16 Beyond the Studio | Professional Development ‘hands-on skills’ in both medicine and architecture. These included: asking groups to create word-clouds of what co-production meant to them, imagemapping emotional responses on to different sites, and representing in modelling clay what an ideal mental healthcare space should smell, feel, sound and taste like. Originally delivered online, in February this year with the government relaxing restrictions, we took the decision to hold the design workshop ‘in person’ spreading the students across the architecture studios and P3. The mapping of an online pedagogy back into real space was challenging. For the medical students it meant a day spent in a ‘studio environment’ – for most of them an unfamiliar type of teaching space – while for architecture students it was an oppor tunity for a more hands-on experience including physical model making. Exhausting, but much more stimulating, the delivery of the workshop in person required staff to accept losing some control of the timetable and the outputs, as after two years of lockdown the 64 groups of students literally took matters into their own hands. Mental Health, Design and Wellbeing: A co-design workshop in two parts THIS WAS THE second year the School of Architecture + Cities has worked with the Medical School at Imperial College London to explore the relationship between design, mental health and wellbeing. The collaboration includes 650 students from across six courses namely: BSc Medicine, BA Architecture, BA Interior Architecture, BSc Architectural Technology, BSc Architecture & Environmental Design and the Master of Architecture, as well as 40+ members of staff. The project comprised of two one-day co-design workshops, during which 64 cross-disciplinary groups of students reflect on four defined mental health conditions to identify problems and propose solutions for the design of four existing NHS mental healthcare sites. The terms co-design, co-creation, and coproduction all describe an open design process that empowers a wide range of stakeholders to make a creative contribution to the formulation and solution of a problem. With this in mind, the workshops were delivered as a series of tangible tasks that stimulated discussion and restated the impor tance of With thanks to: Harry Charrington, Sadie Morgan and all our ‘co-creators’ at Imperial College in par ticular Project Leads;Wing May Kong and Fiorenza Shepherd Photographs: Chamitha Mudihanselage Project Leads: Ro Spankie, Alastair Blyth Workshop Hosts: Diony Kypraiou,Tabatha Mills, Jane Tankard, JulianWilliams Design Tutors: Alessandro Ayuso, Susanne Bauer, Stefania Boccaletti, Kir ti Durrelle, Elantha Evans, Riccardo Fregoni, Maria Kramer, Will McLean, Paresh Parmer, AdamThwaites, Paolo Zaide PALS: Andrea Antoniou,William Beecham,Wajiha Dadabhoy, Jennifer DiezJones, Mar ta Dziuba, Aleksandra Gutkowska, Akmaral Khassen, Unnati Mankad, Rhea McCar thy, Lavinia Pennino, Lauren Polesel, Lilla Porkolab, Arshana Rajaratnam, Hannah Smith, Anastasia Tsamitrou, Linda Velika University of Westminster Staff
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