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The annual MinD workshop experiments with collaborative and participatory approaches through co-design activities. The projects that act on two aspects of design: on the one hand the project as a tool for transformation in an improving context, on the other the creative process as a system of relationships that translate into practices of social inclusion and rehabilitation. Through the direct participation of students and people followed by mental health services, MinD is the place to experiment and verify the clinical results of a design culture understood as a creative process. The participatory dimension of design makes it an effective tool for social inclusion, a generator of relationships aimed at enhancing the other, and a valuable ally of the rehabilitation strategy.
Since 2014, MinD has been holding its main workshop in Turin. Every year they are welcome:
- around 50 students from all over Italy, with a background in design-related fields and in human and social sciences (Design, Architecture, Psychology, Psychiatric Rehabilitation Techniques, Anthropology, Educational Sciences);
- people supported by Mental Health Services;
- healthcare professional;
- designers.
Themes: Culture and...
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For the last Workshopo on 2022 "Building Communities" uses the transformative action of design on the context to plan together an inclusive society, with objectives of mutual aid and a sense of belonging. To feel part of a place means to be seen, and therefore, to exist. In this way, the concept of care extends to a cultural and social action which, combined with the clinical setting, acts in response to the mental well-being of several subjects.