Does ‘Good’ Design in Professional Practice Translate to Feeling Good From a Lived Experience Perspective? A dialogue with Design, Lived Experience and Psychology

Synopsis

In this session, Katharine Lazenby (DIMH and Expert by Experience) and Paula Reavey (Professor of Psychology & Mental Health) will discuss the findings of a recent systematic review conducted by the research and education workstream members of DIMH. The discussion will be structured in terms of how or whether academic findings successfully translate into lived experience (LE). Although the systematic review sets out to examine how the scientific/academic literature defines ‘good’ design in mental health environments, one of the key focus areas to be discussed in this presentation is whether good design makes people ‘feel’ better, and if so, in what ways? And according to whom?

Katharine and Paula will provide an open dialogue rather than presentation monologue: Paula will make a statement from the academic work and Katharine will ask a question of this from the LE perspective opening up a conversation and set of provocations related to ‘knowing’ good design and its success in capturing ‘feeling’.