CO-DESIGN AND SERVICE-USER EXPERIENCE


architect this was as natural as putting pen to paper. “This is how DrawnOut! was born. To


share our experiences and have others learn more deeply about mental health design, exercise empathy, and work together designing a visitation suite in a psychiatric inpatient setting. Our workshops, in their fifth iteration, vary in length, and have anything from as few as 12 participants to as many as 75. While we’ve geared toward architects and designers, we’ve found vocal support from many disciplines that benefit from the collaborating across silos and impact the built environment. Schools, workplaces, housing, and more, are all sectors that could benefit from considering the mental wellbeing of their occupants with a variety of lived experiences. It’s this creative, collaborative atmosphere that is the most successful element of the workshops; namely the empathy exercise with a partner, the joint sketching assignment, and sharing the drawings in rapid-fire, round robin-style ‘crits’ that facilitate a dynamic group discussion.


Our mission is simple: Defy stigma by design “If we can Elevate the conversation around mental health, Educate each other on Mental Health Design, and Advocate in our practices and influence policy, we can draw out a better world for those in crisis.”


Stephen Parker


Stephen Parker AIA, NOMA, NCARB, LEED AP, is a licensed architect and dedicated behavioural health planner in the Washington, DC region at Stantec. A proponent of ‘architect as advocate’ for colleague, client, and community alike, he believes strongly in leadership through service. Co-leading Stantec’s Mental+Behavioral Health Design Practice, Stephen Parker develops mental health projects ‘from the Arctic to Australasia’. He served as co-convener of the AIA Strategic Council’s Mental Health + Architecture Incubator during the pandemic, is a member of the Academy of Neuroscience for Architecture, and helped author the US Department of Veterans Affairs (VA’s) new Inpatient Mental Health Design Guide. He serves as an Associate to the Board for the Design in Mental Health Network, is a Founding Member of the Center for Health Design’s Behavioral & Mental Health Environment Network, and a US representative to


the International Union of Architects’ (UIA) Public Health Group. He was named a Future Leader by Behavioral Health Business in 2023, and was selected as a global ULI Health Leader.


Shahad Niyazi Sadeq n


Shahad Niyazi Sadeq Assoc. AIA, is the Executive Director at the American Institute of Architects’ (AIA) Springfield chapter, and an architectural designer. Passionate about amplifying diverse voices in the profession, and developing sustainable workplace culture, she continues to exist at the intersection of architecture and advocacy. Her experience – as a previous JEDI (Justice, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion) member at Smithgroup, co-founder of both the EDI (Equity, Diversity and Inclusion) taskforce at AIA Dallas, Equity in Architecture Committee at AIA Kansas City, and current co-founder/ co-leader of Immigrant Architect Coalition – has equipped her with the skills and insight to communicate, educate, and engage strategically with advancing holistic policy that delivers efficient growth of potential in the workplace.


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