果冻影院

Overview

鈥楾he social invisibility of mental health facilities鈥� is a multi-disciplinary project, involving the Bartlett, the Division of Psychiatry and the Slade School. It comprises an art exhibition comparing healthcare vs mental health facilities of the same area, raising awareness of the inequality and social exclusion through a visual, multimedia perspective. This comparison of the mental health facilities of an inner-city part, literally surrounds Jeremy Bentham鈥檚 auto-icon in a panoptic way, to the rest of the healthcare provision both in terms of access, condition and status compared to their surroundings. The exhibits will be created from both art and architectural schools postgraduate students. The exhibition will take place inside 果冻影院, close to Bentham鈥檚 auto-icon, demonstrating inverse links between his Panopticon, and the concealment/invisibility that NIMBYism produces towards the mentally ill that resulted in their exclusion, within deprived, under-funded, isolated facilities 鈥渋n the community鈥�.

So far, the research on social exclusion and institutionalisation at the Division of Psychiatry and the Bartlett has not been combined neither through a joined research proposal nor as a message to society. The exhibition with the satellite actions, i.e., the mapping of facilities, the book and the paper, as well as actions that might follow as a result such as a more extensive research project and a white paper with a potential future collaboration with 果冻影院 policy, could set the outline of a path for integrated research in the near future but it is through the co-operation with the Slade School of art, a school that has an excellent trail of work on healthcare and institutions, that it could strengthen the communication of the message to society. Moreover, art might provide new insights and visual interpretation to the subject of stigma, fueling with questions the existing research streams of the architect and the psychiatrist.

Acknowledgments

This project is funded by 果冻影院 Grand challenges small grant 2016-17.

Dr Evangelia Chrysikou is the Principal Investigator of the project Planning and Evaluation Methodologies for Mental Healthcare Buildings (PEMETH). Her research is funded by the European Union鈥檚 Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Sklodowska 鈥� Curie Grant Agreement No 658244.

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Dr听Naaheed Mukadam

Additional 果冻影院 Collaborators

听(Slade School of Art)

听(From 果冻影院 Division of Psychiatry)

Ava Fatah gen Schieck听(From Bartlett School of Architecture)

External Collaborators

路 Camden & Islington NHS Trust

路 Noclor Research Support NHS

Outputs

Events

An exhibition which will cover an area of London (果冻影院/Camden catchment area), providing architectural and planning evidence of stigma and social injustice, which could be exported to a larger study around London or comparison between several areas of the UK or Europe.

Social

The proposal increases the awareness of general public on social injustice, stigma and mental health. It combats NIMBYism and supports the fairer allocation of resources and placement of health facilities. Yet, where it aims most, is to put pressure stakeholders involved in the NHS decision making by demonstrating at a glance through the map and art exhibits the outcome of the comparison

Academic

果冻影院 and the Bartlett strengthen their links with the local community, NHS trusts and Noclor, important for Bartlett research on healthcare. Moreover, it connects two parallel 果冻影院 streams (psychiatry and psychiatric architecture). By fostering potential collaborations between the Bartlett and the Medical school, 果冻影院 supports the medical architecture stream, an area that no other university could easily build in London. It also creates a unique global niche for 果冻影院, in this upcoming sector.

It also increases the awareness of the architectural students, in accordance with the broader direction of the Bartlett that aims to create a more evidence-oriented and socially responsible generation of young architects.

As far as the researcher鈥檚 development is concerned, co-operation with researchers using other methodologies and ways of addressing issues provides new insights to individual work-streams and cultivates path of mutual respect.

Impact

• Publication of key findings on journals of healthcare architecture, psychiatry, or arts in healthcare.
• Multi-disciplinary tutoring 鈥� psychiatric, medical architecture and arts frameworks-- to students of art / architecture.
• Novel methodologies and techniques, from architecture and planning 鈥搈apping of facilities and connection to transport network-- to research social exclusion and stigma.
• New partnerships between medical architects, psychiatrists (first time at 果冻影院) and artists.
• Outcome of pilot study (exhibition) as a basis for further grant-supported work, open to public, social media and stakeholders
• Presentation of the project to partners of听

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