Arts and Creative Placemaking Registration, Thu 18 May 2023 at 13:00 | Eventbrite
We will be joined by
Hannah Waterson, NCCH Research and Policy Manager National Centre for Creative Health
Louise Nolan, Citizen, Artist, Designer, Maker, Facilitator
Dr Rachel Turnbull, Healthy Happy Places. Elijah Young, Co-Director of Mustard Stories Arts CIC. Eilis McGowan, Co-Director of Mustard Stories Arts CIC
Sara Cooper, Artist
Who is it for? Anyone with an interest in this topic is welcome to attend. NHS staff, public health, planners, architects, designers, artists and creatives.
Why attend? If you are curious about how the built environment, health expertise and artistic input can come together, to design spaces through art and creativity that have a positive impact on mental health and wellbeing.
Join the conversation: #HealthyHappyPlaces
The event will be held on MS Teams. Please check that you can access Teams prior to the event. Joining information will be circulated in the run up to the event.
‘A Space for Conversation’ [OPTIONAL SESSION] – Following the webinar, the Healthy Happy Places team will stay on the call and be available for an additional half an hour where you can join us for a cuppa and chat. This is to provide an opportunity to share thoughts and any further questions related to the webinar content. Not mandatory but everyone welcome!
Contribute to our online whiteboard and share your examples of art and creativity in your spaces and places, access code: EHXFLH
Welcome
Hannah Waterson, NCCH Research and Policy Manager National Centre for Creative Health
Creative Health - Why Creativity is Good for our Health and Wellbeing
Hannah will provide an overview of the ways in which creative approaches and activities can improve our health and wellbeing, and the evidence that demonstrates this. Creative health can have benefits for individuals and in communities and can influence the wider determinants of health - the environments in which we live, grow, work and age.
She will introduce the work that NCCH is doing to embed creative health into health, social care and wider systems, and how the current NCCH and APPG on Arts, Health and Wellbeing Creative Health Review aims to influence policy.
Louise Nolan, Citizen, Artist, Designer, Maker, Facilitator
One tile at a time
Louise will be sharing her journey of creating ceramic art and heritage alongside reunited communities at Stockingfield Bridge, Maryhill in the North of Glasgow. Looking at what her experience has been as an artist as part of the Glasgow City wide Artists in Communities programme run by Glasgow Life and Glasgow City Council, living and working in the community, and the history of the project from 2018 and through covid, Creative Communities: Artists in Residence. Louise will also be looking at the community development opportunities that arose and how artists have been able to navigate their way between diverse communities, private and public sector partners, to work on this emergent permanent public art and transport infrastructure project.
Dr Rachel Turnbull, Healthy Happy Places. Elijah Young, Co-Director of Mustard Stories Arts CIC. Eilis McGowan, Co-Director of Mustard Stories Arts CIC
Places of Sanctuary – Healthy Happy Places in North Tyneside
Hear about the Healthy Happy Places approach in action in North Tyneside, with insights and experiences shared from Mustard Stories Arts CIC on their recent commission with us using creative writing and animation.
Sara Cooper, Artist
Art, Process, Place: case studies North East
Questions and Close
Hannah Waterson, NCCH Research and Policy Manager
Hannah is Research and Policy Manager at the National Centre for Creative Health. In this role she aims to promote evidence-based policy and practice around creative health, working towards NCCH's mission to advance good practice and research, inform policy and promote collaboration, creating the conditions for creative health to be integral to health and social care systems.
Louise Nolan (Make it Glasgow CIC)
Louise Nolan is a ceramicist and the local artist in residence for Maryhill. Her practice centres around community networks and collaborative design led practice. Louise is passionate about leadership and building vibrant and creative places to live, work and play. With an MPhil in Art and Design in organisational contexts from Glasgow School of Art focusing on visual arts in youth work settings, and over 25 years' experience working in communities facilitating experiential learning, Louise believes in working alongside local people and communities to tackle the consequences of austerity, inequality and poverty.
Elijah Young, Co-Director of Mustard Stories Arts CIC. Eilis McGowan, Co-Director of Mustard Stories Arts CIC
Mustard Stories Arts is a community interest company based in Tyne & Wear. Our company ethos is all about storytelling for social change; working with communities to provide a platform to tell untold stories through all creative art forms.
