Our project example is an existing Mental Health Unit, with its location, in relation to the rest of the hospital campus, perpetuating a stigma around the service within the local community. The emotional design brief for the project is then completed and presented as a report after a qualitative analysis of the interviews is complete. This process can involve hundreds of individuals through a series of individual and group interviews or online polls with patients, carers, community and staff. ![]() This is currently being demonstrated through several mental health projects across Australia with the local health entities adopting a co-design process. Patient lounge, photograph by Tyrone Branigan. These briefs provide qualitative research to inform design that actively reduces negative emotions and promotes positive emotions through consideration of space, form, light, colour and sound. The lived experience has always been a part of the design process however, it is now becoming formalised through the emotional design briefs. ![]() Contemporary models, however, aim to enhance the user journey by balancing a safe, welcoming, healing, therapeutic environment that is comfortable and visually appealing, with essential clinical requirements to treat a range of symptoms and conditions. Traditionally, mental health buildings are institutional in look and feel, buildings people do not necessarily inhabit by choice. ![]() The importance of mental health accommodation within the Australian healthcare system is more apparent than ever before, with investment in facilities increasing. This article first appeared in Indesign magazine’s The State Of Wellbeing Issue which can be purchased here.ĭuring their lifetime almost half of Australia’s population will suffer from a mental health disorder.
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