear of ‘evolutionary journey’ 5 News
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A well-attended online Design in Mental Health Network 2023 AGM in November saw the Network’s Workstreams report on a busy year.
18 Ohio facility is ‘beacon for stigma-free recovery’
Nationwide Children’s has built the US’s largest freestanding, full-service psychiatric facility on its children’s hospital campus in Columbus, Ohio.
23 The positive impact of getting landscaping right
Mark Stefan, director of landscape architecture and planning practice, Design with Nature, outlines the principal characteristics of the Contemplative Landscape Model which forms the core of the book, Neuroscience for Designing Green Spaces.
28 Drawn together through ‘lived experience’
Two US architects explain how, having both experienced mental health challenges, they were ‘drawn to sketching as a designer’s preferred medium for defining problems and driving solutions with pen and paper’.
32 The safe and durable range that’s still evolving
The Global head of Products at Pineapple Contracts, which designs and manufactures furniture for challenging environments, explains how a request from a Trust experiencing damage to its dining room furniture led it to develop its rotationally moulded Ryno range.
35 Championing a ‘people first’ approach 38 Supporting rehabilitation in a low secure setting
Social value is now an essential requirement for construction businesses to make a positive impact in society, property and construction company, EDGE, says.
Located at Brooklands Hospital in Solihull, the Onyx Unit is a new, purpose-built, seven- bedded facility to support person-centred clinical assessments and interventions for patients with autism in a low secure setting.
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