DESIGN IN MENTAL HEALTH 2024 EVENT PREVIEW
Bruno Oro.
Lienelle Geldenhuys.
Organisation in Mental Health’. 5 June’s first keynote comes from David Gardner, Director at Holmes Miller Architects, on ‘HMP Stirling: Therapeutic- and Trauma- Informed Approaches to Custodial Design’. The afternoon keynote on day two comes from artist and activist Dolly Sen (see also pages 11-13 of this issue), and is entitled ‘Art Insists the Walls Be Kind’. Within the six key themes for the
conference, visitors will notice two recurring concepts – Co-production and Art – with multiple presentations and workshops touching on these important concepts for achieving better mental health outcomes.
CEO’s Opening Address A leading exponent of co-production, DiMHN’s CEO Hannah Chamberlain will talk about ‘Good Design, Human Value’ in her Opening Address, while Raf Hamaizia from Cygnet Healthcare will ask ‘What is co-production, and how can you do it in the context of the built environment?’ Co-production is also the subject of two case-study-based presentations. The first, from Robin Graham of Gilling Dod Architects, Ed Dwight of Kier, and Paula Kirkland and Richard Barton of Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust, explores the impact of collaboration and co-production on design at RIS:ES Bexhill, a transformative mental health hospital in East Sussex (see also pages 27-30). The second is by Lloyd Griffiths, head of Nursing at Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board, who will talk about co-producing cultural change in an adolescent mental health inpatient unit.
David Willmott.
Lloyd Griffiths. For those wanting to dive deeper
into co-production, there is a workshop entitled ‘Best Practice in co-production and the stakeholder engagement toolkit’, facilitated by Katharine Lazenby (of East London NHS Foundation Trust), Hannah Chamberlain, and William PC Wang from DiMHN. Those interested in the subject of
art as a contributor to mental health recovery can look forward to settling in on the afternoon of day two, when three consecutive art-focused sessions will take place in the Keynote theatre. Following what is sure to be a provocative and eye- opening keynote from Dolly Sen, there will be two presentations from leading academics on the subject of the function of art in mental health settings. The first comes from Professor Paula Reavey of London South Bank University, and Michael Leahy from the National Institute for Health and Care Research, and is titled ‘Art for art’s sake? Examining the Function of art in mental health settings: a review of the evidence’. The second, by Associate Prof. Steve Fossey and Associate Prof. Rachel Baynton, explores a joint project undertaken by the University of Lincoln and NHS Lincolnshire Partnership Foundation Trust to co-design two large artworks drawing on principles of mindfulness and grounding. There is an opportunity to get creative
on day one, with a mental health sketch workshop entitled ‘Drawn Out’, facilitated by Stephen Parker from Stantec. Participants in this highly interactive session will be led through a series of exercises revolving around the stories and
Dr Jacqueline Dyer.
Andy Bell.
personas of two service-users, culminating in a sketching task and a rapid fire, round-robin style crit that fosters an open dialogue around stigma, design, and hope. Service-user-led design will be explored
in several presentations across the two days – including a session from Professor Steven Brown of Nottingham Trent University discussing ‘Personalisation, Participation and Production’ in crafting for design in mental health. Gilling Dod Interior Design’s Hannah Lee will present on service user-led design in therapeutic personal spaces for autism/CAMHS environments, while William PC Wang of Llewelyn Davies and DiMHN will explore a service user’s journey to redesigning mental health assessment spaces in the emergency department.
Designing bespoke environments The challenges and opportunities of designing bespoke environments for particular user groups will be covered in two presentations. Andrew Arnold of Gilling Dod and Karen Howell of Iteriad will discuss ‘Challenging the Norm’ in the design of bespoke environments for learning disabilities, while an NHS perspective comes from Diane Chandler of Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust, who will talk on the challenges of communicating specifications when designing bespoke home environments. Custodial learning is a new focus for Design in Mental Health ,and two sessions in the programme on 5 June will deliver insights direct from the frontline. A presentation from Laura Woods of Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust entitled ‘Delivering Mental Healthcare in the Prison Estate – Where Are We and Where Are We Going?’, will lay out the challenges of delivering clinically safe healthcare in the prison estate, and how future policies can improve prisoner access to healthcare. A session from James Adamson of HM Prison and Probation Service will discuss an initiative using National Prison Radio which introduced soundscaping, together with clips of prisoners’ voices conveying messages around activities and behaviours that could help with their mental health. Case studies on collaborative and
The winners at the 2023 DiMH Awards. This year there are 13 award categories. THE NETWORK | MAY 2024
innovative working can be found throughout the programme, including ‘A Whole New Way – Designing the New Cambridge Children’s Hospital’ by
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