7 Jan, 2025
Pineapple’s Lotte Bailey hosts a discussion about the influence of the lived experience on design in behavioral and mental health.
People are sharing valuable perspectives, informing the design of mental health spaces using their own experiences and recovery journeys to help designers create more effective and compassionate solutions for the built environment.
This approach ensures that interventions are thoughtful, sensitively approached and aligned with the needs and preferences of patients and care providers. Lived experience can inform the design of everything from built environments and therapeutic interventions to digital tools and service delivery models. By valuing the wisdom of those who have been through it, the field of behavioral and mental health design is moving towards a more equitable and empowering approach to care.
Join Lotte with guests Hannah Chamberlain and Jo Baudin as they chat about the influence of the lived experience: common misconceptions, new challenges and ensuring inclusivity in the behavioral health sector.
Hannah is a mental health campaigner, activist and entrepreneur who has recently finished her stint as the UK’s Design in Mental Health Network CEO. Her writing, enterprise leadership, films and storytelling on the subject of mental and behavioral health and identity have led to recognition; winning the Stelios Foundation Disabled Entrepreneur Award, featuring on BBC and in the Evening Standard, and being mentioned by the minister for Disabled People in the UK Houses of Parliament. She has been involved with the Design in Mental Health community since 2008.
With a BSc degree in Interior Architecture and experience in the UK commercial design and build industry, Jo works in Public Health Design and Quality Improvement to adapt and change the built environment for the better. Using her professional skills combined with service user lived experience, Jo advises organizations and charities such as: London NHS Mental Health Trusts; The Royal Collage of Psychiatrists; the Oxford Health BRC; the Design in Mental Health Network and mental health arts charity Hospital Rooms.
