DESIGN & ENVIRONMENT FOR MENTAL WELLNESS

In this final round table of the LFA series, we’ll imagine a regenerative approach to mental health - what does it take to build relationships and environments that heal rather than harm - at national and local scale - both for neighbourhoods and individuals - for those providing care, for those being cared for, and for all members of communities.

What part does design of cities, buildings and landscapes play in supporting individual and collective wellbeing? How can nurturing overlaps and symbiosis between the well and unwell; professionals and volunteers, old and young; between enterprise and care, care homes and communities, society and the natural world, be part of pressing RESET for the UK’s mental health infrastructure?

Join our panel to explore how crafting spaces and places can help us be well and be ourselves. How the built environment can lead to powering a shift in values towards being more, rather than having more? And how living and healing in places which enrich rather than ignore environments can make us healthier and happier at a personal, local and national level?

Speakers:
- Chair: Timothy Makower
- Chris Shaw - Architect MAP (Medical Architecture)
- John Whitehead - Director, Bottega Project
- Dr Annja Neumann, Cross-disciplinary Artist-Researcher at the University of Cambridge, Senior Research Fellow of Magdalene College and Research Consultant in Creative Strategy & Policy
- Rafael Marks - Principle - Perkins & Will