Mental Health and the Built Environment

Historical and contemporary perspectives on mental health and the built environment

November & December 2020

Five online sessions of guest talks culminating in a round table discussion that focused on the complex and multi-faceted connections between mental health and the built environment.

Madness and Architecture: An Archaeology of Lunatic Asylums

Dr Burçak Özlüdil, Associate Dean, Albert Dorman Honors College, New Jersey Institute of Technology (USA)

Social Psychiatry and Preventing Mental Illness in the USA, 1939-1980

Professor Matthew Smith, University of Strathclyde

Nurture and Nature – Approaches to Mental Health Design

Karen Flatt, Architect & Studio Director, IBI Group

Architecture and heritage for mental health in the community

Stacey Charlesworth, Design Director, ADT Workplace Chris Pickup, Studio Associate Director, IBI Group

Round table: Mental health for all: the role of architecture, design and place