Location: Workshop

Design Thinking Workshop: Enhancing the Mental Health Patient Journey

From Arcadis’s experience of working in the mental health sector over the past 25 years, our team have engaged with staff, service users and stakeholders with lived experience, extensively, within every project we have worked on together, as an integral part of the design team. We are applying this collective experience to this workshop, which… Read more »

Co-producing Urgent and Emergency Care Environments: Insights From The MHED Community of Practice

The development of a new Urgent and Emergency Care (UEC) model requires a fundamental shift in both clinical pathways and spatial design. In the absence of established guidance for this emerging typology, the project adopted an extended programme of stakeholder engagement and co-production to generate evidence, test assumptions and inform decision-making. Early design development was… Read more »

Co-Designing Digital Trust: Lessons from Developing a Privacy-Preserving Behavioural Framework for Mental-Health Technology

Digital technologies can support recovery and wellbeing, but they also risk eroding trust when users feel monitored rather than understood. This presentation shares practice-based learning from a collaborative project that explored how behavioural analytics can be used to promote emotional safety rather than surveillance. Working through IdeaChef CIC’s social-innovation programme, a multidisciplinary team of designers,… Read more »