Dust 2016: Architecture and mental health

Dust 2016: Architecture and mental health

Author: Scottish Mental Health Arts Festival May 13, 2016 Duration: 1:04:31
The Dust of Everyday Life is an annual conference exploring the arts, mental health and social justice, programmed by the Mental Health Foundation and See Me, Scotland's campaign to end mental health discrimination. This session from Dust 2016, at the CCA in Glasgow on Wednesday 20 April, asked the question: how does the built environment around us impact on our health, and how should architects take this into consideration? The panel consisted of architect Richard Murphy (whose firm Richard Murphy Architects has designed two residential dementia homes and an 80 bed mental health facility); architectAndy Law of Reiach and Hall architects (responsible for the award-winning Maggie’s Centre in Lanarkshire); and Angus Farquhar of the groundbreaking arts organisation NVA (whose projects include the Hidden Gardens at Tramway in Glasgow). The event was chaired by Jackie Sands, Senior, Arts and Health, NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde, and presented in partnership with Festival of Architecture 2016.

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Author: Language: English Episodes: 100

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Podcast Episodes
Short - Ruth D [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 5:22
Short - Ruth D by Scottish Mental Health Arts Festival
Clay - Anne [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 3:29
Clay - Anne by Scottish Mental Health Arts Festival
Circus Skills - Isabel [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:15
Circus Skills - Isabel by Scottish Mental Health Arts Festival
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Duration: 43:51
This is Reclaiming Our Heritage, a Mental Health Foundation podcast inspired by its two-year oral history project supported by the National Lottery Heritage Fund. The project’s aim is to record and preserve the spoken te…
Reclaiming Our Heritage: Mental Health Over the Generations [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 44:18
Content Note: Features discussion of suicidal ideation. Reclaiming Our Heritage is a Mental Health Foundation podcast inspired by its two-year oral history project supported by the National Lottery Heritage Fund. The pro…
Reclaiming Our Heritage: The Impact of Art on Mental Health [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 43:57
This is Reclaiming Our Heritage, a Mental Health Foundation podcast inspired by its two-year oral history project supported by the National Lottery Heritage Fund. The project’s aim is to record and preserve the spoken te…
How Do We Talk About Suicide? A Mental Health Arts Network gathering. [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:00:38
Art can be a powerful way of addressing the difficult subject of suicide, but how can it be done without sensationalising, stigmatising or triggering? This is a recording of a discussion event that took place on 23 Febru…