Healing Spaces: Mental Health Design Dialogue
Join Pineapple hosts as they discuss the latest mental health design matters with industry experts, sharing perspectives and insights on the built environment and the challenges and opportunities in creating healing spaces for patients, staff and the wider communities.
Podcasting since 2024 • 7 episodes
Healing Spaces: Mental Health Design Dialogue
Latest Episodes
Behavioral Health in Rural and Frontier Systems: Balancing Design, Safety, and Equity
Pineapple’s Michelle Blackie explores behavioral health in rural and frontier systems in the United States, places where critical access hospitals often serve as the only point of care for miles in every direction. In these settings, a single h...
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Episode 7
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27:53
The Healing Blueprint: How River Edge Reimagined Behavioural Health
Pineapple’s Daniel White hosts an exploration of the River Edge Behavioral Health Center: a place where architecture and empathy work hand in hand, and the built environment becomes an agent of healing within the community. With gue...
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Episode 6
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43:00
Designing for Dignity: A Human-Centered Approach to Behavioral Health Spaces
Pineapple’s Michelle Blackie hosts a discussion around how thoughtful design of therapeutic spaces can create more compassionate, effective, and healing environments.How do we move toward a more holistic, human-centered approach to treat...
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Episode 5
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38:01
Assisting De-escalation Through Design
Pineapple’s Daniel White hosts a discussion exploring how design impacts mental health spaces, with a focus on de-escalation in creating safe, therapeutic environments.The design of EmPATH (Emergency Psychiatric Assessment Treatment &...
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Episode 4
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43:14
The Influence of the Lived Experience on Design in Mental Health
Pineapple’s Lotte Bailey hosts a discussion about the influence of the lived experience on design in mental health. People are sharing valuable perspectives, informing the design of mental health spaces using their own experiences a...
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Episode 3
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35:45
