Keynote: HMP Stirling – Therapeutic and Trauma Informed Approaches to Custodial Design

Synopsis

HMP & YOI Stirling is a groundbreaking new custodial facility for Women in custody in Scotland. The design is heavily focus on mental wellbeing and a trauma informed approach to design, creating a therapeutic environment with landscape and nature at its core. The presentation seeks to explain the ethos behind the concept design, how the brief has been developed with input from key stakeholders throughout the design process, how the design of the completed facility creates a wellbeing focused environment, and attempts to offer some anecdotal evidence on positive outcomes from occupants and the wider community.