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As we near the end of another calendar year, and the last edition of The Network for 2024, it’s an opportunity to look back over the year’s achievements – and to look forward to 2025. If you are on the mailing list, you will have heard that I’m standing down as CEO in December, and the Network will be starting the process of looking for my replacement, to start in the New Year. I’m therefore in reflective mode as I write my last editorial piece, to say what a great pleasure it has been to work with you, and to have been the first CEO of the Design in Mental Health Network. The most interesting work always happens
Collaborative effort for CAMHS bedroom Designing more ‘humane’ Places of Safety Crafting spaces to meet diverse needs
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COVER PICTURE: DVS KWC says its user-friendly web-based platform, INFORM Control, allows users to understand the behaviour of their water system, remotely implement changes, and see the impact in real time from anywhere in the world. The automatic washroom technology specialist says INFORM Control can remotely monitor, disinfect, and verify, ‘controlling multiple events’.
at the intersections – where interdisciplinary stuff gets done, and people meet. At the Design in Mental Health Network, our cross- section of expertise – from academia to architecture, lived experience to design, and clinical to logistical – means we will always be a community with valuable contributions to make to therapeutic mental health design. This edition of The Network magazine
exemplifies these strengths. Where we work together, collaborate outside our silos, and co-produce with people with lived experience, we will always strengthen our offer. Particular highlights of co-production and collaboration in this edition include a look at the CAMHS bedroom hosted at Kingsway’s HQ, a look at Section 136 Places of Safety – with a focus on service-user experience, by Alice Green from Arcadis, and a piece by Maria Luigi Assirelli
of Floyd Slaski on inclusive design for a new outpatient ward based on neurodivergent patient design principles. Please also see page 6 for a summary guide to co-production principles that the Lived Experience Advisory Panel developed in collaboration with workshop attendees at conference this year. Also notable in this edition is the call to our online 2024 AGM – on November 20th. See page 7 for how you can join. There you will be able to hold us to account for our considerable work this year. There’s been a successful transition of the conference venue to Manchester, an expansion of our audience, and an uplift in our finances, all positioning us for bigger and more ambitious plans in the future. I wish my successor as CEO well in working collaboratively with this exceptional community, drawn together by our joint passion to work for the benefit of the end-user of the mental health built environment. I’m glad the Network has such strong foundations to keep it making a difference and pushing forward its charitable objectives. I look forward to staying in touch. Very best,
Hannah Chamberlain CEO, Design in Mental Health Network
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11 CAMHS bedroom’s positive initial feedback 5 News
Kingsway Group has recently been busy, including working with service-users, experts-by- experience, and architects, to develop a new ‘co-production’ CAMHS bedroom.
17 Restoring dignity to the healing journey
Hassell’s Stephen Watson discusses the design of the 64-bedded Acute Mental Health Unit in Ipswich, Queensland, a Highly Commended entry at the 2024 DiMH Awards.
27 Designing environments for Learning Disabilities 23 A ‘human’ approach to Places of Safety
34 Crafting spaces that cater for diverse needs
The team at Floyd Slaski Architects say ‘inclusive design’ is about ‘crafting spaces that cater to the diverse needs of all individuals, ensuring they can reach their full potential’.
39 ‘Innovative alternatives’ to cistern-flush WCs
Delabie’s Marketing and Communications manager discusses ‘innovative alternatives’ to cistern-flush WCs in mental healthcare facilities, to prevent the problems associated with stagnant water and associated harmful waterborne bacteria.
44 The therapeutic setting needing tailored furniture
David Bailey Furniture discusses its expertise manufacturing specialist furniture and fittings for mental healthcare settings, focusing on its work for a new eating disorders unit.
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A senior architect at Arcadis argues that insufficient thought has been given to date to the design and feel of ‘Places of Safety’, and outlines the practice’s alternative ‘vision’.
Andrew Arnold of Gilling Dod Architects says designing ‘productive and appropriate environments’ for service-users with learning disabilities and/or Autism, ‘requires a bit of a reset in terms of design approach’.
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