BOY'S DOn't CRY
This project began with a triptych of posters exploring men’s mental health to prompt and define the starting point of my personal and political project. This adaptive re-use project explores how clinical and non-clinical environments in Rochdale effect men opening up or speaking about their mental health encouraging social, cultural and political exchanges between men in the local and wider community. Using an existing factory, my scheme inhabits the space based upon a “box-in-a-box” concept: modules fill the factory shell, hosting a series of men’s mental health charities. As well as introducing employment back into the site by the introduction of a makerspace of mental health. With the aim of the users designing and building mental health interventions/pop-up instillations, exploring the alternative ways of non-clinical facilities to help support the wider community, by moving the interventions around the country. Educational facilities are also included connecting young boys from the schools nearby.
