Symposia
J. Irwin Miller Symposium
Beyond the Visible: Space, Place, and Power in Mental Health (POSTPONED)
All Yale School of Architecture events are suspended through April 5, 2020.
This symposium seeks to make designers and architects aware of their capacity to improve access to and perceptions of mental health. One-quarter of the global population will suffer from mental illness at some stage of life. The built environment—the setting where we live and work—therefore becomes an urgent site for addressing mental health. The rise of urban inequality has huge impacts on access to mental health services. This symposium will explore issues of mental health at three scales: the hospital, the home, and the city. This inaugural symposium is part of a long-term initiative at Yale, building on the work of the Yale Mental Health Colloquium which took place in 2019. In engaging an interdisciplinary team to explore these themes, we can begin to understand how practitioners influence design methods for mental health in the built environment.
Symposium program
Thursday, March 26 Evening Session, 6:30pm Keynote Address Mindy Thompson Fullilove The New School “The Social and Ecological Aspects of the Psychology of Place”
Friday, March 27 Morning Session, 10:00am Christopher Payne Artist Introduction The Hospital Christian Karlsson Karlsson Arkitekter Kelechi Ubozoh Mental Health Advocate Martin Voss PSYCH.RAUM Jason Danziger PSYCH.RAUM Afternoon Session, 2:00pm The Home Alison Cunningham Yale University Earle Chambers Albert Einstein College of Medicine Sam Tsemberis Pathways Housing First Hannah Hull Artist The City Nupur Chaudhury New York State Health Foundation Bryan Lee Colloquate Molly Kaufman University of Orange Reflections
Saturday, March 28 Morning Session, 10:00am Workshop: Between Disciplines, Future Infrastructures of Mental Health Introductions Collaborations Joel Sanders Yale University Antonia Caba (Yale University) Judith Lichtman (Yale University)
Mind the Gaps: An Interdisciplinary Toolbox Moderated by: Jason Danziger PSYCH.RAUM Martin Voss PSYCH.RAUM