“Mental Health, Design, and Wellbeing; A Co-design Workshop” one of the finalists for 2023 Green Grown Awards UK & Ireland

The Mental Health, Design, and Wellbeing: Co-design Workshop, led by the Assistant Head of School and the ArCCAT lead Dr Ro Spankie, was one of the three projects from the University of Westminster that were named finalists for prestigious 2023 Green Grown Awards UK & Ireland.

Dr Spankie said: “All of us involved are delighted the Co-Production Workshop has been selected as a Green Gown finalist under the category of Tomorrow’s Employers as the development of complex transferable skills relevant to future practice is exactly what the workshop sets out to do. It does this by offering students a unique, immersive and experiential learning experience that challenges the ‘conventional’ pedagogy of designer-client / expert-user, by putting forward the notion of the ‘experts by experience’.”

University of Westminster website
Video submission by the Mental Health, Design and Wellbeing; A Co-design Workshop group

To read more about this and other projects please visit here.

Practices of Care: Collaboration between University of Westminster and Imperial College | Friday, June 11, 2021 at 17:00 (BST)

Please join us on 11 JUNE 21 @ 5 pm (UK time) for an online panel discussion on Practices of Care, reflecting on a Co-Production Workshop held between the University of Westminster and Imperial College London.

How does one educate a professional – an architect, a doctor? Competencies are one thing, but what about qualities such as ethics, or duty of care? Is a key skill of being an architect or a clinician the ability to listen to a variety of stakeholders and work collaboratively?

Practices of Care bring together a panel of architects and doctors, to discuss what it might mean to be a caring professional and what the two disciplines can learn from each other.

The event is part of the London Festival of Architecture.

Please register using the Eventbrite link below. Details on how to attend will be provided on Eventbrite.

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/practices-of-care-tickets-154377857327

More details on the Workshop and an Online Exhibition of student posters are available on OPEN Studio

http://www.openstudiowestminster.org/co-production-2020-2021/