DiMH 2022 PREVIEW
Topical themes set for Coventry event agenda
Taking place at the Coventry Building Society Arena from 8-9 June, Design in Mental Health 2022 will provide plenty for professionals working in the sector with an interest in improving the mental healthcare environment to discuss, debate, and take back to their day-to-day work. Both days will feature high-profile keynote speakers, with the conference covering a broad range of subject matter. The Network’s editor, Jonathan Baillie, reports.
This year’s Design in Mental Health conference, exhibition, and awards will take place face-to-face after a two-year period during which, as well as having affected many millions of people physically, the pandemic has equally impacted the mental health and wellbeing of individuals from all walks of life and varying ages. Here we focus on some of the content in what should be a thought-provoking, topical, and informative conference.
Day One Room A
Day One’s Room A conference programme will begin with Paul Yeomans, a director at Medical Architecture, presenting on ‘Creating a centre of excellence for forensic services’. The highly experienced healthcare designer, DiMHN Design Ambassador, and member of the Network’s Advisory Group, will discuss the £50 m redevelopment of Northgate Hospital in Morpeth, Northumbria, to bring together all of the Trust’s secure services into a single, integrated, ‘secure centre of excellence’. One of the first New Hospital Programme projects to start construction, the redeveloped facility will be designed around a ‘village campus’ concept. The presentation will focus on the project’s ‘complex journey’, and highlight the key design aspects.
‘Place and space’ in forensic settings Franz James, senior lecturer in Furniture
Design in Secure Care Environments at the University of Gothenburg, and Sepideh Olausson, senior lecturer in Critical Care at Sweden’s Sahlgrenska Academy, will then discuss ‘The meanings of place and space in forensic psychiatric care – and their implications for interior design, patient wellness, and staff work environment’, drawing on a recent study of patients’ experience of the physical environment in a forensic psychiatric hospital. Their joint address and a coffee break will be followed by an interactive mid-morning roundtable discussion and design workshop led by Trudi Beswick, CEO at national pan-disability children’s charity, Caudwell Children, focusing on ‘Seclusion: do we need it? What should it look like?’, with advice and expert insight from facility designers, managers, clinicians, experts- by-experience, product specialists, and academics. (NB, pre-booking is essential; to book, contact the event organisers). After lunch, in the Day One Room A
afternoon keynote, Sarah Hughes, CEO of the Centre for Mental Health, who has worked in mental health and criminal justice for 30 years, will discuss the Centre’s work on mental health equality, the organisation’s ‘system design’, and ‘examples of where it is working’. Having initially trained as a social worker, Sarah Hughes has managed a range of innovative community and secure services, and led the research and evaluation of the pioneering ‘First Night in Custody’ project at Holloway Prison, which saw the roll-out of these principles across
the prison estate. In recent years, she has led CPSL Mind, an organisation known internationally for values-led practice and high impact campaigns, including ‘Stop Suicide’ and ‘StressLess’.
Children’s mental health design in America Sarah Hughes’s presentation will be followed by US architect, Frank Pitts, presenting on ‘Children’s mental health facility design in the United States’. The MD of US architectural practice, architecture+, Frank Pitts has designed facilities ranging from libraries to mental healthcare facilities, and has served as the President of the AIA’s Academy of Architecture for Health, and the American College of Healthcare Architects. He will present jointly with Architecture+ colleague, Principal-in-Charge and lead interior designer, Sara Wengert. Also focusing on designing facilities for
young people, the next speaker, associate director at Gilling Dod Architects, Robin Graham, will discuss the design and construction of Red Kite View – a new CAMHS Unit for West Yorkshire that harnesses elements of biophilic design.
Service-users and eating The final Day One Room A presentation will see Dr Carla Figueiredo, a consultant psychiatrist at Dorset Eating Disorder Service, part of Dorset HealthCare University NHS Foundation Trust, discuss ‘Clinical and design principles for an Eating Disorders Unit’.
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Franz James. THE NETWORK | MAY 2022
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