Background
Increasing empirical evidence has come to light to support mental health patients' claims that sensory insensitivity or deprivation in the interior spaces of mental health treatment facilities is detrimental to their recovery.
Inappropriate or insufficient stimulation to the senses of touch, sight, sound, smell and taste, with little scope for adaptability or personalisation, has been said to limit creativity and potentially to suppress self-expression - the sense of identity one must retain to move into balance and stay well.
Social Fabric draws on these lessons from therapeutic settings and seeks to consider new ways of measuring and supporting wellness and mainstream psychological wellbeing through spatial design. We believe that by incorporating flexible, appropriate, humane and responsive stimulation of all five senses into the design of products and spaces, we can promote the peace and self-expression we all need to live in mental comfort.
Through a series of Social Fabric events between April and June 2016, TYMO set out to test the impact of multi-sensory stimulation and design on mood, posing wider questions about what room design is really for, while providing joyful, positive and mentally comfortable experiences.
In 2017 Social Fabric mounted a public multi-sensory experience to encourage a wider audience, including design practitioners, to raise the level and pace of discourse around the application of multi-sensory theories and technologies in design. Future events aim to collect data to test the impact and effectiveness of specific design interventions on mental health.
Additional partners and collaborators working in design, wellbeing, technology, art and academia are welcomed. To get involved, please contact tyler@tymolondon.com
Inappropriate or insufficient stimulation to the senses of touch, sight, sound, smell and taste, with little scope for adaptability or personalisation, has been said to limit creativity and potentially to suppress self-expression - the sense of identity one must retain to move into balance and stay well.
Social Fabric draws on these lessons from therapeutic settings and seeks to consider new ways of measuring and supporting wellness and mainstream psychological wellbeing through spatial design. We believe that by incorporating flexible, appropriate, humane and responsive stimulation of all five senses into the design of products and spaces, we can promote the peace and self-expression we all need to live in mental comfort.
Through a series of Social Fabric events between April and June 2016, TYMO set out to test the impact of multi-sensory stimulation and design on mood, posing wider questions about what room design is really for, while providing joyful, positive and mentally comfortable experiences.
In 2017 Social Fabric mounted a public multi-sensory experience to encourage a wider audience, including design practitioners, to raise the level and pace of discourse around the application of multi-sensory theories and technologies in design. Future events aim to collect data to test the impact and effectiveness of specific design interventions on mental health.
Additional partners and collaborators working in design, wellbeing, technology, art and academia are welcomed. To get involved, please contact tyler@tymolondon.com