DiMH 2022 PREVIEW David Parkin. Richard Mazuch.
memoir about recovering from a brain injury. In 2015 he was sectioned for four months while experiencing his first bipolar manic episode, and in 2018 created ‘David Parkin’s Delusions of Grandeur’, a fully immersive installation that ‘tells you everything you didn’t want to know about getting sectioned’. In his address, he will discuss his ‘re-imagined’ seclusion, and cover areas where he believes the NHS’s approach to mental health is still ‘massively out of touch’.
Transforming an 800-year-old barn The second day’s final Room A presentation will be by Benjamin Harbron, Project manager, and Rebecca Lewis- Chapman, director, of architecture and interior design studio, The IAD Company, describing how they transformed two 800-year-old, grade II-listed, derelict stone barns into ‘a flagship residential home’ for adults with conditions relating to autism. They explain: “The West Aberthaw Barns project was truly one-of-a-kind, and posed some of the most interesting problems we have encountered. It was far from a vanity project though; our client did not choose these old stone ruins for the novelty or prestige.” The two presenters will explain how they ‘overcame the challenges posed
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by these ancient structures, while making the most of the unique opportunities that they had to offer’.
Day Two Room B
Developing a well-respected US patient safety guideline Day Two’s Room B programme will open with a presentation by American architect, and Principal of Architecture+, Frank Pitts, titled ‘Inside the New York State Office of Mental Health – Patient Safety Guideline’. Co-presenting with colleague, Sara Wengert, he will discuss a ‘guideline’ that has become ‘a referenced National Standard in the US’. He says: “We developed and now maintain the document, including overseeing materials testing. The story of how the standard was developed and is maintained and managed might be of interest to DiMHN members, who have undertaken a similar project (with the BRE) in the UK.” Following Frank Pitts, Susan Grant, Principal Architect, NHS Scotland Assure, and Andrew Baillie of NHS Greater Glasgow & Clyde, will discuss ‘Self- harm reduction – lessons on the built environment from NHS Scotland’.
Sex, love and rock’n roll Richard Mazuch, director of Design Research and Innovation at IBI Group, and the founder of IBI TH!NK, will then speak following the morning coffee break. An advocate of evidence-based design, he creates ‘innovations that positively impact on specific patient groups’. In his presentation, ‘Sex, love and rock ‘n roll baby boomers – Unusual insights, issues and solutions’, he will focus on “an alternative, more attractive design proposition for the ‘Baby Boomer’ generation”.
The Silver Tsunami He says: “The Silver Tsunami is about to reach landfall hoping to see 2020 Design Vision for a very different future. Not one that is visually and mentally debilitating, containing Parker Knoll derivatives, fireplaces, over-sized clocks, rocking chairs, menageries of grabrails, flock wallpaper, and nicotine colourways, all saturated in a biome of ‘senior home’ smells, unsuccessfully masked by rose/ lavender scents. Let us deconstruct, reconstruct, and reboot, today’s obsolete concepts into forward-looking paradigms focusing on invisibly and symbiotically supportive features that create environments that offer experiences that empower.” Following Richard Mazuch, Capital
Projects manager at Pennine Care NHS Foundation Trust, Sarah Mcullough, will address ‘Mental health inpatient design and build in inherited buildings’.
recognise excellence This year’s annual DiMH event will also see the presentation of the Design in Mental Health 2022 Awards, including two new awards – the Outside Spaces Award and the Research and Education Award. The other nine 2022 awards – all 11 will be presented at an evening ceremony in the
Premier Lounge at the close of the event’s first day – will be: l Concept Product Innovation. l Service User Engagement. l Project of the Year – Refurbishment. l Project of the Year – New Build. l Art Installation. l Clinical Team. l Low Cost – High Impact. l Product Innovation. l Estates & Facilities Team of the Year.
For more information on the Design in Mental Health 2022 Conference, Exhibition, and Awards, visit
www.designinmentalhealth.com, or telephone: 01892 518877.
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Acoustics and their impact On a different note, Andrea Harman, a Concept developer at Saint-Gobain Ecophon who has worked in room acoustics for over 25 years, will then speak on ‘Sound design – a person-centred, sensory approach to room acoustics’. She explains: “Recognised as a stressor, noise forms a key aspect of our body’s danger and alert mechanism – triggering a physiological and behavioural reaction. By learning more about the impacts of poor acoustic design of a space, and linking this to the possible effect on users, buildings can be constructed to avoid common acoustic challenges that frequently result in a negative response.” The Day Two Room B programme will close with a repeat of the ‘Seclusion: do we need it? What should it look like?’workshop led by DiMHN Board member, Trudi Beswick, who has been CEO at Caudwell Children since its inception in 2000, and whose vision it was to develop the new Caudwell International Children’s Centre at Keele Science and Innovation Park. Complementing the conference (see page 15 for the full programme) will be an exhibition at which leading suppliers will showcase a variety of products, technologies, and services, a number of them new. The following pages (17-21) include information on these.
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