Environments
Creating Environments Designed to Heal
Attending Design in Mental Health allows you to learn from and interact with experts who design, work in, and supply solutions for a diverse range of mental health environments. Below is a selection of the settings on which you can find information, ideas and inspiration at the event.
If you have expertise on the environments below on which you could speak at a future edition of Design in Mental Health, we are keen to hear from you. Please get in touch to discuss possible collaboration.
Selected content from the 2024 Conference Programme:
4 June 2024
16:20 - 16:40
Service User Led Design: Designing Therapeutic Personal Spaces for Autism/CAMHS Environments
Speaker:
Hannah Lee Interior Designer - Gilling Dod Interior Design
5 June 2024
14:30 - 15:00
Coproducing Cultural Change and Improvement at our Adolescent Mental Health Inpatient Unit Using our 4Cs Philosophy and Visual Identity
Speaker:
Lloyd Griffiths Head of Nursing - Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board
Real environments created by members of the Design in Mental Health community:
External courtyard to secure visiting space at Fitzroy House, Northampton, UK.
Image credit: P+HS Architects
Corridor with wall graphics, touch down seating and anti-barricade doors at CAMHS Stopford House, Stockport, UK.
Image credit: FWP Group
Modular lounge furniture in a CAMHS unit at Udston Hospital, Hamilton, Scotland.
Image credit: Pineapple Contracts
Selected content from the 2024 Conference Programme:
4 June 2024
11:00 - 11:30
Design for Health and Well-being – Design Suggestions For Interior Design in Compulsory Care Facilities
Speakers:
Dr Sepideh Olausson Senior Lecturer - University of Gothenburg
Dr Franz James Senior Lecturer, Designer - University of Gothenburg
11:30
Medium-secure Spaces That Promote a Meaningful Day for Patients: Sycamore at Northgate Hospital
Speaker:
Paul Yeomans Director - Medical Architecture
11:30 - 12:00
Patient and Staff Lived Experience of Social Spaces
Speaker:
Donna Ciarlo Doctoral Student - London Southbank University
14:30 - 15:00
A Sheltered Retreat for the Specialist Treatment of Eating Disorders: Kimmeridge Court
Speakers:
Dr Carla Figuerido Consultant Psychiatrist in Eating Disorders - Consultant Psychiatrist in Eating Disorders
Laura Delgado Senior Architect - Medical Architecture
5 June 2024
11:00 - 11:30
Collaboration and Co-Production – Impact on Design at RIS:ES Bexhill
Speakers:
Ed Dwight Senior Project Manager - Kier Construction Southern
Richard Barton Expert by Experience - Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
Paula Kirkland Programme Director, Redesigning Inpatients Services in East Sussex (RIS:ES) - Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
Robin Graham Gilling Dod Architects
11:30 - 12:00
A Service User’s Journey to Redesigning Mental Health Assessment Spaces in the Emergency Department
Speaker:
William PC Wang Architect - Llewelyn Davies & Design in Mental Health Network
14:30 - 15:00
A Whole New Way – Designing the New Cambridge Children’s Hospital
Speakers:
Joanna Carr Clinical Lead Nurse - Cambridge Childrens' Hospital Project
Lienelle Geldenhuys Associate Director - White Arkitekter
Real environments created by members of the Design in Mental Health community:
View from patient bedroom corridor into Courtyard at Hopewood Park Hospital, Ryhope, Sunderland.
Image credit: Medical Architecture/Jennie Webb
View from the café, into ‘The Street’ at Ferndene Children and Young People’s Centre, Northumberland, UK.
Image credit: Medical Architecture/Jill Tate
Ward courtyard with “anti-ligature” sliding windows and risk-assessed landscape furniture and planting, at National Forensic Mental Health Service Hospital, Dublin, Ireland.
Image credit: Scott Tallon Walker Architects/Medical Architecture/Paul Tierney
Environments
Selected content from the 2024 Conference Programme:
5 June 2024
09:30 - 10:30
Keynote: HMP Stirling – Therapeutic and Trauma Informed Approaches to Custodial Design
Speaker:
David Gardner Project Director - Holmes Miller
11:00 - 11:30
Delivering Mental Health Care in The Prison Estate – Where Are We And Where Are We Going?
Speaker:
Laura Woods Consultant Nurse, Independent Prescriber Responsible Clinician, Forensic Healthcare Services - Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
11:30 - 12:00
Tuning into Mental Wellbeing
Speakers:
Kate Netten Evidence Specialist - HMPPS Evidence Based Practice Team
James Adamson Senior Manager, Mental Health Lead - HM Prison & Probation Service
Real environments created by members of the Design in Mental Health community:
Custodial doorsets at SPS Womans National Facility – Cornton Vale
Image credit: Safehinge Primera.
Dining furniture in a custodial environment at HM YOI (Young Offenders Institution) Feltham.
Image credit: Pineapple Furniture
Dining furniture at Southern Remand Centre, Tasmania, Australia.
Image credit: Xsquared Architects/Pineapple Contracts/©NatashaMulhall
Selected content from the 2024 Conference Programme:
4 June 2024
15:00 - 15:30
Backworth: A Holistic Approach to Living Well: A Model for Future Communities?
Speaker:
Katie Shepherd P+HS Architects
16:00 - 17:00
It’s No Fun Getting Older
Speaker:
Andrea Harman Concept Developer Healthcare - Saint-Gobain Ecophon
Real environments created by members of the Design in Mental Health community:
Enhancing the ambiance of the space by establishing a visual link with nature through the incorporation of elements such as LED sky, abstract forest wallpaper and organic manifestation pattern, at St Barnabas Hospice Wellbeing Day Centre, Boston, UK.
Image credit: Alessandro Caruso Architects
Hair salon at Hammerson House, London, UK.
Image credit: P+HS Architects
CGI-generated image of Elderly Care Room, showing repeatable base room layout configured for elderly care clinical use, with views of nature and natural light. Replicating domestic environment.
Image credit: HLM Architects
Real environments created by members of the Design in Mental Health community:
Bird’s eye view of central courtyard showing landscape and recreation areas at Sycamore at Northgate Hospital, Northumberland, UK.
Image credit: Medical Architecture/Richard Chivers
Roof garden patient courtyard at Springfield Hospital, London, UK.
Image credit: Sir Robert McAlpine
External Therapy Space at Kingfisher Court, Radlett, UK.
Image credit: P+HS Architects
Selected content from the 2024 Conference Programme:
4 June 2024
15:00 - 15:30
Challenging The Norm – Designing Bespoke Environments for Learning Disabilities
Speakers:
Joey Dunn Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust
Karen Howell Managing Director - Iteriad
Andrew Arnold Gilling Dod Architects
16:00 - 16:20
16:20 - 16:40
Service User Led Design: Designing Therapeutic Personal Spaces for Autism/CAMHS Environments
Speaker:
- Hannah Lee Interior Designer - Gilling Dod Interior Design
Real environments created by members of the Design in Mental Health community:
Participant special education at New York-Presbyterian – The Uptown Hub, New York, USA.
Image credit: Stantec
Multi-Sensory Room for SEN Unit within a Primary School.
Image credit: Creative Activity
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