Sara Cooper, Artist
Sara’s practice encompasses drawings, print, film and objects; often developed collaboratively in response to natural/urban environments and associated social histories. In 2017, she gained a post-graduate award in Collaborative Practice where her research addressed how artists engage with landscapes and ecology.
Her work has been represented in group shows including: Architectures of Displacement, Tate Exchange, Liverpool (2017), #Untitled10, Bowes Museum, Barnard Castle (2019) and Fragile Earth: weeds, seeds & plastic crust, mima, Middlesbrough (2019).
She has worked extensively in arts and engagement; leading, advising on and participating in a range of initiatives, including residencies, community projects, research and commissions within the publicly funded arts, heritage and architecture sectors.
Recent work has included ‘Re-imagining Pandon Dene’, a wildflower meadow co-created with Shieldfield residents, #YourPublicRealm working with communities on long-term planning for public space in Middlesbrough and developing artist commissions with Healthy Happy Places in North Tyneside
This event is part of a series of webinars being delivered by the Healthy Happy Places programme. The webinars will be exploring a range of topics which will showcase perspectives from mental health, architecture and urban planning to explore why the built and designed environment matters when thinking about mental health and wellbeing. The design of buildings and the shaping of public spaces in the places we live, work and play contribute to our lived experiences, how we feel, and have the power to promote or stifle wellbeing and recovery.
The Healthy Happy Places programme is funded by the Academic Health Science Network for the North East and North Cumbria (AHSN NENC) and the Integrated Care System for the North East and North Cumbria (ICS NENC) to develop a multi-sector approach for supporting and creating mental health and wellbeing through the built environment. Sign up to receive information about the programme.
If you’d like more information or would like to chat about the Healthy Happy Places programme we’d love to hear from you. Please contact rachel.turnbull@ahsn-nenc.org.uk
Timothy Crawshaw MA MRTPI FRSA was the 2022 President of Royal Town Planning Institute (RTPI), working as an International Planning and Development Consultant in the areas of urban design, planning, green infrastructure, energy efficiency and sustainable transport. With experience in Eastern Europe, Africa and the Middle East, alongside an expanding UK practice, he has a specific interest in the role of the nature-based approaches to addressing the climate emergency, alongside improving health and wellbeing outcomes and tackling inequality.
Timothy is an experienced lecturer, trainer and facilitator with a passion for community development, and he continues to champion the role of planning as a key part of the solution to the challenges of our times. Timothy is currently the Chair of the Tees Valley Nature Partnership.
Dr Rachel Turnbull is a Programme Manager for the Academic Health Science Network North east and North Cumbria, who works in healthcare innovation leading regional projects in the North-East of England. Originally qualified as a clinician with a Doctorate in Clinical Psychology, Rachel has developed more than 12 years’ experience in project management and service improvement roles across the North-East and has recently completed a further degree in urban planning and architecture. Her interests lie in the connections between wellbeing and urban design and how to support the creation of healthy, happy, fun places where people and communities can thrive.
Holly Hare is a Mental Health Project Coordinator within the Northeast and North Cumbria Integrated Care System working on a wide range of different projects at system level. Holly has a research background obtained in Sociology and Criminology (Royal Holloway University of London), qualified to master’s level (Durham University), as well as a specialist qualification in qualitative methods from the University of Amsterdam. Holly is also pursuing a PhD looking at older people’s mental health and social prescribing practice (Northumbria University). Holly has experience working with service users in third sector mental health and is passionate about delivering excellent research projects and implementing their outcomes into the real world.
During the session
We will keep participants muted whilst we are presenting. This avoids distracting our speakers and also reduces sensory stimulation which is important for some people. However, if you wish to ask a question you can do this by adding it in the chat box. Please feel free to turn your camera on and off as you need to. If you need it off the whole time, that is totally fine.
If you need a break at any time during the session then please leave the meeting and re-join again when you feel ready.
Accessibility
Information on accessibility features in Teams can be found here: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/accessibility-support-for-microsoft-teams-d12ee53f-d15f-445e-be8d-f0ba2c5ee68f and you can contact us with any other accessibility questions.
holly.fillingham1@nhs.net
